Overview
- Won the 2020 Schumpeter Prize from The International Schumpeter Society
- Explains how institutions promoting spin-outs from incumbents develop general purpose technology
- Scrutinizes longitudinally the technological development of laser diodes in the US and Japan from the 1950s to the 2000s
Part of the book series: Advances in Japanese Business and Economics (AJBE, volume 21)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Part III
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About this book
This book focuses on exploring the relationship between spin-outs from incumbents and the patterns of innovation in general purpose technology. Do spin-outs really promote innovation? What happens if star scientists leave the incumbents and establish a startup to target untapped markets? Entrepreneurial spin-outs have been recognized as an engine of innovation. General purpose technology, such as the steam engine in the Industrial Revolution, has been considered an engine of growth. This book provides new perspectives on how entrepreneurial spin-outs shape the patterns of innovation in general purpose technology by integrating theoretical findings in industrial organizations and includes innovation studies and detailed evidence from a longitudinal case study. Concretely, by longitudinally exploring the technological development of laser diodes in the USA and Japan, this study examines how the existence or absence of an entrepreneurial strategic choice for spin-outs influences the patterns of subsequent technological development. The longitudinal analysis in this book shows that spin-outs could hinder the subsequent development of existing technology when that technology is still at a nascent level, because the cumulative effects of technological development could disappear if research and development personnel leave their parent firms in order to target different sub-markets. The findings of this book show that institutional settings designed to promote spin-outs do not necessarily promote innovation. The book offers novel theoretical insights into the relationship between institutions promoting spin-outs and the developments of general purpose technology.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hiroshi Shimizu is a professor at the Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University. Dr. Shimizu received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2007. After postdoctoral work at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in 2007-2008, he joined Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Innovation Research (IIR) in 2008. He served as a professor at the IIR between 2011 and 2019. His research interests include, Employee Startups, General Purpose Technology, Innovation Patterns, and Competitive Strategy. He has published in journals including Research Policy, Business History Review, and Journal of Evolutionary Economics.
His Japanese language book Jieneraru Pāpasu Tekunorojī no Inobueshon (Innovations in General Purpose Technology) (Yuhikaku Publishing Co.,Ltd.) won the 59th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science 2016 by The Japan Center for Economic Research. The English translation of this book General Purpose Technology, Spin-Out, and Innovation - Technological Development of Laser Diodes in the United States and Japan (Springer, 2019) was awarded the 2020 Schumpeter Prize from The International Schumpeter Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: General Purpose Technology, Spin-Out, and Innovation
Book Subtitle: Technological Development of Laser Diodes in the United States and Japan
Authors: Hiroshi Shimizu
Series Title: Advances in Japanese Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3714-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3713-0Published: 29 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3714-7Published: 17 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2197-8859
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8867
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 312
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations
Topics: Institutional/Evolutionary Economics, Industrial Organization, Economic History, Entrepreneurship, Innovation/Technology Management