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Mechanisms for long-term innovation : technology and business development of reverse osmosis membranes / Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima.

9789811948961 (electronic bk.)
9811948968 (electronic bk.)
981194895X
9789811948954

Singapore : Springer, 2022.

English

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

10.1007/978-981-19-4896-1 doi

TD480.4

628.1/674

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.

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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Advances in Japanese business and economics ; 31.

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