Patent Strategies of Japanese, American, and Korean ICT Companies

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380519
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Management
• Research Institution: Prefectural University of Hiroshima
• Principal Investigator: PARK Yousin 県立広島大学, 経営情報学部, 准教授 (20435457)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 技術開発戦略 / Resource Based View / Dynamic Capabilities / スマートフォン / 三星電子 / ソニー / Apple

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project examines the reasons how a missing link has happened between the R&D trend of Japanese ICT companies and the demands in the smartphone market. One of the possible reasons is the core rigidity of Japanese ICT companies. Specifically, we analyze the patent strategies and core rigidities of human resources allocation in R&D section of Japanese ICT organizations such as Panasonic, Sony and Sharp. R&D trends, patent strategies and core rigidities are examined by patent analysis via social network analysis and heat-map. For doing this research, our research is summarized as follows: First, we visualize a difference in patent strategies between Japanese and overseas ICT companies. Second, we also provide some theoretical explanations about patent analysis, not just introducing a new methodology to show its effectiveness. Third, we suggest that the core rigidity of R&D may be one of the factors that have caused the failure of Japanese ICT companies in smartphone market.

Free Research Field

技術経営論