International Competition in Advanced Technology Decisions for America (1983) / Chapter Skim
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Introduction
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The leading industrial nations believe that their future economic growth depends on their abilities to create advanced technologies and to sell the resultant products and processes in a global market. Consequently, international trade in advanced technology is a high priority.
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advanced technology products in order to gain rapidly a substantial share of a foreign market, charges that foreign companies are capable of underbidding American manufacturers through major subsidization by their governments, and charges that governments use so-called side inducements to capture sales in third-country markets. These perceptions, whatever their validity, weaken the bonds among the industrialized allies and may threaten the economic and military strength of all countries of the alliance.
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As stated above, each country creates different policies and stratagems to enhance the global competitiveness of its advanced technology industries. Advanced technology sectors are important to the United States and other industrialized countries because their future economic growth depends in large part on the disssemination of advanced technology throughout their economies.
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economic welfare and military security; the importance of maintaining a strong national capacity for technological innovation, including a vigorous international trade position; and the domestic and international measures required for this effort. It describes the many variables affecting the nation's advanced technology enterprise, including U.S.
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Large parts of an apparently advanced technology industry may involve routine production of traditional products; on the other hand, seemingly n low-technology industries have components that are at the forefront of technical advance. · The classification of technologies as advanced ought to be, in principle, a dynamic one since it laraelv depends on how new the technology is.
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Jet Transport Manufacturing Industry, an ad hoc study project of the Civil Aviation Advisory Group, Aerospace Technical Council (Washington, D.C.: Aerospace Research Center, 1982)
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