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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Japanese Corporates Are No Longer Innovating; 1.1.1 The Science-Based Industry of Japan Faces a Crisis; 1.1.2 The Collapse of Central Research Laboratories Triggered This Crisis; 1.2 What Can Be Done to Revive Innovation?; 1.2.1 Leverage Dormant Talent; 1.2.2 Developing "a Good Eye" for Innovation; 1.2.3 Science Literacy and Trans-science Issues; 1.3 Structure of the Book; 2. Why Has Japan Failed While America Succeeded?; 2.1 What Are the Points of Difference Between Japan and America? |
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2.1.1 Decline of the Innovative Scientific Temper in Japan2.1.2 The Young Generation of Japan Robbed of Creative Opportunities; 2.1.3 Are the Japanese Not Daring Enough?; 2.1.4 SBIR Has Dramatically Changed the Science-Based Industries of the United States; 2.2 What Is SBIR?; 2.2.1 The "Birth of a Star" System Set Up by the Government; 2.2.2 The Three-Stage Selection Method; 2.2.3 Providing Identity as a Scientist; 2.2.4 Building an Innovation Ecosystem; 2.3 Japan's Institutional Failure; 2.3.1 Japanese SBIR Program That Ended Up as a Small and Medium Enterprise Support Policy |
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2.3.2 Mimicking the United States without Understanding the Basic Concept2.3.3 Boldness of the American Industrial Policy; 2.3.4 74% of SBIR "Award Winners" in the United States Are PhD Holders; 2.3.5 A Japan That Does Not Leverage University Knowledge; 2.3.6 The U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry That Created High Additional Value; 2.3.7 The Japanese SBIR Program That Instead Lowered Sales; 2.3.8 Starting Afresh with SBIR by Creating University Initiated Start-Ups; 3. How Is Innovation Born?; 3.1 Abduction: Understanding the True Nature of Science |
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3.1.1 "Knowledge Creation" and "Knowledge Embodiment"3.1.2 "Day Science" and "Night Science"; 3.1.3 A Computer's Thought Process: Deduction and Induction; 3.1.4 "Abduction" That Only Humans Can Do; 3.1.5 Sustain the Paradigm or Disrupt It; 3.1.6 Innovation Resulting in Breakthrough; 3.1.7 Process of Shuhari: Obeying, Detaching, and Leaving; 3.2 Innovation Diagram of Blue LED; 3.2.1 Paradigm Sustaining Innovation by "Deduction"; 3.2.2 Challenge to Paradigm Disruptive Innovation by "Abduction"; 3.2.3 Accomplishment of Paradigm Disruptive Innovation by "Induction" and "Deduction." |
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3.2.4 Characteristics for the Paradigm Disruption of the Blue LED3.3 Resonance and Transilience; 3.3.1 Creating Fields of Resonance; 3.3.2 The Pioneering Spirit of RIKEN Before World War II; 3.3.3 "Transilience" or Knowledge Cross-Border; 3.3.4 Leaping into a World with a Different Basis of Evaluation; 3.3.5 iPS Cells Generated Through Transilience; 3.4 Breaking Away from Paradigm Sustaining Innovation; 3.4.1 The Four Types of Innovation; 3.4.2 Innovation Sommeliers Are Required; 4. Science Resonating with Society; 4.1 What Is Trans-science? |
| Summary |
What has gone wrong in Japan that has led to innovation crisis? Prof. Eiichi Yamaguchi has been committed to answer this question, and his quest has spanned several years and academic disciplines. Initially it appeared as if it had no context, but when he put the pieces together, he realized that it was actually one story. This book is a summary of his research over the last 20 years, especially after he moved out of the field of physics, to which he had devoted 21 years. He felt that it was essential for him to do his bit to save this sinking ship, or it would be disrespectful to the future generation. The book integrates his research on innovation policy, innovation theory, and trans-science. It begins with a detailed story of the innovation of blue LEDs, for which three Japanese scientists received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014. It describes the current innovation and science crises in Japan and presents evidence that the strong international competitiveness of science-based industries in the United States is a result of the invention of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) system. It discusses a new theory of innovation structures, showing the error in Clayton M. Christensen's argument of "disruptive innovation. "It also proposes a new concept for "paradigm disruptive innovation, "emphasizing that abduction and transilience are essential factors for accomplishing it and that their decline has led to the innovation crisis in Japan. Finally, it analyzes the future vision of the innovation ecosystem, which promotes abduction and transilience, for scientists to develop new science-based industries |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Eiichi Yamaguchi is a professor at Kyoto University, Japan, since 2014. He completed his MSc and DSc from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1977 and 1984, respectively. He has been senior physicist at NTT Basic Research Laboratory, executive fellow at 21st Century Public Policy Institute of Keidanren, and professor at Doshisha University, Japan. He is the founder of four start-up companies: ArcZone K.K. (1998), Powdec K.K. (2001), ALGAN K.K. (2005), and CONNEXX SYSTEMS K.K. (2011), and is currently a board member of Powdec K.K. He is author of the books Innovation: Paradigm Disruption and Fields of Resonance; Recovering from Success: Innovation and Technology Management in Japan; Root for JR Fukuchiyama Train Incident: Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility from Science; Fukushima Report: Root Cause for the Nuclear Accident; Five Physics Theories to Learn Before You Die; Science of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy; Why Innovation Ceased: Crisis of Scientific Japan; and The Graves of Physics: Seeking the Secret of Inspiration |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 25, 2019) |
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Technological innovations -- Japan
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Research and development partnership -- Japan
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Technology and state -- Japan
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General.
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Research and development partnership
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Technological innovations
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Technology and state
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Japan
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429448621 |
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0429448627 |
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9780429828256 |
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042982825X |
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9780429828263 |
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0429828268 |
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9780429828249 |
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0429828241 |
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