Technological Entrepreneurship in Innovations
for Emergence of New Industries
Shuichi Ishida
Professor of Innovation and Social Systems Research
Ritsumeikan University
Kyoto, Japan
Innovation in industry is a process that involves an enormous amount
of uncertainty, human creativity, and opportunity. Over the years,
scholars have studied patterns of successful industrial innovation,
but the identification of patterns does not suggest that successful
innovation is entirely predictable. This research attempts to develop
a practical and theoretical model of industrial innovation. Further
research on the dynamics of innovation was required to development a
concrete operational model to account for the role of key persons who
are able to bridge over product innovation and process innovation
differences. He examined the method for evaluating the strategy of
firms which technology is positioned between the fluid and
transitional phase of Abernathy-Utterback Model and in particular,
discussed the efforts of core human resources who play a key role in
the technological strategies, as well as how they are utilized. He
expected to find that the strategic allocation of key
individuals-multi performers would emphasize company-wide
technological strategies. His research target is to address a number
of epoch making product developments such as Electric Vehicle, Li-ion
Battery, Fuel Cell, stuff like that, and to provide a framework for
thinking about the important issues of technological
entrepreneurship. Issues addressed in his future research include the
following:
- The role of key individuals in industrial innovation
- The relationship between regional agglomeration process and
technological entrepreneurship by key individuals who plays an
important role of innovation and knowledge-based network creation
- How 'rising' new industry firms can successfully renew their SCM
as one generation of technology succeeds another (for example, EV,
fuel cell, etc.). In case, who plays an important role of
technological entrepreneurship?
Dr. Shuichi Ishida is a Professor of Innovation and Social
Systems Research at Ritsumeikan University (Rits MOT), KYOTO,
JAPAN. He received his Ph.D. in the field of R&D management from
Hokkaido University (2000) and in the field of Social System
Engineering from Kyoto University (2008). He has done research on
R&D organization, knowledge-based networking, construction project
management and industrial agglomeration development, along with
theoretical modeling, 'action research' at several companies with
specific core technologies, and some governmental projects. Prior to
joining Rits MOT faculty in 2004, he developed some frontier devices
of Li-ion Battery as an engineer at Sony after finishing his masters
of Nuclear Engineering at Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors in
Tokyo Institute of Technology. And next, he worked as a research
fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and an
associate professor of product development at Hokkai-Gakuen
University, Sapporo, JAPAN.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
1:30 PM
Laufer Library, (RRB 208)
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