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    Technology and Industrial Development in Japan by Odagiri, Hiroyuki; Goto, Akira;

    Building Capabilities by Learning, Innovation and Public Policy

    Series: Japan Business and Economics Series;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 26 September 1996

    • ISBN 9780198288022
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages324 pages
    • Size 224x144x22 mm
    • Weight 510 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations frontispiece, line figures, tables
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    Short description:

    This monograph 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 in English, it covers the whole of the period since the Meiji restoration, refusing to divide up the credit for Japanese growth between technological improvements and investments in human and physical capital. The book investigates the interaction between private entrepreneurial activities and public policy, through a general examination of economic and industrial development, a study of the evolution of management systems, and six industrial case studies.

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    Japan was the first major non-western nation to take on board the Western technological and organizational advances of the century after the fist industrial revolution. It subsequently proved fully able to exploit and contribute to the broad, sustained technological advances that began in the twentieth century, as science became harnessed to technology. Japan's economic development remains a model for many technologically less advanced countries which have not yet mastered modern technology to organizational forms; and a knowledge of Japanese technological and economic history can contribute importantly to our understanding of economic growth in the modern era.

    This book studies the industrial development of Japan since the mid-nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on how the various industries built technological capabilities. The Japanese were extraordinarily creative in seraching out and learning to use modern technologies, and the authors investigate the emergence of entrepreneurs who began new and risky businesses, how the business organizations evolved to cope with changing technological conditions, and how the managers, engineers and workers acquired organizational and technological skills through technology importation, learning-by-doing, and their own R&D activities.

    The book investigates the interaction between private entrepreneural activities and public policy, through a general examination of economic and industrial development, a study of the evolution of management systems, and six industrial case studies: textiles, iron and steel, electrical and communications equipment, automobiles, shipbuilding and aircraft, and pharmaceuticals. the authors show how the Japanese government has played an important supportive role in the continuing innovation, without being a substitute for aggressive business enterprise constantly venturing into unfamiliar terrains.

    A comprehensive history of technology and industrial development of Japan ... useful to those who are not familiar with Japanese industrial and technological development, and, among others, to those who cannot read the Japanese literature. Finally, it is worth mentioning that their English interpretation of Japanese names and facts are correct so that they can be trusted.

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