Acquiring, adapting, and developing technologies : lessons from the Japanese experience / edited by Ryōshin Minami ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Minami, Ryōshin, 1933-

Series:

Studies in modern Japanese economy.

Studies in modern Japanese economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Economic aspects--Japan--History.

Technological innovations.

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Research, Industrial.

History.

Japan.

Research, Industrial--Japan--History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1995.

Summary:

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 non-specialist. The book concludes with a summary of useful lessons, variously applicable to countries at all the different stages of industrialization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312122411

OCLC:

30547841