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Research and Development Competition and Innovation in the Video Cassette Recorder Industry

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Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies

Part of the book series: Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy ((SMJE))

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Abstract

This chapter examines a significant example of accumulation of technology in post-war Japan: the development process of the VCR for home use, and the dynamic evolution process of the mass market. The purpose of this analysis of the Japanese home VCR industry is two-fold: the first is to clarify how and why only the Japanese makers had succeeded in developing home VCR and thus dominated the global mass market; and the second is to clarify the dynamic process of industrial evolution.

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  1. Joung-hae Seo
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

    Ryōshin Minami (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

    Kwan S. Kim (Professor of Economics and Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute) (Professor of Economics and Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute)

  3. Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Fumio Makino (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  4. Institute of Business Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

    Joung-hae Seo (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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© 1995 Ryōshin Minami, Kwan S. Kim, Fumio Makino and Joung-hae Seo

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Seo, Jh. (1995). Research and Development Competition and Innovation in the Video Cassette Recorder Industry. In: Minami, R., Kim, K.S., Makino, F., Seo, Jh. (eds) Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies. Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23775-3_11

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