Detail Information
| Category | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Fujiwara, Masatoshi; Yaichi Aoshima |
| Book Title | Mechanisms for Long-Term Innovation:Technology and Business Development of Reverse Osmosis Membranes |
| Place Published | Singapore |
| Publisher | Springer Nature Singapore, 372pp. |
| Date | 2022/12/16 |
| Abstract | This book explores how a long-term innovation can take place based on historical analyses of the development of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane from the early 1950s to the mid-2010s. The RO membrane is a critical material for desalination that is a key to solve water shortages becoming serious in many places of the world. The authors conducted in-depth field studies as well as analyses of rich archival data to demonstrate how researchers, engineers, managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers interacted each other for this material innovation to be realized. A series of historical analyses in this book uncovered that initial government supports, strategic niche markets, emergence of breakthrough technology, and company-specific rationales played significant roles for companies to overcome four types of uncertainty, technological, market, competition, and social/organizational ones, and enabled the companies to persistently invest in the development and commercialization of the RO membrane. This book depicts that innovation does not arise on a sudden, but that it is actualized through long lasting process with turns and twists, which is driven by many non-economic rationales beyond economic motives. |
| Notes | |
| URL | https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-4896-1 |
| Label | 経営学, 技術経営, 技術史, Magicc, 大河内賞, 日本企業, イノベーション政策, 不確実性 |
| Register date | 2023/01/25 |
