Japan's creativity Options

[darkupheaval]

Japan is unrivaled in all technology sectors for key inventions in 2006 and 2007 according to the latest trilateral patent analysis. This means that Japan has a very capable workforce for innovation; furthermore, it suggests that Japan has a group of elite intellectuals rivaling any other group. Japan's extraordinary creativity and capabilities for innovation is supported by this evidence, which is consistent with scholastic aptitudes and intelligence quotient of the Japanese students. Moreover, Japan's geographical situation incites the government to invest heavily in technology development in contrast to basic science for greater export revenues, although there is a gradual effort to detach from that investment strategy for the prospect of a spill-over effect. Contrarily to the U.S., Japan invests mainly in the private sector, which ties innovation activities to commercial interests; for instance, investment in robotics are made as it has a foreseeable market in the future. Despite, Japan's focus on technology development, it has produced a scientific elite that includes Nobel laureates. There is no physiological factor that was found to cause high creativity. We can speculate that a genetic predisposition to high intelligence predisposes also for high creativity.

[darkupheaval]

'The Japanese are not creative, they just copy….' This prejudice often crops up when you ask Western people about the creativity of the Japanese. However, Japanese industry is at the leading edge in many industrial sectors and one cannot adhere to this prejudice any longer. Japanese creativity is interesting from two points of view. First, Japanese industry is very competitive and the success cannot be explained by a single factor, like low wages or production costs. Secondly, there is a big difference between Japanese and western civilization and a comparison shows cultural influences on creativity in understanding and practice. However, the cultural specialities which are labelled as Japanese are mostly characteristic of other East Asian cultures as well.

[manko]

'The Japanese are not creative, they just copy….' This prejudice often crops up when you ask Western people about the creativity of the Japanese. However, Japanese industry is at the leading edge in many industrial sectors and one cannot adhere to this prejudice any longer. Japanese creativity is interesting from two points of view. First, Japanese industry is very competitive and the success cannot be explained by a single factor, like low wages or production costs. Secondly, there is a big difference between Japanese and western civilization and a comparison shows cultural influences on creativity in understanding and practice. However, the cultural specialities which are labelled as Japanese are mostly characteristic of other East Asian cultures as well.

But odds are if we're talking modern day, these 'cultural specialties' were idealize by other East Asian cultures because of Japanese advancement.

[hookergege]

Japan is amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FvQ_pp1VFI...re=channel_page

[Avitech]

wtf

[MyNameIsVu]

Japan is unrivaled in all technology sectors for key inventions in 2006 and 2007 according to the latest trilateral patent analysis. This means that Japan has a very capable workforce for innovation; furthermore, it suggests that Japan has a group of elite intellectuals rivaling any other group. Japan's extraordinary creativity and capabilities for innovation is supported by this evidence, which is consistent with scholastic aptitudes and intelligence quotient of the Japanese students. Moreover, Japan's geographical situation incites the government to invest heavily in technology development in contrast to basic science for greater export revenues, although there is a gradual effort to detach from that investment strategy for the prospect of a spill-over effect. Contrarily to the U.S., Japan invests mainly in the private sector, which ties innovation activities to commercial interests; for instance, investment in robotics are made as it has a foreseeable market in the future. Despite, Japan's focus on technology development, it has produced a scientific elite that includes Nobel laureates. There is no physiological factor that was found to cause high creativity. We can speculate that a genetic predisposition to high intelligence predisposes also for high creativity.

Don't know, have not live there. I like theirs consumer product. Here in America and the West in general, they have micro bugs, supercomputer, hollographic imaging, satilites tech, silent motor, as well as biotechnology that mimic facial characteristics, and relative top of the line indicators tech,... But yeah, the American and West suck, theirs not what I would call good people. They perhaps think they are smart, but man, they are stupid and greedy and lowlife. I hope some of them burn in hell where they rightfully belongs. Ha ha ha, did not know Asian are the sucker here, ha ha ha...ha oh wait I am Asian.

[GreenWasabi]

In terms of commercial, or patentable, technology, Japan is the clear leader and in all patentable technology fields as indicated by the most recent data on innovation. Despite contradictory claims found on the Internet, the statement is true—those contradictory claims stem from pure ignorance, or lack of knowledge and understanding about the statistics they use to base those claims, or perhaps they are simply outdated. Per capita, both Japan and South Korea have the most patents by far than any countries. Japan is the world leader or among the best in certain science fields such as material science. Moreover, instead of the absolutist perspective of Westerners, one should adopt a more relativist perspective when interpreting those statistics. Japanese R&D investment practices differs from that of the U.S., it allocates its R&D funds in the private sector mainly—which means that investment priorities are affected by profitability. The U.S. invest more in the public sector than Japan. Moreover, Japan invest far less in basic sciences than the U.S., which the number of scientists in those respective countries suggests. The U.S. also practices patent inflation and a lot more so than Japan. For instance, the U.S. pushed for patent inflation in order to include software innovations—this can be seen as a political move in order to protect U.S. interests. Being the first mover, it greatly benefited them as they were the first to mobilize their local industry. One must know when analyzing patent statistics, that the number of patent application is less reliable than the number of patent granted. Also, international patent, contrarily to national patent, only has a procedural distinction and is not indicative of innovation. The best reliable data for important patentable innovation is the trilateral patent data. Moreover, when a group has a higher average IQ, it means it has a lot more geniuses than the group it surpasses given an equal, higher and even lower standard deviation depending on the value. Nothing suggests that East Asians have a lower standard deviation; however, we can rule out immediately any contradictory claim to the one that states that the difference is all but negligible—East Asians may even have a higher standard deviation considering biological and psychometric data we have until now. East Asians have the highest IQ out of all ethnicities and race, Ashkenazi Jews have a verbal IQ of 107.5, which corresponds roughly to an IQ of 103, they also have a higher gC than gF contrarily to East Asians.

Interesting links:

http://www.apfn.net/Messageboard/02-14-04/...ion.cgi.24.html

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070518/j...tion-leader.htm

[Forummember]

How many patents a country claims doesnt say everything about that country's creativity.

Just want to know: What are best inventions made by Japan?

I mean inventions that have (or had) a big influeance on every day life of all people like: internet, jet engine, a car, bow and arrow, sth like that.

This post has been edited by Forummember: Jul 28 2009, 07:35 AM

[manko]

How many patents a country claims doesnt say everything about that country's creativity.

Just want to know: What are best inventions made by Japan?

I mean inventions that have (or had) a big influeance on every day life of all people like: internet, jet engine, a car, bow and arrow, sth like that.

Inventions are good, but perfection are of great importance to society as well.

[Zaw-Gyi]

ipod

[MasterChuef]

East Asians have higher IQ than any other racial or ethnic group.

[MasterChuef]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8fKj9V_9EA

White people are just a bunch of criminals.

[Forummember]

Inventions are good, but perfection are of great importance to society as well.

That's true, but i think that it takes more creativity to invent something new then perfecting something.

[colazero101]

banned

This post has been edited by Gatts: Aug 29 2009, 08:15 AM

Reason for edit: wonda51

[BlueBlack]

Japan is unrivaled in all technology sectors for key inventions in 2006 and 2007 according to the latest trilateral patent analysis. This means that Japan has a very capable workforce for innovation; furthermore, it suggests that Japan has a group of elite intellectuals rivaling any other group. Japan's extraordinary creativity and capabilities for innovation is supported by this evidence, which is consistent with scholastic aptitudes and intelligence quotient of the Japanese students. Moreover, Japan's geographical situation incites the government to invest heavily in technology development in contrast to basic science for greater export revenues, although there is a gradual effort to detach from that investment strategy for the prospect of a spill-over effect. Contrarily to the U.S., Japan invests mainly in the private sector, which ties innovation activities to commercial interests; for instance, investment in robotics are made as it has a foreseeable market in the future. Despite, Japan's focus on technology development, it has produced a scientific elite that includes Nobel laureates. There is no physiological factor that was found to cause high creativity. We can speculate that a genetic predisposition to high intelligence predisposes also for high creativity.

So, what really came out of "creative Japan" lately?

[BlueBlack]

East Asians have higher IQ than any other racial or ethnic group.

I don't believe any country has higher IQ than others- maybe a few points.
However, some country do study harder than others for sure.
How much of this "studying harder" improves IQ? A few points.

I know many Asians envy Japan and Korea, but if you see how much they study and work, I'm not sure if you'll still envy them. Typical high school students study from 7AM to midnight. Typical workers work 8AM to 10PM easily. The society is so competitive that you won't believe it.
Btw, they don't even have natural resources.

There is a funny story. As you may know, Japanese is known as hard workers to many westerners, and Korean is only people who think Japanese is lazy. LOL.

Many Japanese and Koreans die by what's known as a "sudden death" due to stress. The suicide rate is very high, probably #1 or 2.
All their fortune come with a heavy price.
It's not IQ that made them rich.

Are other Asian countries ready for the same?

[kieshin]

So, what really came out of "creative Japan" lately?

and what's really came out of "creative USA" lately? oh no don't tell me you CREDITED all of thing came out of USA to whiteman?

[kakabonga]

counting patents is dumb, if you wanna see real innovation you should read science magazine's top 10 scientific breakthroughs.

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/12...ghs-of-2008.ars

[scarytroll]

scientific breakthroughs is biased toward richer countries without inherent geographical disadvantages.

[Jagger]

How many patents a country claims doesnt say everything about that country's creativity.

Just want to know: What are best inventions made by Japan?

I mean inventions that have (or had) a big influeance on every day life of all people like: internet, jet engine, a car, bow and arrow, sth like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_inventions