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Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies

Lessons from the Japanese Experience

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Ryōshin Minami

    1. Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

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  2. Kwan S. Kim

    1. Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA

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  3. Fumio Makino

    1. Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, Japan

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  4. Joung-hae Seo

    1. Institute of Business Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

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Part of the book series: Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy (SMJE)

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Economic progress requires technological development, which in turn depends on a country's social capacity to acquire, assimilate, and develop new technologies. Focusing on the evolution of Japan's economy from the Meiji Restoration to the present day, this volume provides an authoritative account, firmly grounded in theoretical and empirical analysis, of the country's attempts to generate the necessary social capacity for technological innovation and absorption. Successive chapters address the specific experiences of a number of key Japanese industries during this process. Each industrial case study is written by an acknowledged expert in the field and presents material of significant interest to specialists in economic development in a form that is also accessible to the nonspecialist. The book concludes with a summary of useful lessons, variously applicable to countries at all the different stages of industrialization.

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Japanese Experience in Technology: A Survey

    1. Japanese Experience in Technology: A Survey

      • Ryōshin Minami, Kwan S. Kim, Fumio Makino, Joung-hae Seo
      Pages 1-28

  4. Research and Development, Innovation and Industrial Organization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. The Dynamics of Innovation and Learning-by-Doing: The Case of the Integrated Circuit Industry

      • Akimitsu Sakuma
      Pages 165-190

    3. Organizational Innovation and the Development of the Sewing-Machine Industry

      • Susumu Hondai
      Pages 191-213

    4. Technological Innovation in the Steel Industry: Recognizing Potential in Innovations

      • Seiichirō Yonekura
      Pages 214-248

    5. An International Comparison of Productivity and Product Development Performance in the Automobile Industry

      • Takahiro Fujimoto, Akira Takeishi
      Pages 249-280

    6. Research and Development Competition and Innovation in the Video Cassette Recorder Industry

      • Joung-hae Seo
      Pages 281-304

    7. Japanese Technology and Industrial Development in Thailand: The Experience of the Synthetic Fibre Industry

      • Tran Van Tho
      Pages 305-330

    8. Concluding Reflections: Lessons from the Japanese Experience

      • Ryōshin Minami, Kwan-S. Kim, Fumio Makino, Joung-hae Seo
      Pages 331-338

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 339-346
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

    Ryōshin Minami

  • Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA

    Kwan S. Kim

  • Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Fumio Makino

  • Institute of Business Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

    Joung-hae Seo

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