Technological Forecasting and Social Change

- Presents eight models of micro-open innovation dynamics, suggesting strategies for corporate open innovation - Published in the Technological Forecasting and Social Change (TFSC) journal, among the top 1% in the global innovation economy field

Researchers from Osaka University conducted a series of participatory deliberation workshops at Osaka University in which the participants were asked to consider issues of future society and manufacturing, in general, and as they relate to hydrothermally produced porous glass. In workshops where the perspective of “imaginary future generations” was adopted, participants’ perceptions of the technology’s feasibility and future potentiality changed significantly.

- Proposing a new decision-making model that adds ‘open innovation,’ the main topic of the 21st century economy, to the existing limited rationality model - Expected to present a practical way to overcome the growth limitations of the modern economic system.