This book presents theories and case studies for corporations in developed nations, including Japan, for designing strategies to maximize opportunities and minimize threats in business expansion into developing nations. The case studies featured here focus on Asia, including China and India, and...

<title>Abstract</title> This study takes a holistic approach to understanding the diffusion of IPTV services by combining the adoption-diffusion model and the use-diffusion model of innovation. IPTV service, a leading converged application that couples media content with telecom services, was recently launched...

Much research has been carried out on the accumulation and effective use of knowledge as a companyspecific form of intellectual property. However, insufficient attention has been given to research focusing on the effects of micro-level knowledge absorption and its effective use. In this paper,...

This paper studies how offering patents as collateral　influences the decisions of Chinese lenders and determines features that make patents more acceptable as collateral. We develop a lending model incorporating a borrower’s likelihood of default, the value of patents offered as collateral,...

This paper presents the typology of overseas R&D, by interacting the direction of knowledge flow between home and host countries and the distinction of “research” and “development”, namely (1) technology driven, (2) cost driven, (3) market driven, (4) policy driven, (5) production driven...