Acquisition, Adaptation and the Development of Technologies
Subtitle: Japan's Experience and its Lessons (Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy)
Contributors: Ryoshin Miniami (Editor); Kwan S. Kim (Editor); Fumio Makimo (Editor); Joung-Hae Seo (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 15, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780312122416
Subjects: Development - Economic Development; Technology / Industrial Technology; Technology And Industrial Growth; Business / Economics / Finance; Economic aspects; History; Japan; Research, Industrial; Technological Innovations; Business/Economics
Description: 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.