The Resources of Enterprises and the Corresponding Research and Development Strategies: The Cases of Canon and HitachiSoft in the DNA Chip Business

Abstract

The necessity of open innovation and external linkage has become widely known recently. However in R&D management independent development or external linkage utilization a chips, one of the typical new technologies, we demonstrate that the research and development strategies differs depending on the difference of management resources of each enterprise based on the patent data, using the cases of Canon which drives independent development and HitachiSoft which promotes open innovation.