JAIST Repository: Innovation Trajectories of Embedded Software : the Case of Automobiles and Mobile Phones in Japan

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https://dspace.jaist.ac.jp/

Title

Innovation Trajectories of Embedded Software :

the Case of Automobiles and Mobile Phones in

Japan

Author(s)

XIE, Zhongquan; MIYAZAKI, Kumiko

Citation

年次学術大会講演要旨集, 27: 321-325

Issue Date

2012-10-27

Type

Conference Paper

Text version

publisher

URL

http://hdl.handle.net/10119/11031

Rights

本著作物は研究・技術計画学会の許可のもとに掲載す

るものです。This material is posted here with

permission of the Japan Society for Science

Policy and Research Management.

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