Mechanisms for long-term innovation : technology and business development of reverse osmosis membranes / Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima.
2022
TD480.4
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Title
Mechanisms for long-term innovation : technology and business development of reverse osmosis membranes / Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima.
Author
Fujiwara, Masatoshi.
ISBN
9789811948961 (electronic bk.)
9811948968 (electronic bk.)
981194895X
9789811948954
9811948968 (electronic bk.)
981194895X
9789811948954
Published
Singapore : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-19-4896-1 doi
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TD480.4
Dewey Decimal Classification
628.1/674
Summary
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. 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. 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.
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References -- Part I Overview -- 2 The Increasing Demand for Water Treatment and Reverse Osmosis -- 2.1 The Growing Demand for Water Treatment -- 2.2 Widespread Use of the Reverse Osmosis Method -- 2.2.1 From the Evaporation Method to the Reverse Osmosis Method -- 2.2.2 Development of Various Applications -- 2.3 Industry Structure and Competition -- 2.3.1 Basic Structure of the Water Treatment Industry by the Membrane Method -- 2.3.2 Market Share Trends -- 2.3.3 Price Competition -- 2.4 Summary -- References -- 3 Technical Overview of the RO Membrane -- 3.1 Reverse Osmosis Phenomenon
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Aoshima, Yaichi, author.
Series
Advances in Japanese business and economics ; 31.
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MECHANISMS FOR LONG-TERM INNOVATION.
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Table of Contents
The increasing demand for water treatment and reverse osmosis
Technical overview of the RO membrane
The beginnings of research in the public sector
Development for commercialization by private companies
The rise of Japanese companies.
Technical overview of the RO membrane
The beginnings of research in the public sector
Development for commercialization by private companies
The rise of Japanese companies.