agriculture through building more collaborative agricultural innovation system. …In Japan, agriculture has been treated differently from other parts of the national economy. However, policy needs to … evolve with new agricultural structures and the global trend towards more integrated value chains, enabling innovation and …

Analysing the USA and Japan from the late 19th century to the present day, the book provides an accessible synthesis of …1. Introduction -- 2. Organizational innovations from the 1860s in the USA and Japan -- 3. The role of OIs in the … the USA and Japan -- 7. Empirical evidence on the links between industrial sectoral growth and the Lean Production System …