The inducing power of Japanese technological innovation

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The inducing power of Japanese technological innovation

Chihiro Watanabe, Irawan Santoso, and Tjahya Widayanti

Pinter Publishers, 1991

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [132]-138) and index

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The Japanese economy has achieved remarkable growth since the end of World War II, outpacing that of other advanced industrial nations. The most significant contribution to this growth has been the level of investment in technology. In contrast to other advanced economies, this investment has been funded primarily by private industry; the level of R & D investment by the Japanese government is the lowest among the advanced countries. There has been increasing interest in how the Japanese Government, especially MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry) is able to stimulate industrial research and development effectively by such limited financial means. This book tries to provide an answer to this question by analysing the inducing power of Japanese technological innovation.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Background and hypothesis: energy crisis and Japanese technological innovation
  • post energy crisis and stagnation of technological innovation
  • effectiveness of Japanese R&D system. Part 2 Japan's internal structure
  • Japan's R&D structure
  • Japan's technological knowledge stock. Part 3 Mechanism in inducing R&D activities - Japan's path: trends in the substitution of production factors to technology
  • mechanism of technological innovation
  • mechanism in inducing vigorous R&D investment. Part 4 Inducing power: changing pattern of technological development structure in five countries
  • structural characteristics of Japanese technological development with special relation to the energy crisis
  • indication of the new change of technological development structure under oil glut circumstances
  • structural change of technological innovation towards the sophisticated use of information. Part 5 Inducing policy: MITI's R&D policy system
  • mechanism conducive to technological development
  • the efficiency of Japan's R&D system
  • MITI's role at a turning point. Part 6 Concluding implications.

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