Download or read book Intellectual Property and the New Global Japanese Economy written by Ruth Taplin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how intellectual property (IP) is used in Japan, and how in recent years it has developed a new approach to IP, borrowed from the US and Europe, stressing the importance of innovation, to revitalise the Japanese economy from the stagnation and deflation that characterised the 1990s.