Japan's Growing Technological Capability Implications for the U.S. Economy (1992) / Chapter Skim
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Accessing Japanese Technology: Experiences of a U.S.-Based Company
Accessing Japanese Technology: Experiences of a U.S.-Based Company
Pages 57-65
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Most of the paper is based on my personal experience in Japan, from 1986 to 1991, directing an office to support technology assessment and access for Rockwell's divisions in Japan and in the United States. This office has a broad technology charter, assisting nearly all of Rockwell's businesses: electronics, aerospace, automotive components, factory automation, and printing presses.
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A good example is Nippon LSI Card, which we discovered in a JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization) tour of the United States in 1987: they make non-contact semiconductor memory, which we designed into our truck electronics product line.
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The defense and aerospace sectors in Japan spend far less than the United States on R&D, relying for the most part on spin off from their commercial businesses. However, in certain technical areas, they have developed technology of genuine interest or have put laboratories in place that will help them gain significant markets in the future.
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Recently, it has become possible to get access to these and other Japanese technology data bases here in the United States through commercial gateways such as DIALOG.
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In many of these areas, Japanese scientific development lags the United States, but commercialization is significantly more advanced. It is common to find situations where U.S.
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As a final note, a real R&D laboratory in Japan is vastly superior to a liaison office for locating, evaluating, and accessing technology. Japanese researchers and engineers maintain friendships with colleagues from their educational years, they have intimate knowledge of the infrastructure in their technical area, they can communicate effectively with potential or established partners, and they are loyal employees.
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high technology can be expected to grow steadily. Despite the resulting increased technical strength in Japan, the technology flow between the United States and Japan continues to be very unbalanced, partly because of the great inequity between the two countries in easily available technical resources, and partly because Japanese companies are better (for financial and management reasons)
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RECOMMENDATIONS The current situation in the United States is comprehensively described in Made in America, a book published by the MIT Press in 1989, by Michael Dertouzos, Richard Lester, and Robert Solow. They set forth five fundamental imperatives for the United States, which are well thought out and which are being studied by companies all over America.
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The future economic strength of both countries is dependent upon developing methods of cooperation that improve industrial productivity and competitiveness in each country while making it possible to work together effectively. This discipline will not be easy, and the rewards will not appear in the short telul, but by committing to making the needed changes, America will be able to remain technically competitive in the future, and Japanese industry will become a more welcome participant in the global economy.
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