Management of Technology and Innovation in Japan
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 Mi
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Cornelius Herstatt Christoph Stockstrom Hugo Tschirky Akio Nagahira Editors
Management of Technology and Innovation in Japan With 89 Figures and 28 Tables
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Prof. Dr. Cornelius Herstatt Christoph Stockstrom TU Hamburg-Harburg Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement Schwarzenbergstrasse 95 21073 Hamburg Germany E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Dr. Dr. Hugo Tschirky ETH Zürich Technology and Innovation Management Kreuzplatz 5 8032 Zurich Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Dr. Akio Nagahira Tohoku University Graduate School of Engineering Management of Science and Technology (MOST) 04 Aza-Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture 980-8579, Japan E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface and Introduction 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 successful 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 publications and recommendations on innovation, competitive innovativeness is still a rare competency. The latest publication of UNICE – the European Industry Organization 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 contradict this message. A main reason may be given by the fact that becoming an innovative organi
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