Managing technology: learning from Japan
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Japan Society for Science Policy Research Management held a symposium on technology management in Japan in Boston, Massachusetts, US in Feb 1993. It revealed that Japanese economic growth is due to increased expenditure on research and development and better educated employees. Japanese technical and management strategies are risk-proof compared to the US. The main problem facing Japanese companies is the shortage of management executives and for US companies the shortage of top engineers.
Publication Name: Research-Technology Management
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0895-6308
Year: 1993
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Financing U.S. technology
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The factors behind the seeming unwillingness of US companies to invest in technology, compared to their foreign competitors, are explored in three Financing Technology roundtables jointly sponsored by the Commerce and Treasury Departments in 1991. Some possible corrective measures regarding the inadequate financing of US technologies are prescribed. These include broad fundamental changes in the capital acquisition methods of companies, reduction of financial waste, coordination of public policy and the review of public information requirements.
Publication Name: Research-Technology Management
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0895-6308
Year: 1993
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Why the United States must do more process R&D
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US firms are urged to do more process research and development. The US has been found to be at a greater competitive disadvantage in industries where technological change is progressing rapidly. A 1991 study revealed that US industry has placed greater emphasis on product innovation, in contrast with Japanese firms which were found to be actively engaged in improving the technology of their own manufacturing processes.
Publication Name: Research-Technology Management
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0895-6308
Year: 1992
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