産業特性からみた日本デジタルスチルカメラ産業の国際競争力

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This article analyzes why Japanese Digital Still Camera (DSC) industry continues maintaining competition in the international market. The article pays attention to an industrial characteristic and analyzes it.
In conclusion, (1) The industrial characteristic of DSC industry caused upgrading of competition phase (2) The Japanese companies were able to fit upgrading of competition phase (3) The almost foreign companies were not able to fit, because they did not have “capability of picture making” (4) The foreign companies had little learning opportunities about “capability of picture making” (5) They continued playing second fiddle to Japanese companies, because they were not able to catch up with Japanese companies in product evolution.
I set three research problems to lead a conclusion in this article. (A) What kind of thing is the industrial characteristic of DSC industry? (B) What kind of thing is “capability of picture making”? (C) Why were not many foreign companies able to get “capability of picture making”?