International Comparative Studies on Intellectual Property Management

• Project/Area Number: 20830122
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Start-up)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Business administration
• Research Institution: Kansai University
• Principal Investigator: NISHIMURA Shigehiro Kansai University, 商学部, 准教授 (70511723)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2009
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,261,000 (Direct Cost: ¥970,000、Indirect Cost: ¥291,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,729,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,330,000、Indirect Cost: ¥399,000)
• Keywords: 知的財産 / 特許 / エンフォースメント / 技術移転 / 経営史 / 経営学 / 知的財産管理 / 特許管理 / 国際比較 / アメリカ企業

Research Abstract

This study clarified that the corporate patent management of the US electrical company was formed in the course of creation of modern business enterprises around 1890. The corporate patent management is an administrative function for company to execute its patent policy in accordance with its corporate strategy, by a department in charge of patent affairs. And, it was also clarified that a Japanese corporate patent management was transferred from global operations by US companies in Japan in 1920s ; thereafter developed peculiarly keeping up with such subjects of introduction of foreign technology and development of original technology during era of swift economic growth after world war II.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Diffusion of Intellectual Property (IP) Management after World War II: Role of the Japan Patent Association (2010)
  • Author(s): Shigehiro Nishimura
  • Journal Title: Kansai University Review of Business and Commerce No.12 Pages: 19-39
• [Journal Article] Diffusion of Intellectual Property(IP)Management after World War II : Role of the Japan Patent Association (2010)
  • Author(s): 西村成弘
  • Journal Title: Kansai University Review of Business and Commerce 12 Pages: 19-39
• [Journal Article] (2010)
  • Author(s): 大倉雄次郎
  • Journal Title: グローバル経済における経営と会計の研究(関西大学出版部) Pages: 95-134
• [Journal Article] 近代企業の形成と特許管理-トムソン=ヒューストン社の事例- (2009)
  • Author(s): 西村成弘
  • Journal Title: 関西大学商学論集 第54巻第3号 Pages: 53-71
  • NAID: 110007341936
• [Journal Article] Foreign Business and Patent Management before WWI: A case study of the General Electric Company (2009)
  • Author(s): Shigehiro Nishimura
  • Journal Title: Kansai University Review of Business and Commerce No.11 Pages: 77-98
  • NAID: 110007335469
  • URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10112/905
• [Journal Article] 近代企業の形成と特許管理―トムソン=ヒューストン社の事例― (2009)
  • Author(s): 西村成弘
  • Journal Title: 関西大学商学論集 54(3) Pages: 53-71
  • NAID: 110007341936
• [Journal Article] Foreign Business and Patent Management before WWI : A case study of the General Electric Company (2009)
  • Author(s): Shigehiro NISHIMURA
  • Journal Title: Kansai University Review of Business and Commerce 11 Pages: 77-98
  • NAID: 110007335469
• [Presentation] GEの知的財産マネジメント―戦前の国際特許管理契約と日本企業― (2009)
  • Author(s): 西村成弘
  • Organizer: 日本経営学会第83回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 九州産業大学
  • Year and Date: 2009-09-03
• [Presentation] The Evolution and Diffusion of Patent Management in Japan (2009)
  • Author(s): Shigehiro Nishimura
  • Organizer: XVth World Economic History Congress
  • Place of Presentation: Utrecht University, The Netherland
  • Year and Date: 2009-08-06
• [Presentation] The Evolution and Diffusion of Patent Management in Japan (2009)
  • Author(s): Shigehiro Nishimura
  • Organizer: World Economic History Congress
  • Place of Presentation: Utrecht University
  • Year and Date: 2009-08-06
• [Book] グローバル経済における経営と会計の研究 (2010)
  • Author(s): 大倉雄次郎, 陶山計介, 伊藤健市, 大武健一郎, 西村成弘, 北山弘樹, 乙政正太
  • Publisher: 関西大学出版部