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Innovation Strategy And Business Performance Of Japanese Manufacturing Firms

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  • Kazuyuki Motohashi

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This paper presents the first exploration of survey data of innovation strategy and performance of over 10,000 Japanese manufacturers. Although the importance of technological activities among various kinds of firms' strategic variables is generally agreed in Japan, empirical studies of them are very rare. In this paper, I start with basic facts of firms' R&D activities such as size and sectoral distribution of R&D expenditure and the number of patent holding, and investigate inter-industry heterogeneity of innovation strategies including technology licensing. The second part of this paper is for addressing issues on the relationship between these innovative strategies and the productivity level of firm. This evaluation is done by the following two steps, comparison between R&D performers and non performers, then regression of productivity on R&D among R&D performers. Small, but some positive associations between them are found, especially in high-tech industries.

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  • Kazuyuki Motohashi, 1998. "Innovation Strategy And Business Performance Of Japanese Manufacturing Firms," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(1), pages 27-52.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ecinnt:v:7:y:1998:i:1:p:27-52
    DOI: 10.1080/10438599800000027
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    1. Panagiotis Liargovas & Nikolaos Apostolopoulos, 2016. "Investment scenarios and regional factors in the solar energy sector," Economics and Business Letters, Oviedo University Press, vol. 5(3), pages 95-104.
    2. Tatielle Menolli Longhini & Joyce Mariella Medeiros Cavalcanti & Sergio Louro Borges & Bruno Pérez Ferreira, 2018. "Investment in Innovation and its Influence on Net Sales: An Analysis Based on PINTEC Data," Brazilian Business Review, Fucape Business School, vol. 15(1), pages 1-16, January.
    3. Hans Lööf & Jacques Mairesse & Pierre Mohnen, 2017. "CDM 20 years after," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(1-2), pages 1-5, February.
    4. Bossink, B.A.G., 2002. "Innovative quality management practices in the Dutch construction industry," Serie Research Memoranda 0021, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics.
    5. Carlos Alano Soares de Almeida & Jansen Maia Del Corso & Leonardo Andrade Rocha & Wesley Vieira da Silva & Claudimar Pereira da Veiga, 2019. "Innovation and Performance: The Impact of Investments in R&D According to the Different Levels of Productivity of Firms," International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 16(05), pages 1-21, August.

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    Keywords

    R&D; patents; technology spillover; productivity; Japanese manufacturing firms; JEL Classification: 030; L60;
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    JEL classification:

    • L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General

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