Akiya Nagata

TL;DR: The knowledge-based view of the firm views a firm as a knowledge-creating entity, and argues that knowledge and the capability to create and utilize such knowledge are the most important source of a firm's sustainable competitive advantage.

TL;DR: This paper found that intraindustry R&D knowledge flows and spillovers are greater in Japan than in the US and the appropriability of rents due to innovation less, suggesting that patent policy can importantly affect information flows.

TL;DR: In this article, a large-scale data set on product development organizations of Japanese manufacturing firms has been used to explore the effects of organizational capabilities on the product development performance, and the results show that the process capabilities emerging from dynamic interaction of knowledge play a crucial role as core capabilities for product development of Japanese firms.

TL;DR: In this article, an empirical study of concept evolution in science and technology (S&T) policy using words/co-words analysis of Japanese policy documents is presented, by analysing changes over time in the policy concepts in published advisory reports for the Government and capturing the history of S&T policy as a dynamic process.

TL;DR: In this article, the main issues identified for the government are the improvement of partnership readiness of local firms and the lowering of linkage costs between FDI and local firms, and they showed that liberalization policies for FDI in Indonesia, especially in the Batam bonded zone, have not led to abovementioned benefits.