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Preparing the move from know-how to know-who: why yet another book onJapanese management? the innovation performance gap - causes andconsequences; a brief study of T&I management at Toshiba computers; aholistic network approach to T&I management; main objectives of the study;research strategy and summarised contents of the study. Part 2 Identifyingthe dilemmas of innovation: crystallising the picture of Japanese T&Imanagement; universal theories on R&D and innovation; is technologicalleadership a competitive weapon? the dilemma of technological leadership; theorganisational dilemma of innovation; the paradoxical needs of radicalinnovation. Part 3 Surrounding R&D networks: a brief introduction to Japanesecorporate networks; R&D linkages in Kinyu Shudan; R&D linkages in the KigyoKeiretsu structure; Keiretsy interlinkages of Canon, Sony and Toyota;governmental R&D networks; additional linkages to external sources oftechnology. Part 4 Canon Inc.: introduction; intraorganisational aspects ofR&D and technology; promoting know-who to support the innovation process;developing the miniDiscman through corporate-wide; technology fusion. Part 6Toyota Motor Corporation: brief introduction; intraorganisational aspects ofR&D and technology; managing complexity in seamless innovation processes;developing the lexus - declaring war with Germany. Part 7 Cross-caseanalysis: acquiring inventiveness from extracorporate sources of technology;creating corporate synergies in T&I management; attuning intracorporate R&Dto global market needs; managing a seamless transfer from R&D to production;managing the project creation process; interlinking and coordinating vitalactors, activities and resources in the holistic T&I projects; summarisingsimilarities and differences across the cases. Part 8 Moving from know-how toknow-who: concluding remarks on Canon, Sony and Toyota; circumventing thedilemmas of innovation - explaining the performance gap; personalobservations versus current literature; historical rationales of networkingin Japanese T&I management; six critical principles are lacking in manywestern companies; practical implications for T&I management.