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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458016503321

Titolo

Risk management and innovation in Japan, Britain and the United States / / edited by Ruth Taplin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-20794-8

1-280-24761-4

9786610247615

0-203-02778-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia ; ; 59

Classificazione

85.30

Altri autori (Persone)

TaplinRuth

Disciplina

368

Soggetti

Risk management - Japan

Risk management - Great Britain

Risk management - United States

Technological innovations - Japan

Technological innovations - Great Britain

Technological innovations - United States

Technology transfer - Economic aspects - Japan

Technology transfer - Economic aspects - Great Britain

Technology transfer - Economic aspects - United States

Intangible property - Japan - Management

Intangible property - Great Britain - Management

Intangible property - United States - Management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach / Ruth Taplin and Nick Schymyk -- Emerging risk / Nick Schymyck -- Intangible assets, risk management and insurance : bringing all minds together / Matthew R. Hogg -- Developments in patent enforcement procedure in Japan and England / Anthony Trenton -- Risk transfer in a changing world / Oliver Prior -- Transferring insurable risk / Oliver



Prior -- Recent risk financing innovations : motives, principles and practices / Peter C. Young -- The evolution of enterprise risk management / Gerry Dickinson -- Intellectual property and bridging loans : their emerging roles for the in venture financeand rehabilitation in Japan / Masatoshi Kuratomi.

Sommario/riassunto

Assessing and managing risk is vitally important, and is increasingly studied in a range of areas including politics and international relations, finance and insurance, and innovation and the valuing of intangible assets such as patents and intellectual property. The degree to which innovation is encouraged or otherwise - a key factor for many businesses - depends in part on the attitude towards risk in the context in which it takes place.Taplin considers the different attitudes towards risk and innovation, and the different ways in which risk and innovation are handled, in Japan, Br