Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Japan's Growing Technological Capability""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Japan's Growing Technological Capability and Implications for the U.S. Economy: an Overview""; ""CONTEXT""; ""ASSESSMENTS OF U.S. AND JAPANESE TECHNOLOGICAL STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES""; ""ECONOMIC IMPACTS AND IMPLICATIONS""; ""FUTURE OF COMPETITION""; ""POLICY IMPLICATIONS""; ""I ASSESSMENTS OF U.S. AND JAPANESE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES""; ""Technology Assessment in the U.S.-Japan Context""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""JAPANESE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES""; ""METHODOLOGY OF ASSESSMENTS""; ""LESSONS LEARNED""
  • ""JOINT VENTURES""""LICENSING-JAPANESE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TO THE UNITED STATES""; ""What Can We Learn from Technology Assessment?""; ""EXPECTATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT?""; ""ILLUSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT""; ""TECHNICAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT""; ""Assessment of Product Performance""; ""Assessment of Production Processes""; ""Research and Development Potential""; ""Infrastructure""; ""Problems Associated with Methodology""; ""OUTLINE OF THE TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT PROJECT CONDUCTED BY MITI FOR THE WHITE PAPER ON INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY (1988)""
  • ""OBJECTIVES OF THE ONGOING SURVEY FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE NEXT WHITE PAPER ON INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY""""POLICY IMPLICATIONS""; ""Accessing Japanese Technology: Experiences of a U.S.-Based Company""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""OVERALL CHARACTERIZATION OF JAPANESE TECHNOLOGY""; ""LOCATION AND EVALUATION""; ""GETTING ACCESS""; ""CONCERNS""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Studies of Japanese Technology: An Effort with Diminishing Returns?""; ""THE DECLINE OF U.S. HIGH TECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURING""; ""THE RISE OF STUDIES OF JAPANESE TECHNOLOGY""; ""SOME TECHNOLOGICAL HISTORY""
  • ""A VIEW OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT""""THE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ARGUMENT""; ""THE COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION PROCESSING ARGUMENTS""; ""THE ROLE OF RESEARCH AND THE ROLE OF INCREMENTALISM""; ""SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION""; ""II ECONOMIC IMPACTS AND IMPLICATIONS""; ""Technology, Productivity and the Competitiveness of U.S. and Japanese Industries""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PURCHASING POWER PARITIES""; ""RELATIVE PRODUCTIVITY LEVELS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Macroeconomic and Schumpetarian Features of Japanese Innovations in the 1980s""; ""TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY, R & D AND INNOVATIONS""
  • ""SCHUMPETARIAN FEATURES OF JAPAN'S INNOVATIONS""""The Changing Place of Japan in the Global Scientific and Technological Enterprise""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""JAPAN'S CHANGING TECHNOLOGICAL POSITION, 1960-1990""; ""U.S. FIRMS' GROWING LINKS WITH THE JAPANESE R & D SYSTEM""; ""Foreign Patenting and R & D Activity in Japan""; ""Japanese R & D Activity in the United States""; """"Strategic Alliances"" Between Japanese and Foreign Firms""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Implications of Japan's ""Soft Crisis"": Forcing New Directions for Japanese Electronics Companies""; ""INTRODUCTION""