Japan's Growing Technological Capability

Thomas S. Arrison, C. Fred Bergsten, Edward M. Graham, and Martha Caldwell Harris, Editors; Committee on Japan, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Overview; 3 I. Assessments of U.S. and Japanese Technological Strengths and Weaknesses; 4 Technology Assessment in the U.S.-Japan Context; 5 What Can We Learn from Technology Assessment?; 6 Accessing Japanese Technology: Experiences of a U.S.-Based Company; 7 Studies of Japanese Technology: An Effort with Diminishing Returns?; 8 II. Economic Impacts and Implications; 9 Technology, Productivity, and the Competitiveness of U.S. and Japanese Industries; 10 Macroeconomic and Schumpetarian Features of Japanese Innovations in the 1980; 11 The Changing Place of Japan in the Global Scientific and Technological Enterprise; 12 Implications of Japan; 13 III. The Future of Competition; 14 Japan; 15 Japan; 16 Japanese Control of R&D Activities in the United States: Is this a Cause for Concern?; 17 IV. Policy Implications; 18 Policy Implications of Japan; 19 Policy Implications for the United States: Comments; 20 Comments on Policy Implications; 21 Appendixes; 22 A. Contributing Authors; 23 B. Conference on Japan