The Japanese economy has made a remarkable recovery from the so-called ‘Lost Decade’of the 1990s. This said, demographic trends suggest that Japan will have to show remarkable powers of innovation if it is to continue to prosper in the global economy. For, around the turn of the last century texts published by prominent strategy analysts such Michael Porter and colleagues were asking whether Japan could continue to compete at all, and in answering this question they not only gained significant global attention, they also appeared to sound the death knell for strategic innovation in Japan.

1 Innovation in Japan: An Introduction

KEITH JACKSON & PHILIPPE DEBROUX

2 Innovation Management of Japanese and Korean Firms:

A Comparative Analysis

MARTIN HEMMERT

3 Comparing National Innovation Systems in Japan and the

United States: Push, Pull, Drag and Jump Factors in the

Development of New Technology

 KATHRYN IBATA-ARENS

4 Growing R&D Collaboration of Japanese Firms and Policy

Implications for Reforming the National Innovation System

 KAZUYUKI MOTOHASHI

5 Japanese Intellectual Property and Employee Rights to Compensation

 RUTH TAPL1N

6 From Vertical to Horizontal Inter-Firm Cooperation:

Dynamic Innovation in Japan's Semiconductor Industry

 YOSHITAKA OKADA

7 Innovation, Institutions and Entrepreneurs: The Case of 'Cool Japan'

 CORNELIA STORZ

8 The Expected Roles of Business Angels in Seed/Early Stage

University Spin-offs in Japan: Can Business Angels act as Saviours?

 MASANOBU TSUKAGOSH1

9 Innovation in Japan: What Role for University Spin-offs?

 PHILIPPE DEBROUX

10 Emerging Patterns and Enduring Myths of Innovation in Japan:

Concluding Thoughts

  KEITH JACKSON & PHILIPPE DEBROUX

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