After two years in Japan, focusing almost exclusively on Japanese companies as a target market, and now also preparing to move back to the US (for different reasons), this report rings true. Japan, by and large, does not reward innovation. This quote sums it up: "So what do you need to create an environment where innovation and thus knowledge/ creativity thrives? What do you need for a thriving post-industrial econom…
Japan is often described as an earthquake society by historians. Change doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's big.