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- Sheds light on the development of renewable energy in Japan
- Examines new technology and new industry creation processes through government–industry–academia collaboration
- Analyzes solar energy policy and government and industry decision making surrounding the policy
- Tells the same historic story in three different ways through varying perspectives
Part of the book series: Advances in Japanese Business and Economics (AJBE, volume 25)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book clarifies the challenges and outcomes of the Sunshine Project, a national project in Japan for developing new energy that was launched about 40 years ago at the time of the first oil crisis in the early 1970s and ended, as planned, in the early 2000s. The Sunshine Project was the government’s national project for developing new energy technologies such as solar energy and other natural energy sources—what we call renewable energy today.
The book considers why policies were successful in some areas but did not have the intended effect in other areas. It explains how technology innovation was employed to achieve energy policy goals and to tackle environmental issues. If we can present suggestions for how to structure national projects, it may also be possible to identify ways for industry, government, and academia to come together to find solutions not only to environmental energy problems, but also to other social problems. Herein lies the goal of this book.
Although the development of new energy is the main subject of the book, the author also scrutinizes the governmental decision-making process involved in planning policy, the creative process, and the design of systems of collaboration between industry, government, and academia as well as cases where corporations have developed commercial versions of new energy products.
The main part of the book consists of three case studies interspersed with two reflective chapters. The first case study describes the Sunshine Project from the perspective of project management based on the perspective of government. The second case study is a detailed examination of the routines in all organizations, whether industry, government, or academia, and of the autonomy of the project organization. The third case study increases the degree of detail to focus on the smallest unit of analysis, the intentions and motivations of key individuals participating in the project.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Japan
Minoru Shimamoto
About the author
Minoru Shimamoto is a professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration of Hitotsubashi University, where he received his Ph.D. in commerce and management in 1999. His research focuses on business history, innovation, and sustainability. He won the 58th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science in 2015 from the Japan Center for Economic Research and the Takamiya Award from the Academic Association for Organizational Science (AAOS) in 2016.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: National Project Management
Book Subtitle: The Sunshine Project and the Rise of the Japanese Solar Industry
Authors: Minoru Shimamoto
Series Title: Advances in Japanese Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3180-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-3179-8Published: 11 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-3182-8Published: 12 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-3180-4Published: 10 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2197-8859
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8867
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 331
Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Business and Management, general, Management, Renewable and Green Energy, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Economic History