Technology strategy revealed: Patterns and influences of patent-licensing behavior in Japanese firms

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The patterns of patent in-licensing and out-licensing behavior are examined among the Japanese firms in the pharmaceuticals and electronics industries. The analyses provides an insight into the influences on strategic research and development (R&D) selection as well as the general management dilemmas associated with the leveraging of intellectual assets, core competence selection, and markets versus hierarchies decision making.

Author: Collinson, Simon, Kato, Hisaharu, Yoshihara, Hitomi
Pharmaceutical preparations, Patents & copyrights, Pharmaceutical industry, Intellectual property

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How to profit from de facto standard-based competition: Learning from Japanese firms' experiences

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The strategic issues related to technological de facto standards, which is defined as a standard employed by a majority of users based on the market competition regardless of the third parties involvements, are discussed. Six propositions on de facto standard-based competition are given based on the historical and empirical analyses of 13 cases that were observed in the Japanese audio-visual and IT-related fields.

Author: Yamada, Hideo, Kurokawa, Sam
Photographic equipment and supplies, Photographic and Photocopying Equipment Manufacturing, Audio-Visual Equipment, Audiovisual equipment

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Does cross-functional integration lead to adaptive capabilities? Lessons from 188 Japanese product development projects

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The adaptive capabilities of the Japanese firms are explored by studying the way they adopt product development routines in relation to product attributes. A questionnaire-based data from 188 successful Japanese product development projects suggest that these firms have less adaptive capabilities for making proper use of cross-functional integration according to product characteristics and industrial dynamism.

Author: Fujimoto, Takahiro, Yasumoto, Masanori
Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Product Development, Market Research & Product Development, Forecasts and trends, Technology application, Market trend/market analysis, Time to market

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Subjects list: Product development, Japan, Electronics industry
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