Mechanisms for Long-Term Innovation - Technology and Business Development of Reverse Osmosis Membranes (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Series:	Advances in Japanese Business and Economics, 31
Release date:	December 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Masatoshi Fujiwara • Yaichi Aoshima
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	372
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-981-19-4895-4
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Japanese
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > General Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > History of engineering & technology Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > Entrepreneurship Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > General Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > The hydrosphere > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability
LSN:	981-19-4895-X
Barcode:	9789811948954

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