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Author Staff, National Research Council

Title Japan's Growing Technological Capability : Implications for the U.S. Economy
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1900

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Description 1 online resource (244 pages)
Contents ""Japan's Growing Technological Capability""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Japan's Growing Technological Capability and Implications for the U.S. Economy: an Overview""; ""CONTEXT""; ""ASSESSMENTS OF U.S. AND JAPANESE TECHNOLOGICAL STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES""; ""ECONOMIC IMPACTS AND IMPLICATIONS""; ""FUTURE OF COMPETITION""; ""POLICY IMPLICATIONS""; ""I ASSESSMENTS OF U.S. AND JAPANESE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES""; ""Technology Assessment in the U.S.-Japan Context""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""JAPANESE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES""; ""METHODOLOGY OF ASSESSMENTS""; ""LESSONS LEARNED""
""JOINT VENTURES""""LICENSING-JAPANESE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TO THE UNITED STATES""; ""What Can We Learn from Technology Assessment?""; ""EXPECTATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT?""; ""ILLUSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT""; ""TECHNICAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT""; ""Assessment of Product Performance""; ""Assessment of Production Processes""; ""Research and Development Potential""; ""Infrastructure""; ""Problems Associated with Methodology""; ""OUTLINE OF THE TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT PROJECT CONDUCTED BY MITI FOR THE WHITE PAPER ON INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY (1988)""
""OBJECTIVES OF THE ONGOING SURVEY FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE NEXT WHITE PAPER ON INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY""""POLICY IMPLICATIONS""; ""Accessing Japanese Technology: Experiences of a U.S.-Based Company""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""OVERALL CHARACTERIZATION OF JAPANESE TECHNOLOGY""; ""LOCATION AND EVALUATION""; ""GETTING ACCESS""; ""CONCERNS""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Studies of Japanese Technology: An Effort with Diminishing Returns?""; ""THE DECLINE OF U.S. HIGH TECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURING""; ""THE RISE OF STUDIES OF JAPANESE TECHNOLOGY""; ""SOME TECHNOLOGICAL HISTORY""
""A VIEW OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT""""THE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ARGUMENT""; ""THE COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION PROCESSING ARGUMENTS""; ""THE ROLE OF RESEARCH AND THE ROLE OF INCREMENTALISM""; ""SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION""; ""II ECONOMIC IMPACTS AND IMPLICATIONS""; ""Technology, Productivity and the Competitiveness of U.S. and Japanese Industries""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PURCHASING POWER PARITIES""; ""RELATIVE PRODUCTIVITY LEVELS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Macroeconomic and Schumpetarian Features of Japanese Innovations in the 1980s""; ""TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY, R & D AND INNOVATIONS""
""SCHUMPETARIAN FEATURES OF JAPAN'S INNOVATIONS""""The Changing Place of Japan in the Global Scientific and Technological Enterprise""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""JAPAN'S CHANGING TECHNOLOGICAL POSITION, 1960-1990""; ""U.S. FIRMS' GROWING LINKS WITH THE JAPANESE R & D SYSTEM""; ""Foreign Patenting and R & D Activity in Japan""; ""Japanese R & D Activity in the United States""; """"Strategic Alliances"" Between Japanese and Foreign Firms""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Implications of Japan's ""Soft Crisis"": Forcing New Directions for Japanese Electronics Companies""; ""INTRODUCTION""
Notes ""Problems confronting the japanese software engineering industry""
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Subject Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Japan
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- United States
High technology industries -- Japan
High technology industries -- United States
Competition -- Japan
Competition -- United States
Competition
High technology industries
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
Japan
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Arrison, Thomas S
Bergstein, C. Fred
ISBN 9780309584814
0309584817