E-Journal
January/February 2010 Issue |
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Open Innovation A Key to Achieving Socioeconomic Evolution |
- Publisher's Note
- Strike Japan-US FTA for Services Trade to Mark 50th Anniversary of New Security Pact
- By Noboru Hatakeyama
- TOPICS
- *Japanese Corporate Earnings Bottom Out *Hiroshima, Nagasaki to Bid for 2020 Olympics *Japan to Lead APEC in Shaping Regional Growth Strategy
- By Hiroshi OKABE (Senior business news editor, Kyodo News)
- KEEPING UP WITH THE TIMES
- Awareness of Public Good Behind Objection to Toll-Free Expressways
- By Isao ADACHI (Commentator, Jiji Press)
- Cover Story Open Innovation: A Key to Achieving Socioeconomic Evolution
- 1) Making the Most of Open Innovation in Post-crisis Era
- Andrew WYCKOFF & Miriam KOREEN (Director & Senior project manager, Directorate for Science, Technology & Industry (STI), OECD)
- Cover Story Open Innovation: A Key to Achieving Socioeconomic Evolution
- 2) Policies for Knowledge Societies at Global Forefront
- By Petri ROUVINEN (Research director at ETLA (Research Institute of the Finnish Economy))
- Cover Story Open Innovation: A Key to Achieving Socioeconomic Evolution
- 3) How Smaller Companies Can Benefit from Open Innovation
- By Henry CHESBROUGH (Adjunct professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and executive director, Center for Open Innovation, Haas)
- Cover Story Open Innovation: A Key to Achieving Socioeconomic Evolution
- 4) Open Innovation in China
- By Haibo LIU (Senior research fellow, Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Cover Story Open Innovation: A Key to Achieving Socioeconomic Evolution
- 5) Open Innovation & Intellectual Property Rights The Two-edged Sword
- By Bronwyn H. HALL(Professor, Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley, and professor, University of Maastricht, Netherlands)
- Cover Story Open Innovation: A Key to Achieving Socioeconomic Evolution
- 6) How Can Industrial Technology Policy Enhance Innovation? Outline of Interim Report by Industrial Science & Technology Policy Committee, Industrial Structure Council
- By Terunobu YAMAUCHI (Senior director for Innovation Strategy Planning, Industrial Science & Technology Policy Division, Industrial Science/Technology Policy & Environment Bureau, METI)
- Cover Story Open Innovation: A Key to Achieving Socioeconomic Evolution
- 7) Cutting-edge Innovation by Japanese Firms: Case Study 1 DNA of Open Innovation: Yokogawa Electric Corp.
- By Masahito TAKAGI (General manager, Corporate Liaison Office, and concurrently deputy general manager, Technical Strategy Department, Corporate Research & Development Headquarters, Yokogawa Electric Corp.)
- Cover Story Open Innovation: A Key to Achieving Socioeconomic Evolution
- 8) Cutting-edge Innovation by Japanese Firms: Case Study 2 Environment-Serving Photocatalysts: TOTO Ltd.
- By Hiroaki SHIMOMURA (Engineer, Technical Development Department, HYDROTECT Division, TOTO Ltd.)
- Cover Story Open Innovation: A Key to Achieving Socioeconomic Evolution
- 9) Socio-technical Evolution Needed in Economic Crisis
- By Fumio KODAMA (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Management, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo)
- Cover Story Open Innovation: A Key to Achieving Socioeconomic Evolution
- 10) Innovation of IT & by IT
- By Akihiko SHINOZAKI (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyushu University. A former Japan Development Bank senior economist and a former government economist)
- Cover Story Open Innovation: A Key to Achieving Socioeconomic Evolution
- 11) Renovation of Environmental Technology The Key: Open Innovation
- By Masahiko OZAKI (Senior fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade & Industry (RIETI))
- SPECIAL ARTICLES
- 1) Social Impact of Ambatovy Project's Resettlement Process
- By Fabiana ILLESCAS TALLEDO & Matthew STARNES (Head & Senior legal counsel for the Ambatovy Project)
- SPECIAL ARTICLES
- 2) From an Evangelist of Kaizen A Japanese Way of Managing an Organization
- By Motokazu KANOKOGI (Management consultant, J-SMECA, and director, Global Development & Management Consultants)
- Viewpoint
- Foreign Correspondent 2.0
- By Tony MCNICOL (Writer and photographer)
- BUSINESS PROFILE
- Interview with Koichiro Natsume, president of Aniplex Inc. Sending Out Anime Globally As Bearer of Japanese Culture
- Interviewer: Yoshihiro KATAOKA
- CHALLENGING REGION
- Tsukuba City Aims at "Robot Town"
- By Kunitoshi TOYODA (Chief, Ibaraki Bureau, Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Ltd.)
- PROMENADE
- Book Review When Rover Met Honda The collaboration between two leading motor manufacturers INSIGHTS AND MEMORIES
- By Kiyoshi IKEMI (Formerly with Honda Motor Co.)
- JAPANESE CRAFT & ART
- Foreign Interest Growing in Traditional Japanese Craftwork
- By Japan Traditional Craft Center
- FINANCE
- Dai-ichi Mutual Life to Become Stock Company Having Largest No. of Shareholders in Japan - 3 Million
- By Katsuhiko SAKAI (Senior staff writer and deputy editor at Economic News Desk, Jiji Press)
- Culture
- The Passing of 3 Entertainers
- By Masakazu HOSODA (chief editor, Cultural News Section, Kyodo News)
- ECONOMIC FOCUS
- Globalization & Economic Crisis
- By Naoyuki HARAOKA (Editor-in-chief, Japan SPOTLIGHT)
- SPOTLIGHT
- The Key to Success
- By Natsuko TOYODA (JEF)
- ECONOMIC INDICATORS FOR JAPAN
- Charts January/February 2010
- JEF
- JEF's Recent & Forthcoming Events
- 2009 Japan-Korea Roundtable in Tokyo Oct. 22 & 23, 2009
- JEF