Overview
Japan's innovators and entrepreneurs have survived recession in the 1990s to prosper in today's competitive business environment. This volume explores the struggles of entrepreneurs and civic-minded local leaders in fostering innovative activity, and identifies key business lessons for an economy in need of dynamic change. Ibata-Arens offers in-depth analysis of strategy in firms, communities and in local government. The book examines detailed case studies of high-technology manufacturers in Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo, as well as bio-tech clusters in America--demonstrating far-reaching innovation and competition effects in national institutions
- | Author: Kathryn Ibata-Arens
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 03, 2005
- | Number of Pages: 268 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521856442
- | ISBN-13: 9780521856447
