Managing Innovation in Japan - The Role Institutions Play in Helping or Hindering how Companies Develop Technology

Acknowledgements

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Formation of IT Features Through Interaction with Institutional Systems: Empirical Evidence of Unique Epidemic Behavior

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Features of IT with Respect to Institutions

2.3 Implications

2.4 Conclusion

Appendix 1. Mathematical Development of Logistic Growth FunctionWithin a Dynamic Carrying Capacity

Appendix 2. Data Construction and Sources

Appendix 3. Mathematical Development of SCE

Chapter 3 Institutional Elasticity as a Significant Driver of IT Functionality Development

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Identification of IT Features with Respect to Institutions

3.3 Implications

3.4 Conclusion

Appendix. Data Construction and Sources

Appendix 1. TFP and IT Intensity

Appendix 2. Epidemic Behavior

References

Chapter 4 A Substitution Orbit Model of Competitive Innovations

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Substitution Orbit of Competitive Innovations

4.3 Lotka–Volterra Equations for Predator–Prey Systems

4.4 Orbit for Substitution: Policy Option in a Complex Orbit

4.5 Conclusion

References

Chapter 5 Impacts of Functionality Development on Dynamism Between Learning and Diffusion of Technology

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Dynamic Behavior of Learning Coefficient

5.3 Learning and Diffusion of Technology

5.4 Institutional Dynamism Leading to a Dynamic Interaction Between Learning, Diffusion and Spillover of Technology

References

Chapter 6 Diffusion, Substitution and Competition Dynamism Inside the ICT Market: A Case of Japan

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Methodology

6.3 Diffusion and Substitution Process of ICT in Japan: Empirical Analysis with Diffusion and Substitution Models

6.4 Conclusion

References

Chapter 7 The Co-Evolution Process of Technological Innovation: An Empirical Study of Mobile Phone Vendors and Telecommunication Service Operators in Japan

7.1 Introduction

7.2 A Market Dominated by High-End Handsets Due to High Learning Effect

7.3 A Market Dominated by Order-Made Models Due to Close Cooperation Between Vendors and Operators

7.4 A Virtuous Cycle Between Demand and Supply Sides Driving Japan’s Co-Evolutionary Mobile-Driven Innovations and Institutions

7.5 Conclusions

References

Chapter 8 Technopreneurial Trajectory Leading to Bipolarization of Entrepreneurial Contour in Japan’s Leading Firms

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Co-Evolutionary Dynamism Between Mobile Phone Driven Innovation and Institutional Systems: Cumulative Learning

8.3 Transformation in Entrepreneurial Contour in Leading Firms Facing the Transition to a Post Information Society:

8.4 Conclusion

References

Chapter 9 Technological Diversification: Strategic Trajectory Leading to an Effective Utilization of Potential Resources in Innovation: A Case of Canon

9.1 Introduction

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

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Japan’s Indigenous Explicit Function

10.3 Lost Decade and Reactivation

10.4 Hybrid Management: Fuses East and West

10.5 Canon’s Success in Hybrid Management

10.6 Conclusion

References

Chapter 11 Conclusion

11.1 Formation of IT Features Through Interaction with Institutional Systems: Empirical Evidence

11.2 Institutional Elasticity as a Significant Driver of IT Functionality Development

11.3 A Substitution Orbit Model of Competitive Innovations

11.4 Impacts of Functionality Development on Dynamism Between Learning and Diffusion of Technology

11.5 Diffusion, Substitution and Competition Dynamism Inside the ICT Market: A Case of Japan

11.6 The Co-evolution Process of Technological Innovation:

11.7 Technopreneurial Trajectory Leading to Bipolarization of Entrepreneurial Contour in Japan’s Leading Firms

11.8 Technological Diversification: Strategic Trajectory Leading to an Effective Utilization of Potential Resources in Innovation: A Case of Canon

11.9 Japan’s Co-evolutionary Dynamism Between Innovation and Institutional Systems: Hybrid Management