Technology and innovation in Japan : policy and management for the twenty-first century

Abstract

The Japanese system of technology and innovation: preparing for the twenty-first century - Restructuring basic, applied and developmental research: changes in allocation of R&D resources - The interaction between technology and economy: has the ‘virtuous cycle’ of Japan’s technological innovation system collapsed ? - Higher education in Japan from the perspective of R&D - Internationalizing Japanese science -- Organizational innovation in Japanese basic research: from bureaucracy to dynamic network -- The Japanese business system for creation and diffusion of technological knowledge: time for change ? - Reorganization of R&D in Japanese manufacturing firms: preserving competitiveness for the twenty-first century - Collaborative research in Japan and the West: a case study of Britain’s response to MITI’s Fifth Generation Computer Initiative - R&D in Japan’s pharmaceutical industry: the biological revolution, gene therapy and public policy - R&D consortia in the 1990s: national competitiveness and international cooperation in the case of semiconductors - Japanese nanotechnology - Japanese R&D activities in advanced materials: the case of superconductivity research