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While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.
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Lewis M. Branscomb, Fumio Kodama (1993) Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions

 

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