ABSTRACT
This book demonstrates that long-awaited changes to technology policy and corporate strategy are now taking place in Japan. The study also questions whether it is the programme of reform or the will and ability to implement these reforms which is new. Contributors explore the repositioning of the Japanese science and technology system on three leve
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I INTRODUCTION
chapter 1|18 pages
THE JAPANESE SYSTEM OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
Preparing for the twenty-first century
part |2 pages
Part II INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
chapter 2|14 pages
RESTRUCTURING BASIC, APPLIED AND DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH
Changes in allocation of R&D resources
chapter 3|22 pages
THE INTERACTION BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMY
Has the ‘virtuous cycle’ of Japan’s technological innovation system collapsed?
part |2 pages
Part III ORGANIZATION, MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS–GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
chapter 6|28 pages
ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION IN JAPANESE BASIC RESEARCH
From bureaucracy to dynamic network
chapter 7|14 pages
THE JAPANESE BUSINESS SYSTEM FOR CREATION AND DIFFUSION OF TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
Time for change?
chapter 8|22 pages
REORGANIZATION OF R&D IN JAPANESE MANUFACTURING FIRMS
Preserving competitiveness for the twenty-first century
chapter 9|20 pages
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN JAPAN AND THE WEST
A case study of Britain’s response to MITI’s Fifth Generation Computer Initiative
part |2 pages
Part IV MAJOR FIELDS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
chapter 10|21 pages
R&D IN JAPAN’S PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
The biological revolution, gene therapy and public policy
chapter 11|20 pages
R&D CONSORTIA IN THE 1990s
National competitiveness and international cooperation in the case of semiconductors
chapter 13|18 pages
JAPANESE R&D ACTIVITIES IN ADVANCED MATERIALS
The case of superconductivity research
