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Technology and Industrial Development in Japan - Building Capabilities by Learning, Innovation and Public Policy (Paperback)
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Technology and Industrial Development in Japan - Building Capabilities by Learning, Innovation and Public Policy (Paperback)
Series: Japan Business and Economics Series
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Japan was the first major non-western nation to take on board the
Western technological and organizational advances of the century
after the fist industrial revolution. It subsequently proved fully
able to exploit and contribute to the broad, sustained
technological advances that began in the twentieth century, as
science became harnessed to technology. Japan's economic
development remains a model for many technologically less advanced
countries which have not yet mastered modern technology to
organizational forms; and a knowledge of Japanese technological and
economic history can contribute importantly to our understanding of
economic growth in the modern era. This book studies the industrial
development of Japan since the mid-nineteenth century, with
particular emphasis on how the various industries built
technological capabilities. The Japanese were extraordinarily
creative in searching out and learning to use modern technologies,
and the authors investigate the emergence of entrepreneurs who
began new and risky businesses, how the business organizations
evolved to cope with changing technological conditions, and how the
managers, engineers and workers acquired organizational and
technological skills through technology importation,
learning-by-doing, and their own R&D activities. The book
investigates the interaction between private entrepreneural
activities and public policy, through a general examination of
economic and industrial development, a study of the evolution of
management systems, and six industrial case studies: textiles, iron
and steel, electrical and communications equipment, automobiles,
shipbuilding and aircraft, and pharmaceuticals. The authors show
how the Japanese government has played an important supportive role
in the continuing innovation, without being a substitute for
aggressive business enterprise constantly venturing into unfamiliar
terrains.
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