Innovation in Japan: Emerging Patterns, Enduring Myths

Hardcover, 190 pages, NOT ex-library. Fine internally. A clean and bright copy with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Firm secure binding. Boards show gentle cosmetic handling wear, short creases to sine ends. Published without a dust jacket. --- The Japanese economy has made a remarkable recovery from the so-called 'Lost Decade' of the 1990s. This said, demographic trends suggest that Japan will have to show remarkable powers of innovation if it is to continue to prosper in the global economy. For, around the turn of the last century texts published by prominent strategy analysts such as Michael Porter and colleagues were asking whether Japan could continue to compete at all, and in answering this question they not only gained significant global attention, they also appeared to sound the death knell for strategic innovation in Japan. This collection helps put the record straight. It brings together fresh perspectives on Japanese-style innovation, from insiders and from outsiders, from scholars and from practitioners, all of whose combined contributions to this book update our understanding of how patterns of innovation in Japan are evolving and thus provide inspiration and guidance for managers and innovators worldwide. --- Contents: 1. Innovation in Japan: An Introduction / Keith Jackson and Philippe Debroux; 2. Innovation Management of Japanese and Korean Firms: A Comparative Analysis / Martin Hemmert; 3. Comparing National Innovation Systems in Japan and the United States: Push, Pull, Drag and Jump Factors in the Development of New Technology / Kathryn Ibata-Arens; 4. Growing R&D Collaboration of Japanese Firms and Policy Implications for Reforming the National Innovation System / Kazuyuki Motohashi; 5. Japanese Intellectual Property and Employee Rights to Compensation / Ruth Taplin; 6. From Vertical to Horizontal Inter-Firm Cooperation: Dynamic Innovation in Japan's Semiconductor Industry / Yoshitaka Okada; 7. Innovation, Institutions and Entrepreneurs: The Case of 'Cool Japan' / Cornelia Storz; 8. Expected Roles of Business Angels in Seed/Early Stage University Spin-offs in Japan: Can Business Angels act as Saviours? / Masanobu Tsukagoshi; 9. Innovation in Japan: What Role for University Spin-offs? / Philippe Debroux; 10. Emerging Patterns and Enduring Myths of Innovation in Japan: Concluding Thoughts / Keith Jackson and Philippe Debroux.…