Abstract
In the field of the innovation generation in Japanese SME manufacturers, exercising proposing capacity to their main customers is becoming the key. Considering manufacturing innovations of Japanese SME manufactures from the viewpoint of distribution of information with their main customers through case sturdy, the content of informational management resources from which SME manufactures can collect are changing from technical information to market information. How to obtain the informational management resources are also changing from the passive way, such as being given several instructions from their main customers, to the positive way, such as managing to obtain. On the other hand, SME manufactures do not entirely disclose their core know-how to their main customers. Through such kind of changes, the room for SME manufactures to exercise proposing capacity to their main customers is expanding rapidly.
