| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KATSUMOTO Masakazu Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Research Associate, 大学院・社会理工学研究科, 助手 (90272674)
MIYAZAKI Kumiko Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Professor, 大学院・理工学研究科, 教授 (20281719)
KIJIMA Kyoichi Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Professor, 大学院・社会理工学研究科, 教授 (10134826)
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| Research Abstract |
A dramatic increase in the transboundary flow of people, goods and information together with an increase in technology complementarity with capital stock and labor forces has accelerated the growth and spread of global technology spillovers.
Facing the R＆D stagnation, effective utilization of technology from the global marketplace gathered from multiple sources has become an important competitive strategy leading to greater concern for assimilation capacity of spillover technology (the ability to utilize this spillover technology). In fact, how effectively utilize this substitution potential has become one of the most crucial R＆D strategies for industry. Notwithstanding its strong assimilation capacity p until the 1980s, Japan's capacity has deteriorated in the 1990s and the remediation of this problem has become urgent.
This research, uses both theoretical and empirical analyzes of the mechanisms of (i) technology spillover contribution to production increase, and (ii) the role of assim
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ilation, in addition to a numerical analyzes of the trends in assimilation capacity and the governing factors of this capacity. Furthermore, this investigation attempts to identify the sources and mechanism governing assimilation capacity, in order to extract suggestions for restructuring industry's R＆D strategy.
This research suggests that (i) assimilation capacity plays a key role in constructing a virtuous cycle of technology spillover and leading the future trajectory of "technology hosts" (which acquire spillover technology in the market place), (ii) the quality of labor is a decisive factor in assimilation capacity, and this quality is governed by informatization, the aging trend and the institutional system, (iii) therefore, the systematic advancement of informatization and carefully designed R＆D investment corresponding to changing institutional systems under the new paradigm characterized by zero or minus economic growth, globalization, a service intensified industrial structure, and a rapidly aging society are crucial subjects for industry's techno-managerial strategy. Less
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