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Conference on Japan's Growing Technological Capability: Implications for the U.S. Economy

October 23 and 24, 1991—Lecture Room

National Academy of Sciences—Washington, D.C.

National Research Council

Committee on Japan

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1991

Registration and Coffee

Opening Remarks by Chairman

C. FRED BERGSTEN, Institute for International Economics and Member, Committee on Japan

Technology Assessment in the U.S.-Japan Context

GEORGE GAMOTA, MITRE Institute

JIM MARTIN, Rockwell International

SHIGETAKA SEKI, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology

Open Discussion

Lunch

Impacts and Implications for the U.S. Technology Base

Macro Issues

DALE JORGENSON, Harvard University

MASARU YOSHITOMI, Economic Planning Agency of Japan

Open Discussion

Suggested Citation:"B. Conference on Japan." National Research Council. 1992. Japan's Growing Technological Capability: Implications for the U.S. Economy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2030.
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Micro Issues

WILLIAM FINAN, Law & Economics Consulting Group

DAVID TEECE, University of California, Berkeley

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Adjourn

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1991

Registration and Coffee

Future Scenarios: Japan, Technology and Competition in the 21st Century

JOHN CANTWELL, University of Reading

FUMIO KODAMA, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy

EDWARD GRAHAM, Institute for International Economics

Open Discussion

Policy Implications for the United States

RICHARD NELSON, Columbia University

Comments

ERICH BLOCH, Council on Competitiveness

HIROSHI OTA, Foreign Ministry of Japan

Open Discussion

Closing Remarks by Chairman

C. FRED BERGSTEN

Adjourn

Suggested Citation:"B. Conference on Japan." National Research Council. 1992. Japan's Growing Technological Capability: Implications for the U.S. Economy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2030.
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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.

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