Competing Process and Quality Innovation and the Duration of Product Cycles
| Project/Area Number |
24530261
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Applied economics
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| Research Institution | Kobe City University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
YASUNOBU Tomoda 神戸市外国語大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (30437280)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TANAKA Satoru 神戸市外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (20207096)
DAVIS Colin 同志社大学, 国際教育インスティテュート, 准教授 (70432557)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
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| Keywords | プロダクトライフサイクル / イノベーション / 特許 / スピルオーバー |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The main purpose of our research project is to propose a growth model in which product cycles arise endogenously from investment in two types of innovations. Incumbent firms invest in incremental technology improvements with the aim of reducing production costs. Market entrants develop breakthrough product designs in order to capture the market from vintage product lines. The competing objectives of the two types of innovation generate product cycles within an environment of creative destruction. We characterized three stable patterns of product evolution: incremental innovation alone, breakthrough innovation alone, and product cycles with both types of innovation.
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