Title :
The Impact of KIBS on Divisions of Manufacturing Corporations: The Cases of Japan
Author :
Shuo, She ; Nagahira, Akio
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Public Adm., Huazhong Univ. Sci. & Technol. (HUST), Wuhan, China
Abstract :
The paper shows that knowledge, including knowledge but not IPR, contributes to the benefit to R&D divisions of JMCs when they dealing with KIBS. But the production divisions tend to obtain the IPR from KIBS. The price of service, location and size of KIBS can help JMCs to find high quality services. Furthermore, the size of KIBS is the most important criterion to R&D group for choosing KIBS and the location of KIBS is the most important criterion for choosing when production group deal with KIBS.
Keywords :
knowledge management; research and development; Japan; KIBS; R&D division; knowledge intensive business services; manufacturing corporation; Companies; Correlation; Humans; Intellectual property; Production; Quality of service; Technological innovation;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Information Networking and Security (MINES), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing, Jiangsu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8626-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4258-4
DOI :
10.1109/MINES.2010.158
