A Study on the Innovation Process - Governance and Japanese Culture

Innovation is a key for the growth and the evolution of a corporation. We are seeking what is essential for the innovation and what is newly required for the corporate management. We will show our experience of 1-1 diode development, based on which we propose the four stages of innovation; jumping from the ordinary framework, recurring to it, systemization and civilization. This innovation process is also explained from the view point of the sense of human beings; aesthetic sense, which is usually thought as for the arts. Another important point is the concept of governance which is more philosophical than the concept of management. It is shown that the role of corporate management is explained clearly by the concept of governance as well as that of management