Browsing by Author "Yuji Tou"

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    Co-emergence of Institutional Innovation Navigates the New Normal in Growing Economies
    (Chitkara University Publications, 2013-04) Weilin Zhao; Chihiro Watanabe; Yuji Tou
    Increasing fear of the global simultaneous stagnation derived from the Euro-crisis together with the New Normal in growing economies reveals the limit of individual strength leading to the significance of fusion with global best practices. Dramatic advancement of the Internet has enabled consumers in any nation to choose and learn from world’s strongest suppliers. Both trends inevitably necessitate co-emergence of institutional innovation between suppliers and consumers for sustainability. On the basis of an empirical analysis comparing institutional systems in 100 nations, this paper demonstrates the significance of this co-emergence thereby navigating the New Normal in growing economies.
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    International Cooperation Towards Decarbonization, Originating from India – Case Analysis of Industrial Cooperation in the Semiconductor Sector between India, Japan, and Taiwan
    (Chitkara University Publications, 2024-04-10) Takashi Hattori; Yuji Tou; Chihiro Watanabe
    Background: Climate change represents a global challenge that cannot be mitigated by any single nation. Notably, CO2 emissions from the Southern Hemisphere are escalating rapidly, currently constituting two-thirds of the global total. The proactive efforts of India, which leads this group, are noteworthy. Purpose: This study aims to elucidate the impact of international cooperation on decarbonization, with a specific focus on the semiconductor industry in India, a representative nation of the Global South. The current state of collaboration between Japan, Taiwan, and India serves as an exemplar of international efforts towards decarbonization. Furthermore, the strategic significance of industrial collaboration in the semiconductor sector among Japan, India, and Taiwan, and the potential for establishing a global semiconductor supply chain oriented towards decarbonization, are examined. Method: This study employs a case study methodology to scrutinize the current status of international collaboration in the semiconductor industry among India, Japan, and Taiwan. Result: The Japanese semiconductor industry, renowned for its advanced technical capabilities, necessitates the fortification of the global supply chain and technology transfer, with collaboration with India proving advantageous. Taiwan, actively expanding its presence in India, seeks to enhance the quality and efficiency of semiconductor manufacturing and to form diverse supply chains, thereby accelerating innovation through collaboration with Japan. A synergistic relationship in the semiconductor industry is being established among India, Japan, and Taiwan. Conclusion: India possesses the potential to assume a pivotal role in the construction of a global semiconductor supply chain, with Japan and Taiwan identified as optimal partners. This collaboration is anticipated to bolster manufacturing capabilities aimed at decarbonization, contribute to international decarbonization efforts, and drive technological advancements as part of global next-generation technology management.
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    Technology Leapfrogging: Findings from Singapore’s Water Industry
    (Chitkara University Publications, 2010-10) Michele Y.C. Chew; Chihiro Watanabe; Yuji Tou
    This paper illustrates Singapore’s strategy in catching up with global water treatment nations. Water is an important economic resource for Singapore, creating value-added jobs and stimulating research and development in various related technology trajectories. The analysis shows that from a nation lacking in competence in the water industry, Singapore has successfully transformed herself into a global hydrohub, exporting indigenous capabilities and offering consultancy for water projects. With long-term government policies and funding support for initial R&D and subsequent industry R&D inducement by means of the introduction of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) programme, Singapore has been able to build up her competence in waste water treatment. This is probably the first paper that analyses the development of the water industry in Singapore from the management of technology and policy perspectives.
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    Vibrant Eco-system Creation for Sustainability: A Lesson from Singapore’s Water Industry
    (Chitkara University Publications, 2011-04) Michele Y.C. Chew; Chihiro Watanabe; Yuji Tou
    Through a stepwise national strategy of importing technology, building indigenous capabilities through learning and assimilating imported technology to exporting the indigenous capabilities, Singapore has successfully caught up with the nations that are advanced in the technologies related to water treatment. From the macro-numerical phenomenon observed, this paper aims to provide both qualitative and quantitative evidences of this co-evolutionary dynamism between innovation and institutional systems. Realising the issue as a comprehensive technology chain and its substitution for traditional resources, sophisticated combination of government stimulation and industry participation leading to a Global Hydrohub has induced world leading-edge innovation involvement. Such a vibrant eco-system aiming at overcoming the constraints for sustainable growth can be applied not only to water management but also to energy and climate change issues. Policy makers in emerging economies can adapt the successful practices and note the pitfalls in establishing the vibrant eco-system that is essential for sustainable environmental solutions for their economies.