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Innovation in Japan

Author: Akira Gotō; Hiroyuki Odagiri
Publisher: Oxford, England ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1997.
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In this age of high technology, Japan's success in continuous improvement and innovation in key industries, ranging from steel and automobiles to electronics, has been spectacular, and the unique institutional arrangements that have supported this success have attracted wide attention. Yet, with only a few exceptions, the discussion of Japan's innovation system has tended to be anecdotal. It is the consequent need
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Innovation in Japan.
Oxford, England ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1997
(OCoLC)645837701
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Akira Gotō; Hiroyuki Odagiri
ISBN: 0198289855 9780198289852
OCLC Number: 35017783
Description: viii, 311 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Technological importation in Japan / Ryuhei Wakasugi --
Diffusion of the systemic approach in Japan : guage and industrial standards / Yasunori Baba, Shoichi Kuroda, and Hiroshi Yoshiki --
The dynamic aspect of product development capabilities : an international comparison in the automobile industry / Takahiro Fujimoto --
Production technology and productivity growth in the Japanese electrical machinery industry / Kazuyuki Suzuki --
Technological innovation and competition in the Japanese semiconductor industry / Yui Kimura --
The innovation process in the Japanese steel industry / Seiichiro Yonekura --Intrafirm transfers of engineers in Japan / Ken Kusunoki and Tsuyoshi Numagami --
Overseas R&D activities of Japanese firms / Hiroyuki Odagiri and Hideto Yasuda --
The patent system and R&D in Japan / Yosuke Okada and Shigeru Asaba --
Co-operative research in Japanese manufacturing industries / Akira Goto --
Technological progress in Japanese environmental problems / Tsutomu Miyagawa --
The role of the Japanese higher education system in relation to industry / Shinichi Yamamoto.
Responsibility: edited by Akira Goto, Hiroyuki Odagiri.
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Abstract:

In this age of high technology, Japan's success in continuous improvement and innovation in key industries, ranging from steel and automobiles to electronics, has been spectacular, and the unique institutional arrangements that have supported this success have attracted wide attention. Yet, with only a few exceptions, the discussion of Japan's innovation system has tended to be anecdotal. It is the consequent need for a more solid analysis based on fact that this book fills.

The chapters in this volume investigate Japan's current innovation system through empirical, mostly quantitative, research. They cover a wide range of subjects, including technology importation, industrial standards, product development, R&D personnel management, overseas R&D, and higher education. In addition, detailed industry studies cover the automobile, electrical machinery, semiconductor, and steel sectors. The authors, the leading Japanese scholars on these subjects, reveal the rich and complex nature of the Japanese innovation system, and describe in detail its strengths and weaknesses.

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