System competency of SMEs in Japan from the viewpoint of Information Technology (IT) and Knowledge-Intensive Services (KIS)

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Japan Small Business Research Institute (JSBRI) schedules to perform two surveys in 2010 covering all Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Japan. The first survey is on the capacity for adopting information technology (IT) to clarify current implementation, internal operation system, and market conditions regarding IT. The second survey is on human resources specifically designed to clarify SME's role on the system competence and external sources for innovation. In line with these surveys, this paper discusses Bayesian methodology to analyze latent variables for verifying system competency from the viewpoint of Knowledge-intensive Services (KIS) in the context of service economy.