Technological Innovation And Economic Development In Modern Japan

Author : Guan Quan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000245691

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

This book analyzes the relationship between technological innovation and economic development in Japan before World War II. Guan Quan 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. The book 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 : Kwan S. Kim,Fumio Maki,Ryoshin Minami,Joung-hae Seo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Hiroyuki Odagiri,Akira Gotō
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Guan Quan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000327274

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Industrial Development in Modern China by Guan Quan Pdf

The two-volume book studies the economic and industrial development of Japan and China in modern times and draws distinctions between the different paths of industrialization and economic modernization taken in the two countries, based on statistical materials, quantitative analysis and multivariate statistical analysis. The first volume analyses the relationship between technological innovation and economic development in Japan before World War II and sheds light on technological innovation in the Japanese context with particular emphasis on the importance of the patent system. The second volume studies the basic conditions and overall economic development of industrial development, chiefly during the period of the Republic of China (1912-1949), taking a comparative perspective and bringing the case of modern Japan into the discussion. The book will appeal to academics and general readers interested in economic development and the modern economic history of East Asia, development economics, as well as industrial and technological history.

Author : Kazunori Minetaki,Kiyohiko Nishimura
Publisher : Stanford Economics & Finance
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521424925

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The Technological Transformation of Japan by Tessa Morris-Suzuki Pdf

This landmark book is the first general English-language history of technology in modern Japan.

Author : Guan Quan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Akira Gotō,Hiroyuki Odagiri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Martin Hemmert,Christian Oberländer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134653621

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

This book demonstrates that long-awaited changes to technology policy and corporate strategy are now taking place in Japan. The study also questions whether it is the programme of reform or the will and ability to implement these reforms which is new. Contributors explore the repositioning of the Japanese science and technology system on three leve

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 : 46,5 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 : Erik Baark,Andrew Jamison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1986-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349081172

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Technological Development in China, India and Japan by Erik Baark,Andrew Jamison Pdf

Author : Janet Hunter,Cornelia Storz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415368227

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Institutional and Technological Change in Japan's Economy by Janet Hunter,Cornelia Storz Pdf

This book brings together leading economists and economic historians of Japan in order to examine a range of key issues concerning Japanese institutional and technological development.

Author : Ronald Philip Dore
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781950036

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Social evolution, economic development and culture by Ronald Philip Dore Pdf

Social Evolution, Economic Development and Culture brings together Ronald Dore's key writings for the first time, making his work accessible across a wide range of social science disciplines. It produces a distinctive perspective with four interlinking themes - technology-driven social evolution, late development, culture and polemics. These are highly topical in the current context of rapid technological innovation and socio-economic change, globalization and accompanying policy choices.

Author : Chihiro Watanabe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Carin Holroyd,Kenneth Coates
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124042420

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Innovation Nation by Carin Holroyd,Kenneth Coates Pdf

This book explores the nature of innovation in Japan. It begins with an analysis of Japan's current situation, focusing on the business environment, the economy and contemporary political conditions, and examines how the country is addressing its most pressing and substantial issues, as well as providing a compelling introduction to Japan's innovation and an assessment of the country's approach to technology, administration, education, and corporate and political change in an age of globalization and economic transformation.