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The Competitive Status of the U.S. Civil Aviation Manufacturing Industry A Study of the Influences of Technology in Determining International Industrial Competitive Advantage (1985) / Chapter Skim
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... The growing trend toward internationalization of aircraft manufacture, with its inevitable sharing of technology with foreign partners, lends even greater urgency to the need to insure the vitality of our basic research and technology development effort. Although some information is undoubtedly transferred in international joint ventures for manufacture, the technical knowledge underlying the embodiment need not be.
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  • civil aircraft
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  • technological leadership
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