Publication Notice: Mechanisms for Long-Term Innovation: Technology and Business Development of Reverse Osmosis Membranes
Book Title:Mechanisms for Long-Term Innovation: Technology and Business Development of Reverse Osmosis Membranes Authors:Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima Published by Springer Nature Singapore in 2022, 372 pages, part of the book series: Advances in Japanese Business and Economics (AJBE, volume 31) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-4896-1 About this book: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…