Introduction : an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach / Ruth Taplin and Nick Schymyk -- Emerging risk / Nick Schymyck -- Intangible assets, risk management and insurance : bringing all minds together / Matthew R. Hogg -- Developments in patent enforcement procedure in Japan and England / Anthony Trenton -- Risk transfer in a changing world / Oliver Prior -- Transferring insurable risk / Oliver Prior -- Recent risk financing innovations : motives, principles and practices / Peter C. Young -- The evolution of enterprise risk management / Gerry Dickinson -- Intellectual property and bridging loans : their emerging roles for the in venture financeand rehabilitation in Japan / Masatoshi Kuratomi
Summary
Assessing and managing risk is vitally important, and is increasingly studied in a range of areas including politics and international relations, finance and insurance, and innovation and the valuing of intangible assets such as patents and intellectual property. The degree to which innovation is encouraged or otherwise - a key factor for many businesses - depends in part on the attitude towards risk in the context in which it takes place. Taplin considers the different attitudes towards risk and innovation, and the different ways in which risk and innovation are handled, in Japan, Br
