Global Companies, Local Innovations: Why the Engineering Aspects of Innovation Making Require Co-location
Author:   Yasuyuki Motoyama ,  Professor Peter Nijkamp ,  Professor Jessie P. H. Poon ,  Professor Mike Taylor
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781409421467


Pages:   180
Publication Date:   28 September 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Investigating the innovation activities of multinational corporations, this book uncovers and examines why the geography of innovation by multinationals is overwhelmingly local, in spite of their global operations in manufacturing and sales through case studies of produce development by three global players: Toyota, Sony, and Canon. The microdynamic approach of the book allows an in-depth investigation of the engineering and technical aspects of innovation making. The book unfolds the complex and constant process of trial and error in innovation and reveals three fundamental natures of innovation making: complexity, interdisciplinarity, and prototyping and testing. In order to manage these three natures of innovation, firms have to plan, ironically, for unplanned situations and to collocate knowledge, people, and resources.

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Author:   Yasuyuki Motoyama ,  Professor Peter Nijkamp ,  Professor Jessie P. H. Poon ,  Professor Mike Taylor
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781409421467


ISBN 10:   1409421465
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   28 September 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 In Search of Answers to Being Global and Local; Chapter 3 Sony’s Vaio 505; Chapter 4 Toyota’s Prius; Chapter 5 Canon’s Bubble Jet Printer BJ-10v; Chapter 6 Innovation and Geography;

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Yasuyuki Motoyama is a senior Scholar in Research and Policy and with Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

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