Mechanisms for Long-Term Innovation

Technology and Business Development of Reverse Osmosis Membranes

von Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima

372 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Advances in Japanese Business and Economics
• Themen: Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Finanzen, Betriebswirtschaft und Management Betriebswirtschaft und Management Unternehmertum / Start-ups
• ISBN: 9789811948985
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.12.2023
• Größe: 23.5 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: Springer Singapore