Collaboration and Innovation in Japanese Firms: Dynamics of New Product Development

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23243054
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic history
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: YONEKURA Seiichiro 一橋大学, 大学院商学研究科, 教授 (00158528)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SHIMAMOTO Minoru 一橋大学, 大学院商学研究科, 教授 (20319180) ; CHOI Eugine 立命館大学, テクノロジー・マネジメント研究科, 准教授 (20589725) ; MIYAZAKI Kunio 静岡県立大学, 国際関係学部, 講師 (40347381) ; HIRAO Takeshi 諏訪東京理科大学, 経営情報学部, 准教授 (50361861) ; KAWAI Kazuhisa 岡山商科大学, 経営学部, 講師 (80330538) ; HOSHINO Yusuke 武蔵野大学, 経済学部, 講師 (90635682) ; SHIMIZU Hiroshi 一橋大学, 大学院商学研究科, 准教授 (90530080)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: オープン・イノベーション / イノベーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project aims exploring how Japanese firms strategically utilizes external resources and develops new products. Recently, the "Open Innovation" has gathered much attention. It has been indicated that Japanese firms were behind in Open Innovation. This research project has scrutinized the Japanese management systems and explored why Japanese firms were behind. More concretely, it has argued how to organize collaboration projects efficiently and how external resources could be strategically utilized by Japanese firms. Parts of the research results were published in "Open Innovation Management" in 2015.

Free Research Field

経営学