Expectation of Japan's System of MOT to the Ubiquitous Society

摘要

Dynamics of innovation can be identified as institutional innovation. Co-evolutionary dynamism between emergence of innovation and advancement of institutional systems is decisive for an innovation driven economy. This economy may stagnate if institutional systems can not adapt to evolving innovations as current Japan's economy is experiencing.While Japan's system of MOT (management of technology) indigenously incorporates an explicit function to induce this co-evolutionary dynamism, current stagnation can be attributed to a systems conflict due to a paradigm shift from an industrial society to an information society resulting in impeding this co-evolutionary dynamism. Therefore, elucidation of the mechanism of this dynamism by identifying the source impeding the dynamism is useful for conceptualizing and operationalizing the co-evolutionary dynamism accruing to global knowledge assets in a ubiquitous society characterized by "on demand," "all actors participation and cooperation," and "seamless" community.This paper, on the basis of an empirical analysis focusing on the dynamism and its developing trajectory of Japan's system of MOT, attempts to demonstrate this postulate.