Japanese R D: An organizational analysis

Thesis/Dissertation · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:7169151

Nedeljkovich, M

Japan has been frequently criticized for its underinvestment in support of basic scientific research and accused of taking a free ride on Western technology. In the global industrial structures of the 1990s, access to basic research in microelectronics, computers, telecommunications, automation, biotechnology, aerospace, engineering, new materials and new forms of energy has become a key to global competitiveness. given its technological success among the world's advanced economies, Japan's investment share in the basic scientific research from which new knowledge grows continues to be the lowest among the industrialized nations. To examine this issue, this study seeks to identify the important organizational actors on the Japanese R D scene to take a look at Japan's basic approach to R D budgeting, to consider the strategies Japan has used so successfully in gaining access to precommercial R D in new technologies, and to note the ways these strategies are changing. In brief, the study provides a clearer picture of how one nation, Japan, has organized itself to gain market share through well thought out industrial policies which depend on basic research developed by others, in aggressively going out to capture that knowledge at the earliest possible time and quickly turning that knowledge into profitable products.

• Research Organization: Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States)
• OSTI ID: 7169151
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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