{"id":10184,"date":"2022-12-17T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T07:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/?p=10184"},"modified":"2023-01-25T16:16:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:16:37","slug":"book_aoshima-202212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/2022\/12\/17\/book_aoshima-202212\/","title":{"rendered":"Publication Notice: Mechanisms for Long-Term Innovation: Technology and Business Development of Reverse Osmosis Membranes"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Book Title:<\/strong><\/span>
Mechanisms for Long-Term Innovation: Technology and Business Development of Reverse Osmosis Membranes<\/em><\/p>

Authors:<\/strong><\/span>
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima<\/p>

Published by <\/strong><\/span>Springer Nature Singapore in 2022, 372 pages, part of the book series: Advances in Japanese Business and Economics (AJBE, volume 31)<\/p>

https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-981-19-4896-1<\/a><\/span><\/p>

About this book:<\/strong><\/span>
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.<\/p>

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.<\/p>

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.<\/p>

Table of contents (15 chapters)
Introduction: The Objectives and Research Questions of This Book
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 1-21<\/p>

\u25a0Overview<\/strong>
Front Matter
Pages 23-23<\/p>

The Increasing Demand for Water Treatment and Reverse Osmosis
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 25-38<\/p>

Technical Overview of the RO Membrane
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 39-52<\/p>

\u25a0The Development of RO Membranes in the United States<\/strong>
Front Matter
Pages 53-53<\/p>

The Beginnings of Research in the Public Sector
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 55-66<\/p>

Development for Commercialization by Private Companies
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 67-84<\/p>

\u25a0The Development of RO Membranes in Japan<\/strong>
Front Matter
Pages 85-85<\/p>

The Rise of Japanese Companies
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 87-103<\/p>

Toray: Development Aimed at Seawater Desalination
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 105-129<\/p>

Toyobo: Focused Development in Cellulose Acetate Hollow Fiber Membranes
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 131-153<\/p>

Nitto Denko: Development Under Earnings Pressure
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 155-181<\/p>

\u25a0Analysis<\/strong>
Front Matter
Pages 183-183<\/p>

Policy Support and Spillover Effects: Initiation of Development in the United States and Japan
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 185-209<\/p>

Exploration of Initial Markets: Application of Unbalanced Performance Bundles
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 211-242<\/p>

Emergence of Breakthrough Technologies and Convergence of Technological Approaches
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 243-266<\/p>

Company-Specific Rationales
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 267-282<\/p>

Long-Term Development Mechanisms Under Uncertainty
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 283-307<\/p>

Contributions and Future Research
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
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