Technology and Industrial Development in Japan
Building Capabilities by Learning, Innovation and Public Policy
ISBN13: 9780198288022ISBN10: 0198288026
Hardback,
328 pages
Oct 1996,
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Description
This study of Japan's industrial development focuses on the role of entrepreneurship first in adopting more advanced Western technology and then in innovating new technologies and developing human resources according to its changing organizational needs. Unlike previous studies, it covers the whole of the period since the Meiji restoration.Reviews
"...skillfully woven into a clear, well-nuanced, and balanced analysis of how Japanese firms acquired technology and accumulated technological capacities."--Journal of Japanese Studies
Product Details
328 pages; frontispiece, 9 tables, 3 line illus.; ISBN13: 978-0-19-828802-2ISBN10: 0-19-828802-6About the Author(s)
Hiroyuki Odagiri, Professor, Institute of Socio-Economic Planning, University of Tsukuba, Japan, and Akira Goto, Professor, Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
