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U.S.-Japan Strategic Alliances in the Semiconductor Industry Technology Transfer, Competition, and Public Policy (1992) / Chapter Skim
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3 Strategic Alliances and Technology Transfer
Pages 9-14

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... A wide range of linkages that involve technology transfer still remains. Dataquest has broken American-Japanese semiconductor alliances down into 12 types.
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... GENERAL-PURPOSE TIE-UPS 15. Standards coordination: an agreement on common or compatible technical standards linking devices and systems and users of different machines.
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... It would, of course, be useful if the various types of alliances could be correlated with the commercial importance of the technology transferred but unfortunately no discernible pattern of correlation emerges from the data. Thus, we must be content with an operational definition of strategic alliances based on the construction of a typology that highlights the nature (iterative or non-iterative)
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... ; and very little else. One explanation for the paucity of alliances relates to the legal limits placed on foreign direct investments in Japan, the strict regulatory controls imposed over foreign exchange, and the requirement that Japanese corporations secure formal MITI approval for licensing and alliance formation.9 Most of these legal and regulatory constraints were not fully removed until around 1980.
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... The number of publicly announced alliances may be only the tip of the iceberg, because many alliances are not publicly announced and do not enter the realm of public knowledge. For a variety of reasons, such as fears of sending the wrong signals to investors or of setting off strong competitive counterstrategies on the part of rival firms, American and Japanese companies often choose to keep their alliances quiet.
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... Joint ventures, marketing, sales, distribution, servicing, and standards coordination relatively recent alliance types—can be traced to the dramatic growth of the Japanese market and the commercial imperative for U.S. companies to get involved.
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