DOWA IP Creation Co. Ltd. Internationalization Strategy: A Case Study

This case study provides an overview of the internationalization strategy of DOWA IP Creation Co. Ltd., a Japan-based company specializing in iron powder and steel casting. Founded in 1965 and owned by DOWA Holdings, the company experienced rapid growth, achieving significant sales and income by 2010. The analysis covers the implications of industry and country environments on the company's innovation strategy, highlighting the importance of R&D activities and external factors. The study also touches upon the company's stakeholders and its approach to leveraging research from French universities with resources from Japanese firms to implement effective strategies with minimal capital input, focusing on research-oriented businesses.

Overview of the internationalization strategy of the
DOWA IP Creation CO. Ltd.
DOWA IP creation Co., Ltd is a Japan based company whose headquarters are at
Okayama city. The company basically operates in the manufacturing of iron
powder, steel casting including alloy, bushings, and rolling mills. It is leading
producer in the material sector and it works as a Iron and steel industry. The
company is owned by DOWA holdings which is a Japanese nonferrous metals
manufacturer.
The company was founded by Densaburo Fujita in 1965. Densaburo Fujita also
established DOWA electronics in 1869. DOWA electronics is a major shareholder
for DOWA IP creation. The company was established on 15 November 1965 and
has a name DOWA IRON POWDER INDUSTTY CO, LTD. The name was later changed
in 2006. In just 2 years of its establishment, the company’s capital increased to 200
million yen. It was a fast-growing industry in material sector then. After only 3
years, In 1970 It’s capital increased to 300 million yen and it became one of the
largest growing industry in chemical sector. In 1985 It established its own affiliated
company named NC Co., Ltd.
The organization includes approximately 30 percent of the project for
manufacturing copier carriers, and about 19 percent for iron powder for the
material which are molten, about 16 percent for iron powder for use in powder
metallurgy, and about 16 percent for iron powder for chiropractic.
The company was growing with a full pace as its parent company. Its recent data
conclude that it has sales of over 3,954 million yen in 2010 fiscal year. It is a very
huge amount in terms of a company which operated under a parent company. The
growth of this company never stops and kept on increasing and currently it is one
of the largest industries in chemical and material sector. The company’s total
income at the end of 2010 fiscal year was around 414 million, and till 2010 around
125 employs were working in this company. The company got its substantial growth
in only 2 years of its establishment. Major stakeholders for this company also
include Kobe Steel, Nittetsu Sumikin welding industry. The company have 3 major
stakeholders which are also leading companies in this industry. Representative

director of this company is Tatsuro Miyazaki who is also the senior managing officer
for this company. Its parent Company has acquired many small and big industry to
make its DOWA holdings one of the largest companies in the chemical and material
industry.
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Implication of Industry and country environments on the
innovation strategy
Many low and medium included regard thing creators have lost their
high grounds in the business segments starting late. A part of the reasons
behind firms' failure for losing their advantage is globalization, access to
ratty workforces and snappy dissipating of skill through the Internet and
IT Technologies. It has been seen that money-related improvement and
headway in the made and making countries are generally managed by
improvement level rather than efficiencies of the associations as
progression enables associations to convey high included regard things.
As such, improvements and ability to propel end up basic for firms in
order to help their high ground. Improvement strategy of an association
isn't simply constrained by the association's workforce, capital and
mechanical limit yet likewise by how characteristic factors force R&D
activities and headway level. Firms working in a comparative division
have particular progression levels. Along these lines, the effect of
characteristic factors on progression level and different improvement
frameworks also ended up being basic for proceeding with high ground
of the associations.

In continuous examinations, improvement limits of associations have
been bankrupt down generally through inorganization factors or through
customer and supplier relations of associations. Regardless, the effects
of external regular factors on progressive improvement limit have not
been through and through separated. The properties of suppliers and
customers are the most fundamental factors impacting improvement
measurement of an association. The arrangement of customer demands
leads associations to serve in a continuously forceful condition and this
power firms to twist up progressively innovative. The high amounts of
forceful suppliers engage associations to take in new considerations
from them, along these lines enable the probability of reviving
advancement slants in the association.
"From the system gave the primary methodology was the examination
work will be from the French colleges and the assets will be driven from
the Japan or Japanese firms. The primary moto of this plan was to
actualize the best strategical yields from the fewer capital data sources.
Additionally, the need is given to the exploration businesses as opposed
to the materials ones."