Technology, Policy, and Economic Performance: Lessons from Japan

Alvey Programme areas Britain British capital cent chemical companies competition development activities diffusion economic performance education and training electrical equipment Europe example export Fordist Freeman Germany Gross Domestic Product groups growth imported technology improve increasing increasingly industrial policy industrial structure information technology international trade investment Japan Japanese economy Japanese firms Japanese national system Japanese system keiretsu Keynesian leading logy long-term major manufacturing mass-production measures ment MITI OECD organisational patents Pavitt points problems products and processes rapid recognised relative research and development Research Policy reverse engineering role scale science and technology scientific Second World Second World War sectors social innovations Soete Source statistics strategy studies success system of innovation Table technical change technical innovations techno techno-economic paradigm technological forecasting technology gap technology policy theory tion trade performance United Kingdom University of Sussex VLSI West Germany world markets world technology Yamauchi