Global Companies, Local Innovations: Why the Engineering Aspects of Innovation Making Require Co-location...

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Yasuyuki Motoyama Professor Peter Nijkamp

Global Companies, Local Innovations

Why the Engineering Aspects of Innovation Making Require Co-location

Yasuyuki Motoyama, Professor Peter Nijkamp, Professor Jessie P. H. Poon , Professor Mike Taylor

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Routledge
28 September 2012

Multinationals; Economic geography

Investigating the innovation activities of multinational corporations, this book uncovers and examines why the geography of innovation by multinationals is overwhelmingly local, in spite of their global operations in manufacturing and sales through case studies of produce development by three global players: Toyota, Sony, and Canon.

The microdynamic approach of the book allows an in-depth investigation of the engineering and technical aspects of innovation making. The book unfolds the complex and constant process of trial and error in innovation and reveals three fundamental natures of innovation making: complexity, interdisciplinarity, and prototyping and testing. In order to manage these three natures of innovation, firms have to plan, ironically, for unplanned situations and to collocate knowledge, people, and resources.

By: Yasuyuki Motoyama
Series edited by: Professor Peter Nijkamp, Professor Jessie P. H. Poon, Professor Mike Taylor
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781409421467
ISBN 10: 1409421465
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 28 September 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Yasuyuki Motoyama is a senior Scholar in Research and Policy and with Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.