Characteristic Features of Innovation Cycles and Engineering Management in Japan

摘要

The report contains information on the Periodization of Science and Technology in Japan including facts on Japan's so-called 'scientific free ride' and countermeasures and periodization of Japanese history from the viewpoint of scientific progress. It also covers characteristic features of Japan's engineering management in the scientific colony including a keen desire for home production, selective introduction of advance technology and investment priority, group system approach to quality and reliability improvement, vigorous entrepreneurship aimed at breakthroughs and policy guidance through national projects, and a new challenge for an economy dependent on processing trade. It reviews features of innovation cycles in Japan moving into the period of independent science and challenges and trends in engineering management in the period of independent science including Japan's weak points that need to be overcome and offering a place and opportunity for research - a reevaluation of creative engineering's international role.