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Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies: Lessons from the Japanese Experience

By Ryōshin Minami , Kwan S. Kim , Fumio Makino , Joung-hae Seo (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1995
ISBN
978-1-349-23777-7, 978-1-349-23775-3, 978-0-312-12241-6
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-23775-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (33374196 bytes)
Series
Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy
Edition
1
Pages
XVIII, 346\362
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Industrial Organization; Macroeconomics/Monetary E

Description

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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