Managing Innovation in Japan (eBook)

The Role Institutions Play in Helping or Hindering how Companies Develop Technology

Chihiro Watanabe (Autor)

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2009 | 2009
XII, 247 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-89272-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book summarizes highlights of the investigation of 'An Elucidation of the Role of Institutional Systems in Characterizing Technology Development Trajectories - A Global Comparative Analysis of Manufacturing Technology and Information Te- nology in the Enhancement of Business Practice' supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scienti?c Research (S) by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology/Japan Society for Science Policy over the period 2002-2006. Background and objectives of the investigation are summarized as follows: (a) Japan ranks far below the level of the USA with respect to the development and utilization of information technology (IT) in the information society that emerged in the 1990s. (b) This can be attributed toa vicious cycle between Japan's non-elastic institutions, insuf?cient utilization of the potential bene?ts of IT, and economic stagnation. (c) The source of such a vicious cycle can be derived from the fundamental d- ferences of the characterizing process of technology between manufacturing technology (MT) and IT during their diffusion processes. This investigation - tempted to elucidate this mechanism. Noteworthy ?ndings obtained include: (a) MT has been developed largely by the supply side and its functionality is - tablished during the stage of its supply to the market. In contrast, IT is strongly driven by the demand side and its functionality is created through diffusion in a self-propagating way. This contrast can be clearly observed in the dramatic advancement of Japan's mobile phone industry in the late 1990s.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements 5
Contents 6
Chapter 1 Introduction 12
Chapter 2 Formation of IT Features Through Interaction with Institutional Systems: Empirical Evidence of Unique Epidemic Behavior 14
2.1 Introduction 14
2.2 Features of IT with Respect to Institutions 17
2.3 Implications 30
2.4 Conclusion 32
Appendix 1. Mathematical Development of Logistic Growth FunctionWithin a Dynamic Carrying Capacity 33
Appendix 2. Data Construction and Sources 35
Appendix 3. Mathematical Development of SCE 36
Chapter 3 Institutional Elasticity as a Significant Driver of IT Functionality Development 42
3.1 Introduction 42
3.2 Identification of IT Features with Respect to Institutions 44
3.3 Implications 60
3.4 Conclusion 61
Appendix. Data Construction and Sources 63
Appendix 1. TFP and IT Intensity 63
Appendix 2. Epidemic Behavior 63
References 66
Chapter 4 A Substitution Orbit Model of Competitive Innovations 68
4.1 Introduction 68
4.2 Substitution Orbit of Competitive Innovations 70
4.3 Lotka–Volterra Equations for Predator–Prey Systems 76
4.4 Orbit for Substitution: Policy Option in a Complex Orbit 84
4.5 Conclusion 89
References 90
Chapter 5 Impacts of Functionality Development on Dynamism Between Learning and Diffusion of Technology 92
5.1 Introduction 92
5.2 Dynamic Behavior of Learning Coefficient 94
5.3 Learning and Diffusion of Technology 99
5.4 Institutional Dynamism Leading to a Dynamic Interaction Between Learning, Diffusion and Spillover of Technology 107
References 113
Chapter 6 Diffusion, Substitution and Competition Dynamism Inside the ICT Market: A Case of Japan 114
6.1 Introduction 115
6.2 Methodology 118
6.3 Diffusion and Substitution Process of ICT in Japan: Empirical Analysis with Diffusion and Substitution Models 122
6.4 Conclusion 139
References 144
Chapter 7 The Co-Evolution Process of Technological Innovation: An Empirical Study of Mobile Phone Vendors and Telecommunication Service Operators in Japan 146
7.1 Introduction 147
7.2 A Market Dominated by High-End Handsets Due to High Learning Effect 152
7.3 A Market Dominated by Order-Made Models Due to Close Cooperation Between Vendors and Operators 158
7.4 A Virtuous Cycle Between Demand and Supply Sides Driving Japan’s Co-Evolutionary Mobile-Driven Innovations and Institutions 164
7.5 Conclusions 166
References 168
Chapter 8 Technopreneurial Trajectory Leading to Bipolarization of Entrepreneurial Contour in Japan’s Leading Firms 170
8.1 Introduction 170
8.2 Co-Evolutionary Dynamism Between Mobile Phone Driven Innovation and Institutional Systems: Cumulative Learning 172
8.3 Transformation in Entrepreneurial Contour in Leading Firms Facing the Transition to a Post Information Society: 181
8.4 Conclusion 187
References 188
Chapter 9 Technological Diversification: Strategic Trajectory Leading to an Effective Utilization of Potential Resources in Innovation: A Case of Canon 189
9.1 Introduction 189
9.2 R& D Diversification and Assimilation of Spillover Technology
Chapter 10 Japan’s Coevolutionary Dynamism Between Innovation and Institutional Systems: Hybrid Management Fusing East and West 220
10.1 Introduction 220
10.2 Japan’s Indigenous Explicit Function 221
10.3 Lost Decade and Reactivation 225
10.4 Hybrid Management: Fuses East and West 230
10.5 Canon’s Success in Hybrid Management 233
10.6 Conclusion 237
References 239
Chapter 11 Conclusion 241
11.1 Formation of IT Features Through Interaction with Institutional Systems: Empirical Evidence 241
11.2 Institutional Elasticity as a Significant Driver of IT Functionality Development 242
11.3 A Substitution Orbit Model of Competitive Innovations 243
11.4 Impacts of Functionality Development on Dynamism Between Learning and Diffusion of Technology 244
11.5 Diffusion, Substitution and Competition Dynamism Inside the ICT Market: A Case of Japan 246
11.6 The Co-evolution Process of Technological Innovation: 250
11.7 Technopreneurial Trajectory Leading to Bipolarization of Entrepreneurial Contour in Japan’s Leading Firms 252
11.8 Technological Diversification: Strategic Trajectory Leading to an Effective Utilization of Potential Resources in Innovation: A Case of Canon 253
11.9 Japan’s Co-evolutionary Dynamism Between Innovation and Institutional Systems: Hybrid Management 254

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.4.2009
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 247 p. 134 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Characterization of Technology • Co-evolutional Dynamism • Information Technology (IT) • Innovation • Institutional Innovation • learning • Management of Technology • Manufacturing Technology and IT • science and technology
• ISBN-10: 3-540-89272-9 / 3540892729
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-89272-4 / 9783540892724