R&D Management for the Knowledge Co-creation: From the perspectives of diversity and incentive design

Abstract

This special issue contains papers that discuss how R&D management should be to promote innovation, focusing on the diversity and incentive design. They cover a wide range of topics, including management of human resource diversity within departments, management of sharing and combining different knowledge among departments, and management of actors in an innovation system. The papers in this issue also differ in their academic approaches, such as management, economics, and law. We hope that this diversity of perspectives and approaches will provide readers with novel ideas of analytical themes and methods, as well as of new application of existing research.