Research on restructuring Japanese inter-firm system for forging innovation

这项研究分析了作为创新推动者的日本企业间关系。我们采用了按行业进行比较研究的方法。该课题组组长川端信武对东亚国家的钢铁行业进行了比较研究。太田康弘在实地考察的基础上，对意大利和日本的纺织服装业进行了比较研究。福岛道一对日美两国学术界和产业界的合作进行了比较研究，特别是对技术许可办公室进行了研究，王磊对中国的科技园进行了研究。王宝玲在中国对汽车工业进行了研究，特别是对国内外汽车制造商进行了比较，取得了以下成果：1篇被参考期刊录用的论文，1篇论文集，2篇收录在书中的论文。我们在学术会议上做了三次演讲。为了分享我们的发现，我们…2008年2月，MORE在东北大学举办了题为《发展网络和生产网络的国际比较》的研讨会。我们的项目显示：(1)日本企业间制度在全球范围内具有竞争优势的行业，如汽车工业和钢铁工业，仍然保持竞争优势，经历了一些细微的转变。(2)自20世纪80年代以来，日本纺织服装业一直面临着许多重组--他们必须克服的问题。他们没有停止业务萎缩，他们仍然在寻找解决问题的灵丹妙药，同时他们正在寻找他们应该走的路。(3)在日本，学术界和产业界的合作被视为创造新产业的前提工具，中央政府制定了一些支持这一工具的法律和政策。不幸的是，这项政策是由中央政府发起的，而不是由现场人员发起的。这些结果表明，与日本的政策和制度变迁相比，日本企业间制度10年来的变化是缓慢的。我们研究的独到之处在于证明系统应该以多快的速度变化，以及为什么系统以从容的速度变化。较少

This research analyzed Japanese inter-firm relationships that worked as innovation promoter. We used, comparative -study-by-industry. Nozomu Kawabata, the head-investigator of this research group, conducted comparative study among the iron and steel industries in East Asian countries. Yasuhiro Ota conducted comparative study on textile and apparel industries in Italy and Japan based on field study. Michi Fukushima researched on comparative study on collaboration between academia and industry in Japan and the U.S, especially focusing on Technology Licensing Offices, and Wang Lei conducted research on the Science Parks in China. Wang Baoling researched on the automobile industry in China, especially comparing foreign-affiliated manufacturers and domestic ones.The fruits of these research are as follows; one paper accepted by refereed journal, one proceeding, and two papers included in the books. And we made three presentations at the academic meetings. In order to share our findings, we … More held a symposium, whose title was "International comparison on Development Network and Production Network" at the Tohoku University in February 2008.Our project shows as follows; (1) Japanese inter-firm system of the industries that have had-competitive advantage on a global scale, such as the automobile industry and the steel and iron industry, still keeps competitive advantage, going through some minor transformations. (2) The textile and apparel industry in Japan has been facing lots of restructuring-problems they have to overcome since 1980s. They have not stopped business shrinking, and they are still looking for panacea for solving problems, while they are finding the way that they should go. (3) Collaboration between academia and industry is regarded as a premising tool for creating new industry in Japan and the central government has enacted some laws and policies that support it. Unfortunately the policy has been initiated by the central government and not by the persons on the spot. So they have problems in term of heightening their motivation.These results indicate that Japanese inter-firm system has changed slowly for 10 years, comparing with changes of policies and institution in Japan. The uniqueness of our research is to prove how fast the system should have changed and why the system has changed with leisurely speed. Less