Information Technology Innovation And The Japanese Economy

Author : Kazunori Minetaki,Kiyohiko Nishimura
Publisher : Stanford Economics & Finance
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134516959

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Information Technology Innovation and the Japanese Economy by Kazunori Minetaki,Kiyohiko Nishimura Pdf

The notion that innovation in information technology could spark a revitalization of the Japanese economy became a hot topic in 2000, and the Japanese government announced an e-Japan Strategy for creating a "knowledge emergent society" in January 2001. However, just when a consensus seemed to be emerging regarding the importance of IT innovation in Japan, the country's IT industries were deeply influenced by a recession that originated in the U.S. Although economic conditions have improved, strong IT-driven economic growth in Japan has not bounced back. Using a newly constructed set of data, this book examines how the Japanese economy has been affected by advances in information and communications technology, and whether Japan's experience with IT advancement was a short-lived bubble or part of a truly revolutionary change in the Japanese economy that will lead to long-term growth. The authors discuss similarities and differences between Japan's experience with IT innovation and that of the United States, where IT is thought to have played a major role in stimulating the economy.

Author : Chihiro Watanabe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540892724

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Managing Innovation in Japan by Chihiro Watanabe Pdf

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.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy,Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309136624

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21st Century Innovation Systems for Japan and the United States by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy,Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century Pdf

Recognizing that a capacity to innovate and commercialize new high-technology products is increasingly a key for the economic growth in the environment of tighter environmental and resource constraints, governments around the world have taken active steps to strengthen their national innovation systems. These steps underscore the belief of these governments that the rising costs and risks associated with new potentially high-payoff technologies, their spillover or externality-generating effects and the growing global competition, require national R&D programs to support the innovations by new and existing high-technology firms within their borders. The National Research Council's Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) has embarked on a study of selected foreign innovation programs in comparison with major U.S. programs. The "21st Century Innovation Systems for the United States and Japan: Lessons from a Decade of Change" symposium reviewed government programs and initiatives to support the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises, government-university- industry collaboration and consortia, and the impact of the intellectual property regime on innovation. This book brings together the papers presented at the conference and provides a historical context of the issues discussed at the symposium.

Author : Cornelius Herstatt,Christoph Stockstrom,Hugo Tschirky,Akio Nagahira
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540312482

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Management of Technology and Innovation in Japan by Cornelius Herstatt,Christoph Stockstrom,Hugo Tschirky,Akio Nagahira Pdf

What Makes this Book Unique? No crystal ball is required to safely predict, that in the future – even more than in the past – mastered innovativeness will be a primary criterion distinguishing s- cessful from unsuccessful companies. At the latest since Michael Porter’s study on the competitiveness of nations, the same criterion holds even for the evaluation of entire countries and national economies. Despite the innumerable number of p- lications and recommendations on innovation, competitive innovativeness is still a rare competency. The latest publication of UNICE – the European Industry - ganization representing 20 million large, midsize and small companies – speaks a clear language: Europe qualifies to roughly 60% (70%) of the innovation strength of the US (Japan). The record unemployment in many EU countries does not c- tradict this message. A main reason may be given by the fact that becoming an innovative organi- tion means increased openness towards the new and more tolerance towards risks and failures, both challenging the inherently difficult management art of cultural change. Further, lacking innovativeness is often related to legal and fiscal barriers which rather hinder than foster innovative activities. Yet another reason to explain Europe’s notorious innovation gap refers to insufficient financial R&D resources on the company as well as on the national level. As a result, for example, hi- ranking decisions on the level of the European Commission are taken to increase R&D expenditures in the European Union from roughly 2% to 3% of GNP.

Author : C. Holroyd,K. Coates
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230599451

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Innovation Nation by C. Holroyd,K. Coates Pdf

This book explores Japan's efforts to promote the commercial benefits of science and technology. Japan has made major scientific investments, with a view to enhancing the country's medium and long-term economic prospects; these successful efforts have re-enforced the country's reputation as a leader in the promotion of national innovation.

Author : Kwan S. Kim,Fumio Maki,Ryoshin Minami,Joung-hae Seo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349237753

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Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies by Kwan S. Kim,Fumio Maki,Ryoshin Minami,Joung-hae Seo Pdf

Economic progress requires technological development, which in turn depends on a country's social capacity to acquire, assimilate, and develop new technologies. Focusing on the evolution of Japan's economy from the Meiji Restoration to the present day, this volume provides an authoritative account, firmly grounded in theoretical and empirical analysis, of the country's attempts to generate the necessary social capacity for technological innovation and absorption. Successive chapters address the specific experiences of a number of key Japanese industries during this process. Each industrial case study is written by an acknowledged expert in the field and presents material of significant interest to specialists in economic development in a form that is also accessible to the nonspecialist. The book concludes with a summary of useful lessons, variously applicable to countries at all the different stages of industrialization.

Author : Christopher Freeman
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038300773

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Technology, Policy, and Economic Performance by Christopher Freeman Pdf

Author : Martin Hemmert,Christian Oberländer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134653638

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Technology and Innovation in Japan by Martin Hemmert,Christian Oberländer Pdf

Long-awaited reforms in technology policy and corporate strategy are now taking place in Japan. This book asks whether it is the programme of reform or the will and ability to implement reforms which is new.

Author : Guan Quan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000245677

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Technological Innovation and Economic Development in Modern Japan by Guan Quan Pdf

As the first volume of the two-volume Industrial Development in Modern China: Comparisons with Japan that studies the different paths of industrialization and economic modernization between China and Japan, this book analyzes the relationship between technological innovation and economic development in Japan before World War II. The author deploys econometric analysis, multivariate statistical analysis and case studies from different industries to shed light on technological innovation in the Japanese context with particular emphasis on the importance of the patent system. A great deal of new inventions and patents in this period led to fast economic growth in Japan characterized by the simultaneous development of both traditional and modern industries. These insights help reshape the understanding of Japan's economic development and industrial advancement at an early stage and provide pointers to developing countries as to how human capital, social capabilities and thereby technological innovation can figure in economic growth. This volume will appeal to academics of the East Asian economy, development economics and modern economic history as well as general readers interested in the miracle of the Japanese economy as the first to achieve economic development and modernization among non-Western countries.

Author : Cornelia Storz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415651721

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Small Firms and Innovation Policy in Japan by Cornelia Storz Pdf

Using comparative studies and original research, this book discusses the extent to which the Japanese economy encourages entrepreneurship and innovation.

Author : Hiroyuki Odagiri,Akira Gotō
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198288026

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Technology and Industrial Development in Japan by Hiroyuki Odagiri,Akira Gotō Pdf

This book studies the industrial development of Japan since the mid-nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on how the various industries built technological capabilities. The Japanese were extraordinarily creative in searching out and learning to use modern technologies, and the authors investigate the emergence of entrepreneurs who began new and risky businesses, how the business organizations evolved to cope with changing technological conditions, and how the managers, engineers, and workers acquired organizational and technological skills through technology importation, learning-by-doing, and their own R & D activities. The book investigates the interaction between private entrepreneurial activities and public policy, through a general examination of economic and industrial development, a study of the evolution of management systems, and six industrial case studies: textile, iron and steel, electrical and communications equipment, automobiles, shipbuilding and aircraft, and pharmaceuticals. The authors show how the Japanese government has played an important supportive role in the continuing innovation, without being a substitute for aggressive business enterprise constantly venturing into unfamiliar terrains.

Author : Akira Gotō,Hiroyuki Odagiri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198289855

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Innovation in Japan by Akira Gotō,Hiroyuki Odagiri Pdf

Technology is a key factor in global industrial competition, and Japan's national system of technological innovation has been vital to the economic success of the country since World War II. This book examines the historical development of the system, incl

Author : Frieder Meyer-Krahmer,Jürgen Müller,Brigitte Preißl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642755774

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Information Technology: Impacts, Policies and Future Perspectives by Frieder Meyer-Krahmer,Jürgen Müller,Brigitte Preißl Pdf

Economical and political aspects of information technology in Europe and Japan are dealt with in this book. European and Japanese technology policies, the possibilities of cooperation on all economic and business levels as well as future perspectives on world information markets from the Japanese and European points of view form the priority areas of the book. Special attention is given to - the case study of a Swiss-Japanese business cooperation with many practical references, - an analysis of East European information markets and, - the relations between Europe and Japan from the viewpoint of the USA. The reader is given an insight into new developments in the information technology markets in Europe and Japan as well as into the economic and political framework within which the developments are taking place.

Author : Tsutomu Shibata,Hirotaka Takeuchi
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Business
ISBN : 9780821366752

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Japan, Moving Toward a More Advanced Knowledge Economy, 2 by Tsutomu Shibata,Hirotaka Takeuchi Pdf

"These two volumes analyze Japan from the Knowledge Economy perspective, covering a wide range of sectoral issues in development including the macro economic framework, education and skills training, the national innovation system, science and technology, information and communication technology, and infrastructure. While Volume 1 explores the four pillare of the ""Knowledge for Development"" framework, the second volume presents up-to-date case studies of outstanding Japanese private companies that each characterize different aspects of the Knowledge Economy. By combining economics and business, these volumes allow readers to grasp the full scope of today's knowledge economy."

Author : Tsutomu Shibata
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Business
ISBN : 9780821366738

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Japan, Moving Toward a More Advanced Knowledge Economy, 1 by Tsutomu Shibata Pdf

"These two volumes analyze Japan from the Knowledge Economy perspective, covering a wide range of sectoral issues in development including the macro economic framework, education and skills training, the national innovation system, science and technology, information and communication technology, and infrastructure. While Volume 1 explores the four pillare of the ""Knowledge for Development"" framework, the second volume presents up-to-date case studies of outstanding Japanese private companies that each characterize different aspects of the Knowledge Economy. By combining economics and business, these volumes allow readers to grasp the full scope of today's knowledge economy."