The establishment and development of the innovation-promoting company

A great deal of recent research focuses on the function of innovation-promoting organizations among regional communities or companies. This research discusses strategic organizations for cluster development of successful innovation as a system for activating those regional communities and medium- and small-sized businesses suffering from depression [1]. It also concerns itself with specialty companies supporting open innovation, working as an agent for technical transfer and patent strategy [2]. Other research discusses “innomediaries” as innovation-promoting organizations [3]. These cases show that the general function and role of innovation-promoting organizations is to achieve innovation. On the other hand, there is little research into the function, role and characteristics of such innovation-promoting agents both outside and inside organizations. This paper looks at innovation-promoting systems constructed by companies and investigates these systems as strategic organizations. The first step in this analysis is comparing how they were founded, their organizational characteristics, activities, and results. Next, we investigate the functions of innovation-promoting from the point of view of two types of systems, "outside-in" and "inside-out", which are typical concepts of open innovation that have been researched as new innovation models recently. Finally, we consider the characteristics of innovation-promoting organizations and new product development, dividing product development into 4 processes. We make it clear that the permanent innovation-promoting system by looking the tendencies of the characteristics, functions, and activity for their product developments.