U.S.-Japan Strategic Alliances in the Semiconductor Industry Technology Transfer, Competition, and Public Policy (1992) / Chapter Skim
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2 Background: Technology Transfer and Latecomer Catch-Up
2 Background: Technology Transfer and Latecomer Catch-Up
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Indeed, most analyses of Japan's fastpaced growth into economic superpower status give heavy weight to the 1Terutomo Ozawa, Japan's Technological Challenge to the West, 1950-1974: Motivation and Accomplishment (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974)
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Okimoto "The Japanese Challenge in High Technology," Ralph Landau and Nathan Rosenberg, eds., The Positive Sum Strategy: Harnessing Technology for Economic Growth (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1986~. contributions made by technological improvements.3 According to one prominent Japanese economist, technology (much of it imported)
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For Japanese companies, the immense benefits included crucial time saved, large uncertainties eliminated, promising R&D pathways clarified, rapid movement down technological and commercial learning curves, resources freed to focus on incremental adaptations, and new commercial opportunities opened up. Without the infusion of key foreign technology, Japanese industry probably would have advanced less rapidly and not as synergistically across so many fronts.4 At the same time, it must be noted that the most significant transfers of technology occurred many years ago.
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For product and process technology, the channels include reverse engineering of already manufactured products, industrial espionage, consulting services, hiring away of key researchers from competitor companies, and various forms of strategic alliances. For companies in industries such as semiconductor manufacturing equipment, the sale of a product inherently involves technology transfer to the customer.
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national interests, analysts disagree on how this might best be accomplished. This report seeks to highlight some of the problems and some of the opportunities associated with U.S.-Japan alliances for practitioners and policymakers who must consider how to make these rapidly expanding relationships demonstrate concrete benefits for the United States.
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