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Preface -- 1. Innovation Beyond Technology – Introduction -- 2. Reimagining Innovation -- 3. 'Innovation' as an adaptation of 'Progress': Revisiting the epistemological and historical contexts of these terms -- 4. The Light and Shadow of the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- 5. How scientific breakthroughs and social innovations shape the evolution of the healthcare sector -- 6. From crisis to reformulation: innovation in the global drug industry and the alternative modernization of Indian Ayurveda -- 7. Consortium-Based Open Innovation: Exploring a Unique and Optimal Model for Regional Biotechnology Industry -- 8. Environment and social innovation: Why technology never was the solution -- 9. Post-Disaster Community Recovery and Community-based Collaborative Action Research – A Case of Process Evaluation Method for Community Life Improvement – -- 10. Lessons from Fukushima for Responsible Innovation: How to construct a new relationship between science and society? -- 11. Public participation in the setting of research and innovation agenda: virtues and challenges from a philosophical perspective -- 12. Innovation for whom? City experiments and the redefinition of urban democracy -- 13. lmage of Jurisprudence Reconstructed to Enhance Innovation: Liability Allocation for Improved Predictability -- 14. Science as Care: Science and Innovation in Post-Growth Society --

"In the 1980s the performance of Japan's economy was an international success story, and led many economists suggest that the 1990s would be a Japanese decade. Today however, the dominant view today is that Japan is inescapably on a downward slope. Rather than focusing on the evolution of the performance of Japanese capitalism, this book reflects on the changes that it has experienced over the past 30 years, and presents a comprehensive analysis of the great transformation of Japanese capitalism from the heights of the 1980s, through the lost decades of the 1990s, and well into the 21st century. This book posits an alternative analysis of the Japanese economic trajectory since the early 1980s, and argues that whereas policies inspired by neo-liberalism have been presented as a solution to the Japanese crisis, these policies have in fact been one of the causes of the problems that Japan has faced over the past thirty years. Crucially, this book seeks to understand the institutional and organisational changes that have characterised Japanese capitalism since the 1980s, and to highlight in comparative perspective, with reference to the 'neo-liberal moment', the nature of the transformation of Japanese capitalism. Indeed, the arguments presented in this book go well beyond Japan itself, and examine the diversity of capitalism, notably in continental Europe, which has experienced problems which in many ways are also comparable to those of Japan. The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism will appeal to students and scholars of both Japanese politics and economics, as well as those interested in comparative political economy"--

Why are some countries characterized by more income redistribution than others? Based mainly on Trans-Atlantic comparisons, the literature has referred to dissimilarities in preferences for redistribution. In this article, we extend this literature by focusing on multiple dimensions of redistributive preferences and adding Japan to the comparison. More precisely, using data for France, the US, and Japan from ISSP 2009, we apply cross-sectional regression models and the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique to address two distinct questions about preferences for redistribution - the role of government in reducing income gaps and tax progressivity. We find that each of these dimensions are related to different mechanisms: i.e. one depends more on individuals' specific situations, such as income/wealth and social beliefs, as stressed in the literature, whereas the other depends more on an unobservable but common factor within a country, such as the historical and cultural background of each society.

Dans cet article, on se propose d'évaluer les changements intervenus dans les inégalités hommes-femmes depuis le début de la crise contemporaine au Japon. Pour ce faire, on procède tout d'abord à une mise en perspective historique du différentiel de salaire entre les hommes et les femmes depuis les années 1950. Ensuite, on passe en revue deux types d'interprétations contradictoires, positive et négative, de l'évolution depuis le début des années 1990, qu'on ne peut réconcilier qu'en prenant en compte l'évolution globale du marché du travail et des inégalités, marquée respectivement par une montée du chômage et une « resegmentation » du marché du travail suivant de nouvelles lignes de clivage. Enfin, on propose une tentative de conceptualisation, en intégrant le genre dans l'analyse du rapport salarial japonais. Cela permet en retour de comprendre les limites de l'évolution contemporaine et de préciser les enjeux d'une politique d'égalité hommes-femmes digne de ce nom.

"In the 1980s the performance of Japan's economy was an international success story, and led many economists suggest that the 1990s would be a Japanese decade. Today however, the dominant view today is that Japan is inescapably on a downward slope. Rather than focusing on the evolution of the performance of Japanese capitalism, this book reflects on the changes that it has experienced over the past 30 years, and presents a comprehensive analysis of the great transformation of Japanese capitalism from the heights of the 1980s, through the lost decades of the 1990s, and well into the 21st century. This book posits an alternative analysis of the Japanese economic trajectory since the early 1980s, and argues that whereas policies inspired by neo-liberalism have been presented as a solution to the Japanese crisis, these policies have in fact been one of the causes of the problems that Japan has faced over the past thirty years. Crucially, this book seeks to understand the institutional and organisational changes that have characterised Japanese capitalism since the 1980s, and to highlight in comparative perspective, with reference to the 'neo-liberal moment', the nature of the transformation of Japanese capitalism. Indeed, the arguments presented in this book go well beyond Japan itself, and examine the diversity of capitalism, notably in continental Europe, which has experienced problems which in many ways are also comparable to those of Japan. The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism will appeal to students and scholars of both Japanese politics and economics, as well as those interested in comparative political economy"--