International Journal of Managing Information Technology (IJMIT)

top cited articles In 2019 International Journal Of Managing Information Technology (IJMIT) http://airccse.org/journal/ijmit/ijmit.html Issn: 0975-5586 (Online); 0975-5926 (Print)   A New Concept Of R&D In NEO Open Innovation - Transformation Of R&D Triggered By Amazon Yuji Tou 1 , Chihiro Watanabe 2, 3 , Kuniko Moriya 2, 4 , Victor Vurpillat 5 , Pekka Neittaanmäki 2 , 1 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 2 University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 3 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria,   4 Research and Statistics Department, Bank of Japan, Japan and 5 Global Connexus Inc., USA ABSTRACT Amazon was the world’s top R&D firm in 2017. Its R&D investment was double that of 2015, quintuple that of 2012, and tenfold that of 2011. It deploys a unique R&D model as conducting “routine or periodic alternations” and “significant improvement” simultaneously. Since tradit...

top cited articles In 2018 International Journal Of Managing Information Technology (IJMIT) http://airccse.org/journal/ijmit/ijmit.html Issn: 0975-5586 (Online); 0975-5926 (Print) Neo Open Innovation in the Digital Economy: Harnessing Soft Innovation Resources Yuji Tou 1 , Chihiro Watanabe 2, 3 , Kuniko Moriya 4, 5 , Pekka Neittaanmaki 6 1 Dept. of Ind. Engineering &Magm, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan 2, 5, 6 Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland 3 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria 4 Research and Statistics Department, Bank of Japan, Tokyo, Japan 6 Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland ABSTRACT Successive increases in R&D that creates new functionality are essential for global competitiveness. However, unexpectedly, as a consequence of the two-faced nature of information and communication technolog...