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Digitalization and New Product Development in Manufacturing SMEs: A Comparative Study of Germany and Japan

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  • MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki
  • Christian RAMMER

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This report presented descriptive results of a novel survey on IT practices in the context of new product development (NPD) in German and Japanese manufacturing SMEs. Based on dedicated questionnaire-based surveys in both countries, the report demonstrated that there are a number of commonalities between German and Japanese SMEs. It is found that German firms are more advanced in use of digital applications, while Japanese firms are more likely to be involved in collaboration for NPD. However, this difference disappears when the business environment faced by both samples is controlled. In terms of business performance impacts of digitalization and NPD process, a complementarity between them regarding specific business partners (supplier or customer firms) is found in Japan, while digital applications with multiple users is positively correlated with business performance in Germany.

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  • MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki & Christian RAMMER, 2020. "Digitalization and New Product Development in Manufacturing SMEs: A Comparative Study of Germany and Japan," Policy Discussion Papers 20007, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
    • Handle: RePEc:eti:polidp:20007
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    1. Gautam Dutta & Ravinder Kumar & Rahul Sindhwani & Rajesh Kr. Singh, 2021. "Digitalization priorities of quality control processes for SMEs: a conceptual study in perspective of Industry 4.0 adoption," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 32(6), pages 1679-1698, August.

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