Emerging Patterns of Innovation: Sources of Japan's Technological Edge (Management of Innovation and Change) - Hardcover

Kodama, Fumio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0875844375 ISBN 13: 9780875844374

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, 1995

Synopsis

Discusses Japanese manufacturing, business diversification, research and development, product development, innovation, societal diffusion, and option sharing

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About the Author

Fumio Kodama is Professor of Science, Technology and Industry at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo.

Reviews

Kodama's analysis shows that the Japanese have not, as some suggest, adapted their business, economic, and social systems to take maximum advantage of leading and changing technologies. Instead, he argues, these technologies intrinsically suit the Japanese. Kodama builds a model of how Japanese companies manage innovation and technological change; he identifies six areas where most change is occurring: manufacturing, diversification, research and development competition, product development, innovation pattern, and societal diffusion of technology. Kodama is a professor of science, technology, and industry at the University of Tokyo, and he has been a visiting professor at Stanford and at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Although the author is Japanese, his language is pure "bizschoolspeak" ; he writes of techno-paradigm shifts, demand articulation, knowledge creation, and upstream linkages. Kodama also includes rigorous mathematical analysis of data he has compiled for 10 years. Recommended for academic or major business collections. David Rouse

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875844375
• ISBN 13: 9780875844374
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336