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Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies : Lessons from the Japanese Experience

Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies : Lessons from the Japanese Experience - Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy

1st Edition 1995

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 nonspecialist. The book concludes with a summary of useful lessons, variously applicable to countries at all the different stages of industrialization.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781349237777
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition 1995
Language: English
Number of pages: 346
Weight: 468g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 21mm