Volume 26 Issue 1 (2008)
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The Japanese Innovation System: University–Industry Linkages, Small Firms and Regional Technology Clusters
This essay introduces the articles in a special edition on advances made in the Japanese innovation system. It sets the papers against a broad overview of traditional Japanese approaches to…
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Reinventing Japan Inc.: Twenty‐First Century Innovation Strategies in Japan
Japan has been a key player in the global competition based on scientific and technological innovation. Through a series of Science and Technology Basic Plans, the national government sought to…
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Promoting University–Industry Linkages in Japan: Faculty Responses to a Changing Policy Environment
Since the mid‐1990s, Japan has instituted a series of policy reforms in order to encourage greater university participation in commercial activity. Using data from a survey of scientists in engineering…
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Regionalisation of Innovation Policies and New University–Industry Links in Japan: Policy Review and New Trends
This paper examines developments in the governance of science and innovation in Japan, with a particular focus on the recent ‘regionalisation’ of innovation policies and policy support for new university–industry…
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Putting Innovation in Place: Policy Strategies for Industrial Services, Regional Clusters, and Manufacturing SMEs in Japan and the United States
This paper examines the evolving situation of mature manufacturing small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) in Japan and the United States and considers some of the key challenges they now face…
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The Kyoto Model of Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Regional Innovation Systems and Cluster Culture
Why is it that Kyoto, ancient cultural capital of Japan, a conservative and traditional place in many ways, manages to produce Japan’s most innovative (and profitable) high technology entrepreneurial firms?…
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Knowledge Clusters and the Revitalization of Regional Economies in Japan: A Case Study of the Biomedical Industry in Kobe
On a cold January morning in 1995, a powerful earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, killing thousands and shattering the economy of one of Japan’s most vibrant cities. Three years later, a…