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

National Research Council

doi:10.17226/2030

Japan's Growing Technological Capability: Implications for the U.S. Economy (1992)

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Japan's Growing Technological Capability

Implications for the U.S. Economy (1992)

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National Research Council; Policy and Global Affairs; Office of International Affairs; Committee on Japan; Thomas S. Arrison, C. Fred Bergsten, Edward M. Graham, and Martha Caldwell Harris, Editors

Description

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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National Research Council. 1992. Japan's Growing Technological Capability: Implications for the U.S. Economy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/2030.

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244 pages | 6 x 9
Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-309-04780-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/2030

Contents

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

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