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Dynamics Of Regional Innovation, The: Policy Challenges In Europe And Japan (Hardcover): Yveline Lecler, Tetsuo Yoshimoto,... Dynamics Of Regional Innovation, The: Policy Challenges In Europe And Japan (Hardcover)
Yveline Lecler, Tetsuo Yoshimoto, Takahiro Fujimoto
R4,769 Discovery Miles 47 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

All over the world, open innovation is emerging and requires much more interactions between different actors with different organizational cultures: large firms and SMEs (i.e. industry), universities and research institutions (i.e. academia), as well as national and regional authorities for building the legal or incentive framework of innovation (i.e government). Certainly, flows of knowledge between these three spheres, which are also known as the triple helix, have always existed; but what appears to be new in an open innovation environment is the overlapping of their missions. In many areas such multi-actor interactions with overlapping roles did not emerge spontaneously, as was the case with the United States.Based on robust cases studied by researchers and practical experiences of personnel involved in innovation at public or private institutions, this book successively discusses the policy framework in Europe and Japan, the new role for universities due to intellectual property reform or technology transfer promotion, the new challenges for firms in terms of licensing, patents, corporate venturing, including entrepreneurship, incubation, venture capital or cross-industry knowledge sharing.All issues addressed in this book are clearly those toward regional innovation policies and practices that are open in nature. It contains descriptions and analysis of the various approaches taken by industrial, governmental, and academic players in various regions of Japan (Tohoku, Tokyo) and Europe (France, Belgium). The mix of theoretical and empirical material collected in this book was first presented at an international symposium in Tokyo.The dynamics of regional innovation is an on-going issue, and we are still standing at the threshold of this field of research. It is exactly why such a book is needed now.

Coping with Variety - Flexible Productive Systems for Product Variety in the Auto Industry (Hardcover): Yannick Lung,... Coping with Variety - Flexible Productive Systems for Product Variety in the Auto Industry (Hardcover)
Yannick Lung, Jean-Jacques Chanaron, Takahiro Fujimoto, Daniel Raff
R4,013 Discovery Miles 40 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999, this book explores pint points, compares and dates the development of product differentiation and variety. This book also analyses' how firms have embraced a variety of ways of efficiently managing this verity though production, the design of the product as well as in the relations with the suppliers and distributors.

Evolution of the Automobile Industry - A Capability-Architecture-Performance Approach (Paperback): Takahiro Fujimoto Evolution of the Automobile Industry - A Capability-Architecture-Performance Approach (Paperback)
Takahiro Fujimoto
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Transforming Automobile Assembly - Experience in Automation and Work Organization (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original... Transforming Automobile Assembly - Experience in Automation and Work Organization (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
Koichi Shimokawa, Ulrich Jurgens, Takahiro Fujimoto
R2,826 Discovery Miles 28 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Five years after the publication of MITs lean production book practitioners and academics from Japan, USA and Europe present new concepts, findings and conclusions in regard to one of the most critical areas of automobile production. The focus of the book is to explore automation and work organization for the final assembly operations in the world automobile industry. The authors are company practitioners in charge of planning assembly operations and academic researchers drawing from recent empirical work. Thus, the book presents a multi-facetted view on a development of critical importance for future development of the industry. The book is rich with figures, fotos, tables, thus making the text vivid, easy to understand and illustrative.

The Evolution of Manufacturing Systems at Toyota (Hardcover): Takahiro Fujimoto The Evolution of Manufacturing Systems at Toyota (Hardcover)
Takahiro Fujimoto
R2,359 R1,611 Discovery Miles 16 110 Save R748 (32%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is close look at the evolution of the Toyota automobile company into the second largest in the world, after GM. It explains how the leaders of the company developed the famous Toyota system of production that has been widely studied and imitated.

The Birth of Lean, 1.0: 1.0 (Paperback, Annotated edition): Koichi Shimokawa, Takahiro Fujimoto The Birth of Lean, 1.0: 1.0 (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Koichi Shimokawa, Takahiro Fujimoto; Translated by Brian Miller, John Shook
R774 Discovery Miles 7 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Industrial Competitiveness and Design Evolution (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018): Takahiro Fujimoto,... Industrial Competitiveness and Design Evolution (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Takahiro Fujimoto, Fumihiko Ikuine
R2,828 R2,670 Discovery Miles 26 700 Save R158 (6%) Out of stock

This book integrates the concept of design into the existing framework of industrial performance, international trade and comparative advantage in trade and industrial phenomena, which increasingly have been affected by design characteristics of tradable goods. Design, capability and their evolution are introduced into current theories of trade to explain the reality of international trade in the early twenty-first century and the possibility of design-based comparative advantage is explored. Toward that end, the concepts of design, architecture, organizational capability and productivity are introduced, as are their interactions and evolution. The author starts from the fact that firms' selection of design locations precedes that of production locations and that a new product's initial production location is usually the same as its design location. In other words, design matters in explaining today's trade phenomena. Thus, this book analyzes product design and its evolution in the context of the comparative advantage theory. The author argues that the concept of Ricardo's comparative advantage must be reinterpreted in a more dynamic way than in the past, with changing labor input coefficients treated as variables and driven by international capability-building competition between factories. Some of the many topics dealt with in this volume include a capability-architecture view of industrial comparative advantage, a design-based view of manufacturing, the evolution of manufacturing capabilities, Ricardian comparative advantage with changing labor input coefficients, comparative design cost and selection of design locations and a design process model behind comparative design cost. In this way, the behaviors of factories, product development projects, firms, industries and national economies in today's global competition are described and analyzed in the most realistic way.

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