Finally, societal diffusion should shift from technical evolution to institutional coevolution. These are difficult concepts. The rapid diffusion of CAT scanners into Japan was driven by the fact that Japan's government and their national health insurance program aggressively embraced the new technology to accelerate its acceptance. They did much the same with FAX machines. Both these Western-invented industries are now dominated by Japan.
Technology fusion is almost the reverse of Western breakthrough invention.
There are Western examples of this practice. Still, most Western firms are internally focused. The same basic products evolve by model year. Detroit's cars, even now, change little from year to year. Intel's microprocessors evolve very rapidly, but still in a pipeline.