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Front Matter	i-viii
Overview	1-18	(skim)
I. Assessments of U.S. and Japanese Technological Strengths and Weaknesses	19-20	(skim)
Technology Assessment in the U.S.-Japan Context	21-41	(skim)
What Can We Learn from Technology Assessment?	42-56	(skim)
Accessing Japanese Technology: Experiences of a U.S.-Based Company	57-65	(skim)
Studies of Japanese Technology: An Effort with Diminishing Returns?	66-80	(skim)
II. Economic Impacts and Implications	81-82	(skim)
Technology, Productivity, and the Competitiveness of U.S. and Japanese Industries	83-97	(skim)
Macroeconomic and Schumpetarian Features of Japanese Innovations in the 1980	98-105	(skim)
The Changing Place of Japan in the Global Scientific and Technological Enterprise	106-135	(skim)
Implications of Japan	136-144	(skim)
III. The Future of Competition	145-146	(skim)
Japan	147-164	(skim)
Japan	165-188	(skim)
Japanese Control of R&D Activities in the United States: Is this a Cause for Concern?	189-206	(skim)
IV. Policy Implications	207-208	(skim)
Policy Implications of Japan	209-215	(skim)
Policy Implications for the United States: Comments	216-220	(skim)
Comments on Policy Implications	221-226	(skim)
Appendixes	227-228	(skim)
A. Contributing Authors	229-233	(skim)
B. Conference on Japan	234-236	(skim)

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The perspectives of technologists, economists, and policymakers are brought together in this volume. It includes chapters dealing with approaches to assessment of technology leadership in the United States and Japan, an evaluation of future impacts of eroding U.S. technological preeminence, an analysis of the changing nature of technology-based global competition, and a discussion of policy options for the United States.

Japan's Growing Technological Capability:

Implications for the U.S. Economy

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