Risk Management and Innovation in Japan, Britain and the USA

Ruth Taplin is Director of the Centre for Japanese and East Asian Studies which won Exporter of the Year in Partnership in Trading/Pathfinder for the UK in the year 2000. She received her doctorate from the London School of Economics and is the author/editor of 11 books and numerous articles. She published Valuing Intellectual Property in Japan, Britain and the United States with RoutledgeCurzon in 2004 and is currently preparing Japanese Telecommunications Market and Policy in Transition for publication by Routledge. Professor Taplin has been Editor of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics for ten years. Currently she is a Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London and the University of Leicester. She was recently appointed Visiting Professor at the School of International Business and Management, University of Warsaw, Poland.

'This is a useful text, particularly for those interested in cultural differences between East and West, and approaches to 'softer' risk areas in each.' - Inform Magazine'This groundbreaking book offers fresh insights and analysis on the distinctive ways business in Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom responds to risk and innovation.' - japansociety'The book provides solid material from a clear and informed position.' - IET Engineering Management

• Introduction: An Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Approach  1. Emerging Risk  2. Intangible Assets, Risk Management and Insurance: Bringing all Minds Together  3.  Developments in Patent Enforcement Procedure in Japan and England  4. Risk Transfer in a Changing World  5. Transferring Insurable Risk  6. Recent Risk Financing Innovations: Motives, Principles and Practices  7. The Evolution of Enterprise Risk Management  8. Intellectual Property and Bridging Loans: Their Emerging Roles for the Venture and Rehabilitation Businesses in Japan