Mitsuhiro Kurashige

Social innovation in Sabae city: As a new type of industrial movement in Japan

This paper describes one case of regional manufacturing SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) in Sabae, a small local city in Japan. Their conventional business field was an old-fashioned, low-tech, craft industry. However, the entrepreneur challenged to develop their original material/process technologies based on their conventional tacit knowledge. As a result, their newly developed contemporary technologies enabled to be connected with ICT to produce innovative services on meal delivery. There are many similar stories in the same region. Although they were lack of huge capital investment and support by famous universities/laboratories, such as Silicon Valley in USA, the people in Sabae have successfully grown many innovative entrepreneurs/enterprises in region, by utilizing mutual collaboration/trust in regional community as what we call “social capital.” The case indicates a new wave of “social innovation” in Japanese local area, regarding vitalization of regional industries.

Compatibility-management between innovation and earning: Business management of cutting-edge photonics company, contributing to three nobel prize wins

Hamamatsu Photonics, an excellent Japanese photonics company which started-up in phototubes business as their original vocation indispensable for light detection (HQ; Hamamatsu city, Shizuoka prefecture Japan) and has been growing while keeping high compatibility between innovations and earnings, so as to having contributed to Nobel Prize wins. We investigated the reason why they can effectively balance both innovations and earnings while consistently pursuing the unexplored dreams of photonics through top interviews etc. and as a result, we found that the corporate management systems have been built in a cross sectoral manner such as (1) unique SECI model like in-company knowledge circulation system, (2) open innovation practice system enhancing research and development covering very wide industrial areas around their core technologies, (3) on-site compatibility management between dreams (pursuit of the unknown and the yet-undiscovered) and wallet (earning and expense), (4) autonomous-decentralized management system to meet their customers needs agilely and flexibly and (5) non-achievement-based human resource cultivation system to encourage self-motivated challenges.

One-inch all-electrostatic super-HARP tube and camera for HDTV: a new possibility for very dark images with superfine resolution

A 1-inch HDTV super-HARP camera tube with excellent compatibility between super sensitivity and high picture quality was developed using a newly devised super-HARP target and all-electrostatic electron optical system. A new camera equipped with the tubes demonstrated sensitivity 80 times higher than that of conventional Saticon cameras and an AR response of 45% at 800 TV lines with excellent uniformity over the entire picture area.

1-inch all-electrostatic high-sensitive saticon for hi-vison.

ハイビジョンの普及を促進する一翼になるカメラを高性能化すべく, 撮像管の電子光学系に全静電方式を採用した1インチ管を開発した.AR800=35%, 重量180gとコンパクトで高性能を可能にした全静電方式電子銃について以下に報告する.