{"product_id":"9789811948985","title":"Advances in Japanese Business and Economics: Technology and Business Development of Reverse Osmosis Membranes","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAdvances in Japanese Business and Economics: Technology and Business Development of Reverse Osmosis Membranes\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eFujiwara, Masatoshi; Aoshima, Yaichi\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2023-12-17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789811948985\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-981-19-4896-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 372\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Toyo Keizai Inc. (Toyo Keizai Shinposha)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45383291633804,"sku":"9789811948985","price":161.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789811948985.jpg?v=1779574527","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789811948985","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}