Technology and Innovation in Japan: Policy and Management for the Twenty-First Century

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Figures x
• Tables xii
• Foreword xv
• Acknowledgements xvii
• Part I - Introduction 1
• 1 - The Japanese System of Technology and Innovation 3
• References 17
• Part II - Institutional Structure and Technology Policy 21
• 2 - Restructuring Basic, Applied and Developmental Research 23
• References 36
• 3 - The Interaction Between Technology and Economy 37
• Part III - Organization, Management and Business-Government Relations 59
• 4 - Higher Education in Japan from the Perspective of R&d 61
• 5 - Internationalizing Japanese Science 70

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Figures x
• Tables xii
• Foreword xv
• Acknowledgements xvii
• Part I - Introduction 1
• 1 - The Japanese System of Technology and Innovation 3
• References 17
• Part II - Institutional Structure and Technology Policy 21
• 2 - Restructuring Basic, Applied and Developmental Research 23
• References 36
• 3 - The Interaction Between Technology and Economy 37
• Part III - Organization, Management and Business-Government Relations 59
• 4 - Higher Education in Japan from the Perspective of R&d 61
• 5 - Internationalizing Japanese Science 70
• References 85
• 6 - Organizational Innovation in Japanese Basic Research 87
• 7 - The Japanese Business System for Creation and Diffusion of Technological Knowledge 115
• 8 - Reorganization of R&d in Japanese Manufacturing Firms 129
• 9 - Collaborative Research in Japan and the West 151
• Part IV - Major Fields of Science and Technology 171
• 10 - R&d in Japan’s Pharmaceutical Industry 173
• 11 - R&d Consortia in the 1990s 194
• 12 - Japanese Nanotechnology 214
• Notes 228
• 13 - Japanese R&d Activities in Advanced Materials 230
• Index 248