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.
Publication Name: International Journal of Technology Management
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0267-5730
Year: 2005
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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.
Publication Name: International Journal of Technology Management
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0267-5730
Year: 2005
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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.
Publication Name: International Journal of Technology Management
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0267-5730
Year: 2005
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