Competition, Innovation, and Growth in Japan
Competition, Innovation, and Growth in Japan

Author: Yuji Honjo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-05-11

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 9811038635

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This book addresses three important concepts in the economy—competition, innovation, and growth—using various cases and available data in Japan and other countries. First, the authors discuss competition, including global competition, to provide a better understanding of competition policy in Japan. Then, the authors examine the effects of human capital and alliance on innovation while providing new innovation indicators. Moreover, the authors examine growth from the perspective of corporate strategy such as acquisition, including international comparison. The interplay of competition, innovation, and growth has been prevalent in Japan, and it still acts as a catalyst for stimulating the stagnant economy. A better understanding of competition, innovation, and growth provides the tools to reinvigorate the stagnant economy in Japan and to reinforce the economy in other countries where the period of rapid growth has ended.

Growth through Competition, Competition through Growth
Growth through Competition, Competition through Growth

Author: Hiroyuki Odagiri

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1992-01-23

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0191521558

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This book examines two central aspects of Japanese management - growth pursuit by internal investment (as opposed to acquisition), and intensive competition within and between Japanese firms. It also looks at how Japanese firms maintain efficiency and flexibility under the apparently rigid system of 'lifetime' employment. The author begins by enquiring in to the financial and human aspects of the firm with a particular emphasis placed on the human side. T he motivation, behaviour, and organization of Japanese management are discussed and the consequences of Japan's management system on its industrial organization and macroeconomy are examined. Throughout the book, it is emphasized that competition is at the heart of the Japanese economy and management to the same, if not to a greater degreee than in the West. This competition is enhanced by the growth preference of Japanese management, and competition in turn makes growth feasible.

Technology and Industrial Development in Japan
Technology and Industrial Development in Japan

Author: Hiroyuki Odagiri

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780198288022

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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.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Japan
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Japan

Author: Kathryn Ibata-Arens

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-11-03

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1139448765

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Japan's innovators and entrepreneurs are a real success story against the odds, surviving recession in the 1990s to prosper in today's competitive business environment. Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Japan explores the struggles of entrepreneurs and civic-minded local leaders in fostering innovative activity, and identifies key business lessons for an economy in need of dynamic change. Ibata-Arens offers in-depth analysis of strategy in firms, communities and in local government. Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Japan examines detailed case studies of high-technology manufacturers in Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo, as well as bio-tech clusters in America - demonstrating far-reaching innovation and competition effects in national institutions, and firms embedded within local and regional institutions. The book is essential reading for academics and students of business, economics, political economy, political science, and sociology. It will also appeal to investors, entrepreneurs and community development organisations seeking new perspectives on global competition and entrepreneurship in high-technology enterprises.

21st Century Innovation Systems for Japan and the United States
21st Century Innovation Systems for Japan and the United States

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2009-05-15

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0309136628

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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.

Growth Through Competition, Competition Through Growth
Growth Through Competition, Competition Through Growth

Author: Hiroyuki Odagiri

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780191596711

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An examination of the pursuit of growth and the intensive competition within and between Japanese firms, this title looks at how they interact and how they affect economic efficiency stability, and dynamism. He avoids popular cultural/sociological explanations and applies economic principles to understanding the Japanese firm.

Global Competition and Integration
Global Competition and Integration

Author: Ryuzo Sato

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 1461551099

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Global Competition and Integration offers varied perspectives on the changing international economy. The book is divided into four main sections covering world trade and competition, innovation and growth, financial markets and globalization, and regulation, distribution, and the role of government.

Industrial Policy, Innovation and Economic Growth
Industrial Policy, Innovation and Economic Growth

Author: Poh Kam Wong

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13:

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This text provides an analysis of the development experience of the five most advanced countries in East Asia: Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. It reviews of the role of the state in industrial development in each of the countries, in general, as well as in selected industries.

Innovation in Japan
Innovation in Japan

Author: Akira Gotō

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780198289852

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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