how social media contributes to promoting product innovation is not enough yet. This study thus attempts to analyze … empirically how social media use enhances product innovation based on the survey data to Japanese firms using statistical method … cooperation with consumers are effective to using social media for innovation. Firms use social media effectively for …

topics innovation, catch-up, and sustainability. Innovation is driving catch-up processes and is the condition for a … dynamics, heterogeneity, novelty, and innovation as well as transformation are the most attractive fields in economics today … better understanding of innovation, catch-up, and sustainability, and Schumpeterian economics in general. …