The innovation by an independence principle is a limit in Japanese firm today. The expectation for the open innovation that positively uses outside resources on business has risen in Japanese firm. In open innovation, the strategy that expands sharing information and using the resource from...

Deployment of broadband for everyone has become a major policy objective in many countries, including Japan and the U.S. Recently, the U.S. announced a National Broadband Plan which is aimed at providing 100 million households with access to 100 Mbps broadband services by 2020. The purpose of...

Recently social media such as Blog and SNS has been introducing by many firms for means of sharing information inside the firm, in particular to promote product and process innovation. This paper attempts to examine the relationship between social media and product innovation, and research...

This study aims to analyze the global mobile phones by examining the instruments stimulating the diffusion pattern. A rigorous demand model is estimated using global mobile telecommu-nications panel dataset comprised with 51 countries classified in order to World Bank income categories from...

This paper empirically analyzes the factors which determine the success of regional information policies. Based upon our field research on 36 local governments in Japan, we examine how each factor contributes to successful implementation of regional information policy by using the ordered probit...

We attempt to analyze empirically how and when industrial transformation took place in the Japanese machine tool industry. For estimation, the following variables are selected: (a) automobile production; (b) exports; (c) investment; and (d) GDP. Dummy variables are used to indicate the time when...

Large numbers of firms use social media for various business activities. Japanese firms, however, still less use it. This paper aims to clarify how social media is effective for business activities of Japanese firms. For this purpose, the followings are cleared: (i) whether social media use is...

Objectives: Currently it is said that investment in broadband deployment has already reached a ceiling (Atkinson, Noam, Shultz; 2010). However, the average diffusion rate of OECD is about 60%, and policy measures are required for further deployment including the National Broadband Plan of the...

Information technology has become a constant presence in contemporary life, infiltrating community, business and state affairs. This book discusses the uses and problems of IT in both developing and advanced countries, focusing on the ways in which IT changes society without neglecting the...