{"id":2394,"date":"2018-05-10T10:34:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T01:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/?page_id=2394"},"modified":"2020-11-11T16:10:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T07:10:47","slug":"researchareas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/about\/researchareas\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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(a)<\/span> Knowledge Management
<\/strong>A theoretical analysis of the drivers of technological and management innovation, treating the inherent processes as organizational knowledge creation.<\/p>

(b)<\/span> Research on Technological Innovation
<\/strong>Empirical classification of the processes involved in technological innovation. For example, detailed consideration of how new ideas generated in universities and corporate research bodies progress to the production stage.<\/p>

(c)<\/span> Research on Management Innovation
<\/strong>Scientific examination as to how new organizational structures and management methods emerge, and how large-scale businesses, which may have lost their flexibility, can transform their organizational structure and culture.<\/p>

(d)<\/span> Research on Entrepreneurs
<\/strong>Research into the personalities and career profiles of the entrepreneurs who are responsible for technological and managerial innovation.<\/p>

(e)<\/span>Business History
<\/strong>Research to elucidate the history of management innovation processes, and to examine how, when and why such innovation occurs when it does.<\/p>

(f)<\/span> Technology History
<\/strong>Disclosing the historical processes whereby technology evolves, and analysing the historical background of specific technological innovations and how they influenced subsequent economic development.<\/p>

(g)<\/span> Research on Social Networks
<\/strong>An analysis of the types of networks (inter-firm, industrial-academic, etc.) within which innovation occurs, and the ways in which innovation changes these networks.<\/p>

(h)<\/span> Institute for Innovation
<\/strong>Research into how various institutions assist innovation, such as the mechanisms for arranging capital supply and risk dispersion, financial and legal systems, and so on, and how the systems themselves are altered by innovation.<\/p>

(i)<\/span> International Comparative Research
<\/strong>Research comparing the various activities, organizations and systems pertaining to innovation available in different countries.<\/p>

Overall View<\/h3>

Having recognized the importance of innovation as a legitimate field of research, of primary importance in such research is a scientific examination of the underlying causes which give rise to innovation, and hence the need for\u00a0Research on Technological Innovation (b)\u00a0andResearch on the Management of Innovation (c).<\/p>

A comprehensive awareness of the characteristics of the entrepreneurs who initiate innovations is necessary in order to better understand the processes of innovation, and so there is a need for\u00a0Research on Entrepreneurs (d).<\/p>

In addition, analysis of the networks and links between those bodies engaged in innovation activities (public-sector research centres, private-sector firms, educational establishments, etc.) is an essential part of the social process of innovation, and thus the need for\u00a0Research on Social Networks (g).<\/p>

To place such empirical research in context requires an analysis of\u00a0Business History (e)\u00a0and\u00a0Technology History (f)\u00a0in order to trace the developmental processes of innovation over time. Furthermore, research into the infrastructures influencing the creation of innovation, such as the legal system of intellectual property rights, and monetary and financial systems, is deemed essential to put innovation in a wider context.<\/p>

Thus, there is a need to conduct research into the\u00a0Institutions for Innovation (h).<\/p>

All of the above-mentioned diverse streams of research can be unified by\u00a0Knowledge Management (a), which is based on the theoretical viewpoint that the ability to innovate is a vital resource of organizations. Finally, in order to generalize from such research, in-depth international comparisons between countries are important, and this is achieved by\u00a0International Comparative Research (i).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(a) Knowledge ManagementA theoretical analysis of the drivers of technological and management innovation, treating the inherent processes as organizational knowledge creation. (b) Research on Technological InnovationEmpirical classification of the processes involved in technological innovation. For example, detailed consideration of how new ideas generated in universities and corporate research bodies progress to the production stage. (c) Research on Management InnovationScientific examination as to how new organizational structures and management methods emerge, and how large-scale businesses, which may have lost their flexibility, can transform their organizational structure and culture. (d) Research on EntrepreneursResearch into the personalities and career profiles of the entrepreneurs who are responsible for technological and managerial innovation. (e)Business HistoryResearch…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1405,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2394","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7553,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2394\/revisions\/7553"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}