Compatibility-management between innovation and earning: Business management of cutting-edge photonics company, contributing to three nobel prize wins

Mitsuhiro Kurashige, Makoto Hirano, Sadayo Hirata, Kiyonori Sakakibara

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Abstract

Hamamatsu Photonics, an excellent Japanese photonics company which started-up in phototubes business as their original vocation indispensable for light detection (HQ; Hamamatsu city, Shizuoka prefecture Japan) and has been growing while keeping high compatibility between innovations and earnings, so as to having contributed to Nobel Prize wins. We investigated the reason why they can effectively balance both innovations and earnings while consistently pursuing the unexplored dreams of photonics through top interviews etc. and as a result, we found that the corporate management systems have been built in a cross sectoral manner such as (1) unique SECI model like in-company knowledge circulation system, (2) open innovation practice system enhancing research and development covering very wide industrial areas around their core technologies, (3) on-site compatibility management between dreams (pursuit of the unknown and the yet-undiscovered) and wallet (earning and expense), (4) autonomous-decentralized management system to meet their customers needs agilely and flexibly and (5) non-achievement-based human resource cultivation system to encourage self-motivated challenges.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPICMET 2016 - Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology
Subtitle of host publicationTechnology Management For Social Innovation, Proceedings
EditorsTimothy R. Anderson, Dundar F. Kocaoglu, Kiyoshi Niwa, Gary Perman, Dilek Cetindamar Kozanoglu, Tugrul U. Daim
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages937-944
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781509035953
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Jan 4
Event2016 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, PICMET 2016 - Honolulu, United States
Duration: 2016 Sept 42016 Sept 8

Publication series

NamePICMET 2016 - Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology: Technology Management For Social Innovation, Proceedings

Conference

Conference2016 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, PICMET 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHonolulu
Period16/9/416/9/8

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