2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
An International Comparison of Relationship between Innovation in IT and Institutional Flexibility among Japan, the US, Europe, and APEC Countries
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15402027
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Business administration
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| Research Institution | Kyoto Institute of Technology (2004-2005)
Tokyo Institute of Technology (2003) |
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Principal Investigator |
KATSUMOTO Masakazu Kyoto Institute of Technology, Faculty of Textile Science, Associate Professor, 繊維学部, 助教授 (90272674)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
WATANABE Chihiro Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Professor, 社会理工学研究科, 教授 (60220901)
KIJIMA Kyoichi Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Professor, 社会理工学研究科, 教授 (10134826)
MIYAJIMA Hideaki Waseda University, School of Commerce, Professor, 商学部, 教授 (60182028)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Keywords | Techno-Economics / Management of Technology / Innovation / Institution / インスティテューション |
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| Research Abstract |
The objectives of this research are to elucidate the relationship between development and diffusion of IT and institutions such as law systems, commercial practices, and aggregative preference of peoples, and to get some policy implications for effective IT diffusion. This research is based on the inter-disciplinal analysis such as innovation theory, techno-geopolitics, and comparative institutional analysis. This research is mainly focus on (i) an institutional response to IT (Information Technology), (ii) a resonance structure between IT diffusion and institutional response, (iii) determinations of resonance structure.
An international network of experts of IT and institutional analysis was formulated for executing this research. The coverage of this research is from advanced countries such as Japan, the US, EU member countries to developing countries such as China, India, and Russia.
The main policy implications of this research are as follows.
(1) The level of institutional response to IT are remarkably different from countries to countries.
(2) There are some evidences that only a few countries have a resonance structure between IT diffusion and institutional response in the short run. An interaction between IT and institutions might be a longitudinal phenomenon.
(3) The main determinant of level of institutional response to IT is on the aggregative attitude to uncertainty which can be measured by the level of entrepreneurship.
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