Designing the Product Architecture for High Appropriability: The Case of Canon -- Case Study Shimano: Market Creation Through Component Integration -- Invisible Dimensions of Innovation: Strategy for De-commoditization in the Japanese Electronics Industry -- The Customer System and New Product Development: The Material Supplier’s Strategy in Japan -- The Japanese Know-Who Based Model of Innovation Management — Reducing Risk at High Speed -- The Domestic Shaping of Japanese Innovations -- Exploiting “Interface Capabilities” in Overseas Markets: Lessons from Japanese Mobile Phone Handset Manufacturers in the US -- “Fuzzy Front End” Practices in Innovating Japanese Companies -- Implementing Process Innovation — The Case of the Toyota Production System -- Reorientation in Product Development for Multiproject Management: The Toyota Case -- Suppliers’ Involvement in New Product Development in the Japanese Auto Industry — A Case Study from a Product Architecture Perspective -- NPD-Process and Planning in Japanese Engineering Companies — Findings from an Interview Research -- Japanese New Product Advantage: A Comparative Examination -- Differences in the Internationalization of Industrial R&D in the Triad -- Global Innovation and Knowledge Flows in Japanese and European Corporations -- Reducing Project Related Uncertainty in the “Fuzzy Front End” of Innovation — A Comparison of German and Japanese Product Innovation Projects -- From Practice: IP Management in Japanese Companies -- MoT: From Academia to Management Practice — The MoT Implementation Case in a Traditional Japanese Company.