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■ Welcome Message
Receiving tremendous support from institutional and individual participants in a wide range of industries, government and academic institutions, Corporate Innovation System Renaissance Project (the Renaissance Project for short) was established in June 2003. The Project aims to promote innovation in Japanese manufacturing industry through intensive joint research projects among industrial, governmental, and academic sectors. The goal of the Project is to increase the number of corporations that possess technology-based high growth potential and thus to strengthen the industrial competitiveness of Japan.
Casual tactics do not sufficiently create industrial competitiveness. True competitiveness is generated through multiple discourses based on enduring data gathering, analyses, and facts although it may seem lengthy. Study results become concrete proposals, which need to be tested in the real world practice.
For this very reason this project invites prominent scholars in the area of innovation and conducts in-depth research and analyses, while the business community validates the project through independent corporate membership from a wide range of business sectors. The Renaissance Project’s unique corporate membership structure promotes diverse participants. The project enjoys rapid growth, which is expected to continue.
Kiyonori SAKAKIBARA, Project Leader
January 2005
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"What would be the ideal innovation system for building Japan's
industrial competitiveness?" To answer this question, in collaboration with
organizations and individuals in the business, academic and government sectors
worldwide, the project will conduct studies focused on the essence of innovation
systems used mainly by companies. In doing so, the project will elucidate on the
current state of innovation management by Japanese companies and propose new technology
management models that will enable Japanese manufacturing companies acquire/build
competitiveness. |
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The studies carried out by this project will enable participating companies develop prescriptions for solving problems on their own. The project also envisions using study results to create theoretical frameworks and make widely available new Japanese-style technology management methods that are applicable to a variety of industries and businesses. |
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Studies carried out in this project will consist of ﾒmicroﾓ studies
on individual companies, with close attention to R&D activities and the management
of the fruits of R&D, and "macro" studies on socio-economic trends.
The first phase of studies is currently underway focusing on the electronics and
pharmaceuticals industries. |
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To carry out real-world studies reflecting differences among industries,
the project envisions assembling an "All Japan" team of collaborating
researchers from both academic institutions and private sector companies representing
a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. |
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