Technological competition and interdependence
Subtitle: the search for policy in the United States, West Germany, and Japan
By: edited by Günter Heiduk and Kōzō Yamamura.
Contributors: Heiduk, Günter.; Yamamura, Kōzō.; Committee on Japanese Economic Studies (U.S.); Forschungsinstitut für Wirtschaftlich-Technische Entwicklungen in Japan und im Pazifikraum e.V.
Publisher: University of Washington Press; University of Tokyo Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Seattle; [Tokyo]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Technology and state -- United States.; Technology and state -- Germany (West); Technology and state -- Japan.; Competition, International.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rev. papers originally presented at a symposium held in Duisburg, West Germany in Aug. 1987 which was sponsored by the Committee on Japanese Economic Studies of the United States and the Forschungsinstitut für Wirtschaftlich-Technische Entwicklungen in Japan und im Pazifikraum e.V. of Duisburg University.
Table of contents: value: What has happened to U.S. technological leadership? / Richard R. Nelson; value: Japan's technological capabilities and its future / Sully Taylor and Kōzō Yamamura; value: West German technology in the 1980s / Ernst-Jürgen Horn; value: The impact of industrial structure and industrial policy on international trade / Motoshige Itoh; value: The agenda of the leading nations for the world economy / Peter F. Cowhey; value: Effectiveness in technological innovation / Iwao Nakatani; value: The German competitive position in trade of technology-intensive products / Harald Legler; value: The challenge to U.S. leadership in high technology industries / Rachel McCulloch; value: Geography is not destiny / George C. Eads; value: The benefits and burdens of the technological leaders / Merton J. Peck.