Bridging islands
Subtitle: venture companies and the future of Japanese and American industry
By: Robert Kneller.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780199268801
Subjects: Technology transfer -- Japan; Technology transfer -- United States; Small business investment companies -- Japan; Small business investment companies -- United States; Academic-industrial collaboration -- Japan; Academic-industrial collaboration -- United States
Description: 'Bridging Islands' examines the role of venture companies in national technical and economic success, contrasting the industrial and social organisation of the world's two largest economies, the US and Japan. Kneller argues that national policy on venture companies is of paramount importance to their economic growth.