Download or read book Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Japanese Agriculture written by Akira Kiminami and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to comprehensively analyze key issues regarding innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource development in the Japanese agricultural sector. Despite the fact that innovation and entrepreneurship are vital to the development of modern Japanese agriculture, there have been comparatively few studies in this field; in addition, they have been virtually none on measures for developing entrepreneurial human resources or innovation in agriculture. The agricultural sector’s declining competitiveness and sustainability as an industry in Japan are serious concerns, especially in combination with an aging labor force and decreasing farmland. To date, Japanese agricultural policies have largely concentrated on accumulating farmland and securing a sufficient agricultural labor force. However, from the perspectives of industrial and regional development, policies focusing on creating innovation, the driving force of economic development, have been recognized as being more effective. Moreover, there have been some recent developments concerning innovation and entrepreneurship in various regions of Japan. This book provides a wealth of significant findings from studies on successful cases involving e.g. agricultural clusters, agriculture–commerce–industry collaborations, networking, franchising, and corporate entry-induced innovation utilizing limited regional resources; and how they have contributed to the development of each region. The interrelationships between innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource development are then clarified, and effective policies to promote Japanese agriculture and rural areas are suggested. Given its scope, the book contributes to the advancement not only of farm management science, but also of regional science and related fields.

Download or read book Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Japanese Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to comprehensively analyze key issues regarding innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource development in the Japanese agricultural sector. Despite the fact that innovation and entrepreneurship are vital to the development of modern Japanese agriculture, there have been comparatively few studies in this field; in addition, they have been virtually none on measures for developing entrepreneurial human resources or innovation in agriculture. The agricultural sector's declining competitiveness and sustainability as an industry in Japan are serious concerns, especially in combination with an aging labor force and decreasing farmland. To date, Japanese agricultural policies have largely concentrated on accumulating farmland and securing a sufficient agricultural labor force. However, from the perspectives of industrial and regional development, policies focusing on creating innovation, the driving force of economic development, have been recognized as being more effective. Moreover, there have been some recent developments concerning innovation and entrepreneurship in various regions of Japan. This book provides a wealth of significant findings from studies on successful cases involving e.g. agricultural clusters, agriculture-commerce-industry collaborations, networking, franchising, and corporate entry-induced innovation utilizing limited regional resources; and how they have contributed to the development of each region. The interrelationships between innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource development are then clarified, and effective policies to promote Japanese agriculture and rural areas are suggested. Given its scope, the book contributes to the advancement not only of farm management science, but also of regional science and related fields.

Download or read book Innovation Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Japan written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Japan, agriculture has been treated differently from other parts of the national economy. However, policy needs to evolve with new agricultural structures and the global trend towards more integrated value chains, enabling innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture, and imposing a greater environmental responsibility on producers. Modern agriculture is a technology- and data-intensive industry, and Japan is well-positioned to introduce its competitive technology and skills to agriculture through building more collaborative agricultural innovation system.

Download or read book Innovation Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Japan written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social Entrepreneurship Social Business and the Multi functionality of Urban Agriculture written by Lily Kiminami and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-16 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to clarify the relationships between multi-functions of urban agriculture, creative classes, and social business in China and Japan. Specifically, it constructs a new framework showing how these factors contribute to the sustainability of cities by introducing the mixed methods research of structural equation modeling and the trajectory equifinality model. Policy implications drawn from the research suggests that governments should provide opportunities to create a virtuous cycle to improve the accumulation of social capital in order to attract those who think creatively. It is widely agreed that a sustainable city should meet the needs of the present generation without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. However, there has been no completely agreed-upon definition for what a sustainable city should be nor upon the paradigm for what components should be included. On the other hand, there is a possibility that the multi-functions of urban agriculture may attract especially those who are thinking creatively. These creative thinkers have a high level of social capital, pay attention to social issues, and are greatly motivated to find solutions through social enterprises such as agriculture-related business.

Download or read book OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Japan written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Japan, agriculture has been treated differently from other parts of the national economy.

Download or read book Enabling Agri entrepreneurship and Innovation written by Catherine Chan and published by CABI. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict regions face special challenges; not just everyday personal risks, but also the difficulties of building small businesses when real or threatened violence can disrupt business growth cycles and economic security. Alongside establishing secure institutions, building a secure economy is rightly seen as the best way for conflict-torn regions to establish a peaceful future. But current agricultural entrepreneurship training and development starts from an assumption of peace, meaning that it is not always fit for purpose. The result is sub-optimal program design and inefficient use of resources. A product of a collaboration of experts in the fields of agri-business, agricultural marketing, and international development, this book gives officials and agencies developing entrepreneurship programs the practical real-life examples they need.

Download or read book Entrepreneurship and Innovation written by Tim Mazzarol and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the theory, practice and context of entrepreneurship and innovation at both the industry and firm level. It provides a foundation of ideas and understandings designed to shape the reader’s thinking and behaviour to better appreciate the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in modern economies, and to recognise their own abilities in this regard. The book is aimed at students studying advanced levels of entrepreneurship, innovation and related fields as well as practitioners (for example, managers, business owners). As entrepreneurship and innovation are largely indivisible elements and cannot be adequately understood if studied separately, the book provides the reader with an overview of these elements and how they combine to create new value in the market. This edition is updated with recent international research, including research and examples from Europe, the US, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Download or read book OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation Productivity and Sustainability in Food and Agriculture Main Findings from Country Reviews and Policy Lessons written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Markets that function well within a stable regulatory and policy environment are key to improving the productivity and sustainability of the food and agriculture sector. This report contains the main findings and policy lessons gained from a series of wide-ranging country reviews on how government policies can improve sectoral productivity and sustainability through their impact on innovation, structural change, natural resource use, and climate change. Improving the policy environment would require rolling back those policies that distort markets the most and retain farmers in uncompetitive and low-income activities, harm the environment, stifle innovation, slow structural and generational change, and weaken resilience.

Download or read book Agricultural Innovation in Asia written by Teruaki Nanseki and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the major findings of almost all types of innovation in agriculture that includes product and process innovation, marketing and organizational innovation, and extended to institutional changes and social welfare in agricultural innovation in Asia. Specially, this book provides the measuring of these types of agricultural innovation on production, economics, and social welfare. Furthermore, this book provides the overview of smart farming in two advanced countries in Asia in this field, which are China and Japan along with its innovation. This book also aims to give an overview on the development of agricultural innovation in the era of digital agriculture over the world.

Download or read book Agricultural Innovation as Private Activity written by Shin Nagata and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Entrepreneurship in the Asia Pacific Case Studies written by Jing Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to the analysis of the entrepreneurship in successful companies by presenting and comparing a series of case studies in the Asia-Pacific where many new companies have been growing successfully in the 21th century. In total, 5 cases in the manufacturing industry, 4 cases in the services industry, and 3 cases related to new business and social innovation are chosen from The mainland of China, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Malaysia and Vietnam. Each case provides insight into the entrepreneur’s aspiration, the processes of personal and business developments, the factors of success, and the inspirations drawn from the analysis. These cases are analyzed and compared from the viewpoints of entrepreneur’s motivation, ability of foreseeing changes and opportunities in the future business environment, core resources and innovation, knowledge management and culture for the company, determination and ethos. These are critical factors in value creation for customers and the society, especially in the future business environment. Finally, commonalities and uniquenesses in entrepreneurship relevant to industry sectors and social-economic-cultural contexts are clarified and a typical entrepreneurship model in the Asia-Pacific is proposed.

Download or read book Innovation in Japan written by Keith Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese economy has made a remarkable recovery from the so-called ‘Lost Decade’ of the 1990s. This said, demographic trends suggest that Japan will have to show remarkable powers of innovation if it is to continue to prosper in the global economy. For, around the turn of the last century texts published by prominent strategy analysts such as Michael Porter and colleagues were asking whether Japan could continue to compete at all, and in answering this question they not only gained significant global attention, they also appeared to sound the death knell for strategic innovation in Japan. This collection helps put the record straight. It invites authors and editors of previous (Routledge) titles on the topic of ‘Innovation in Japan’ to reflect on how things have moved on – prominent scholars on Japanese innovation such as Martin Hemmert, Cornelia Storz, and Ruth Taplin, all of whom appear in this collection. It brings together fresh perspectives on Japanese-style innovation, from insiders and from outsiders, from scholars and from practitioners, all of whose combined contributions to this book update our understanding of how patterns of innovation in Japan are evolving and thus provide inspiration and guidance for managers and innovators worldwide.

Download or read book Case Studies Insights on Agriculture Innovation 2016 IAAS Series written by Cheng-I Wei and published by Vital Wellspring Education Pte. Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ▏Introduction Although the agricultural technology is developing rapidly nowadays, human impacts on the natural environment and global environmental change are still causing the pressing issues, such as food shortage, food safety or health care, which are critical to the human survival and sustainability and urgent for us to figure out the solutions. In 2016, Dr. Tzong-Ru (Jiun-Shen) Lee, the Professor of Marketing Department of Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, and Kuo-Chang Fu, the Chief Operating Officer of Vital Wellspring Education, Singapore, initiated, and Dr. Cheng-I Wei, the Director of International Programs, university of Maryland, USA, called, an international platform has been built for the knowledge exchanging between academicians, researchers, industry players and policymakers in the fields of agriculture, industrial management, food safety, biotechnology, and medical care. Through the sharing of agriculture-related problems and innovative solutions on the annual conference, we hope to spread the useful ideas and to generate the positive impacts on human life further. That is why we decide to publish this book. Through this book, you could gain the information of the international agricultural trend, challenges, and possible solutions. We hope this book will be helpful for you. ▏Foreword The annual International Agriculture Innovation Conference(IAIC) series started in October 2016 as an assembly platform for leading researchers, educators, and developers to present, discuss, and examine various challenging issues relating to agricultural production and innovation. In January 2018, the International Association for Agricultural Sustainability (IAAS) took IAIC under it swing with expectations that IAIC expands its influence by inviting more agriculture-related professionals to participate in conferences. I sincerely welcome you to join our conference and to share your idea son agriculture sustainability with us. First, I would like to thank the 2016 conference participants who successfully helped us create the IAIC. The IAIC 2016 would not have been successful without their support and cooperation. Next, especially appreciate the assistance and support from the IAIC 2016conference sponsors — Bethesda Scientific Corporation, Taiwan Organic Ville, Taiwan Lilac Women and Children Weldare Association, Sun-Rise Engineering Consultant Company, Ltd. and Sun Gertain. Last but not least, the keynote speakers of IAIC 2016. This book would not have been published without their efforts and contributions. In order to improve current agricultural circumstances and attain environmental sustainability, agriculture innovation has become the primary strategy nowadays toward achieving these goals. The concept of adapting agricultural innovation to every phase of agricultural production and management is the foundation for this book. This book collects information on various agricultural innovation ideas and technologies that have been applied or are being developed for agricultural operations and management indifferent countries. I believe this book will provide you with new and inspiring ideas about the future of agriculture development,and illustrate how innovations in methods and techniques influence agriculture production, environmental sustainability, and the quality of people’s lives around the world.（Dr. Cheng-I Wei, Chairman of IAAS） ▏Preface In 2016, scholars and experts as keynote speakers attended in “2016 International Agricultural Innovation Conference, IAIC” presented their researches. In order to share the research works with others, the scholars and experts publish the book “Agriculture Innovation”, and each chapter is described as following. Chapter1 describes agri-industries are challenged with the major task to produce enough food supplies to meet growing demands, and innovation is applied at every phase of agricultural operation, production, management, and marketing. Chapter 2 focuses on agriculture tourism and the types of agricultural tourism activities in Michigan. Chapter 3 describes the definitions associated with urban agriculture, the factor contributing to the recent growth of urban farming in the United States and in Detroit. Chapter 4 introduces the National Institute of Agro biological Sciences, NARO, Japan, mainly about the development of medical model pigs using cloning and genetic recombination technology. Chapter 5 focuses on the accomplishments of Japanese researchers in genomics-based breeding and genome engineering, both aiming to develop desire crops in providing sufficient food to the world population in the 21stcentury and beyond are introduced. Chapter 6 describes the Finnish innovation system, the Finnish food industry, and Nordic wild berries in Finland. Chapter 7 introduces the new way to operate in the Finnish wild berry business. Chapter 8 focuses on the state of food waste situations and innovation in New Zealand, the seven main concepts also the food chain are covered, food waste reduction initiatives being used in New Zealand along the supply chain, and specific case studies in reducing food waste in New Zealand. Chapter9 introduces traditional and smart packaging methods used in the food packaging industry, the trends that have directly influenced the packaging industry, the most common applications of smart packaging technologies, and the application and acceptance of smart packaging. Chapter 10 mentions current development situation of agriculture in mainland China and innovative development of agriculture in Chinese mainland. Chapter 11 focuses on innovative agricultural development mode pushes forward China’s agriculture modernization and gradually formed a unique development mode featured. Chapter12 introduces the government policies in developing agriculture in Taiwan with “The New Southbound Policy”, “Governmental ‘Five-Plus-Two’ Policy ”, Developing the characteristics of Taiwanese agriculture”, “One Town one product”, “the operations of agricultural organizations”, “cooperation of the industry, official university and research” to enhance the competitiveness of agriculture and to build the agriculture technology advantages. Chapter 13 focuses on increasing the value of Taiwan’s agriculture and sustainable development, the government has pursued “agriculture 4.0”, “rural regeneration”, “innovations in the wholesale market, agriculture online, farmers’ market”, and “the stray birds project, and production”. The authors have expected their researches will make the contribution to the agricultural innovation all over the world. ▏Contents Foreword Preface Introduction of Authors About IAAS Chapter 01．Innovation in Agriculture during Challenging Times．Cheng-I Wei / Alfreda Wei Chapter 02．Agricultural Tourism in Michigan．Pamela Rae Becker Chapter 03．Urban Farming in Detroit．Pamela Rae Becker Chapter 04．New Aspects of Animal Science Research - Contribution to the Medical Field．Dai-ichiro Fuchimoto / Akio Takenaka Chapter 05．Recent Developments of Genomics-based Crop Breeding in Japan．Takashi Matsumoto / Akio Takenaka Chapter 06．Nordic Wild Berries – Superfood for Global Markets．Pekka Kess Chapter 07．Orchestrating International Wild Berry Based Business．Pekka Kess Chapter 08．Food Waste Innovation in New Zealand: Identifying Food Waste Reduction Initiatives along the Food Supply Chain．Miranda Mirosa / Wenting Xu / John Birch Chapter 09．Innovations in Smart Packaging for Consumer Confidence, Food Safety and An Improved Supply Chain．Miranda Mirosa / Kayna Lloyd / John Birch Chapter 10．Agricultural Innovation in Mainland China．Zhang Tianzhu / Liu Caixia /Zhangjie (siyar) / Hou Qian / Yao Kaiqian Chapter 11．Innovative Agricultural Development Mode and Case Analysis in Mainland China．Zhang Tianzhu / Liu Caixia / Zhangjie (siyar) / Hou Qian / Yao Kaiqian Chapter 12．Introduction to Taiwan Agriculture．Tzong-Ru Lee / Chun-Yu Chien Chapter 13．Agricultural Innovation in Taiwan．Tzong-Ru Lee / Chun-Yu Chien

Download or read book Museum Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship written by Haitham Eid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museum Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship makes a contribution towards building a museum perspective of innovation that takes into consideration the unique role of museums in society. Beginning and ending with the idea of museum innovation in a wider sense, the book takes digital innovation as a particular focus. Drawing on innovation theories from business studies and case studies from national museums in the US and the UK, as well as numerous examples of innovative museum projects around the globe, the author unpacks, in practical terms, what it means for museums to be innovative and socially enterprising. As a result, Eid presents a research-based model of innovation in museums, which is flexible enough to be fully or partially adopted by any museum, regardless of size, location, mission or nature of the collections it houses. As such, this model makes innovation in museums scalable, replicable and feasible to start and operate. Supplying the museum studies field with essential terminologies and conceptual frameworks related to innovation, Museum Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship helps to forge new ideas and create common ground with other disciplines. Therefore, the book should be essential reading for academics, researchers and graduate students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, digital humanities and business studies. It should also be of great interest to practitioners working in museums around the globe.

Download or read book Creative Class Revisited The New Analytical Advances written by Amitrajeet A Batabyal and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are now at a point where 'analytical advances' permit researchers to theoretically and empirically formulate, model, and test many of the ideas pertaining to the working of Richard Florida's 'creative class' in interesting and new ways. The kind of advances we have in mind include, but are not limited to, recent developments in growth theory in economics, improvements in statistics and in regional science that permit researchers to analyze data in novel ways, and progress in computer science that allows researchers to take advantage of, for instance, natural language processing. The objective of this book is to demonstrate how new analytical advances permit one to have a richer and more nuanced understanding of the ways in which the creative class has functioned and the ways in which its abilities can be harnessed for the betterment of society at large.

Download or read book Small Firms and Innovation Policy in Japan written by Cornelia Storz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using comparative studies and original research, this book discusses the extent to which the Japanese economy encourages entrepreneurship and innovation.