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

• Main Author: Watanabe, Chihiro (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Computers and civilization.; Economic policy.; Economics.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Computers and Society.; IT in Business.

Why do some country’s hi-tech firms innovate better than others? Why did hi-tech firms from the United States outperform such Japanese companies in the 1990s? Through a wealth of empirical evidence, the book compares the development trajectory of manufacturing technology and information technology b...