This book summarizes highlights of the investigation of "An
Elucidation of the Role of Institutional Systems in Characterizing
Technology Development Trajectories - A Global Comparative Analysis
of Manufacturing Technology and Information Te- nology in the
Enhancement of Business Practice" supported by Grant-in-Aid for
Scienti?c Research (S) by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science and Technology/Japan Society for Science Policy
over the period 2002-2006. Background and objectives of the
investigation are summarized as follows: (a) Japan ranks far below
the level of the USA with respect to the development and
utilization of information technology (IT) in the information
society that emerged in the 1990s. (b) This can be attributed toa
vicious cycle between Japan's non-elastic institutions, insuf?cient
utilization of the potential bene?ts of IT, and economic
stagnation. (c) The source of such a vicious cycle can be derived
from the fundamental d- ferences of the characterizing process of
technology between manufacturing technology (MT) and IT during
their diffusion processes. This investigation - tempted to
elucidate this mechanism. Noteworthy ?ndings obtained include: (a)
MT has been developed largely by the supply side and its
functionality is - tablished during the stage of its supply to the
market. In contrast, IT is strongly driven by the demand side and
its functionality is created through diffusion in a
self-propagating way. This contrast can be clearly observed in the
dramatic advancement of Japan's mobile phone industry in the late
1990s.
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