eprintid: 4576 rev_number: 21 eprint_status: archive userid: 351 dir: disk0/00/00/45/76 datestamp: 2016-01-15 02:06:22 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:15:23 status_changed: 2016-01-15 02:06:22 type: monograph metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 2 creators_name: Watanabe, C. creators_id: 1605 title: The Interaction Between Technology and Economy: National Strategies for Constrained Economic Environments (The Case of Japan) ispublished: pub internal_subjects: iis_ecn internal_subjects: iis_inn internal_subjects: iis_mnt internal_subjects: iis_sys divisions: prog_mcd abstract: Over the last two decades, Japan has constructed sophisticated and successful interactions between technology and economic development. These resulted from a combination of industry's efforts and the Government's (chiefly MITI's) attempt to stimulate and induce such efforts. As economic growth and technological development continued in the mid-1980s, concern for the globalizing world economy increased. Consequently, Japanese industrial technology reached a turning point requiring further intensive efforts towards basic and creative technology, overcoming energy and environmental constraints, not only for Japan's sake, but also for the sake of the global community. While MITI has restructured its National R&D Program due to the "bubble economy" and its bursting, the Japanese industry faces a structural stagnation in R&D activities which may have negative implications for these historically successful interactions between technology and economic development. This paper demonstrates the source of the interactions, the role of policy and its mechanism, and the current fear regarding their future. date: 1995-02 date_type: published publisher: WP-95-016 iiasapubid: WP-95-016 price: 12 creators_browse_id: 323 full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper place_of_pub: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria pages: 102 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book citation: Watanabe, C. (1995). The Interaction Between Technology and Economy: National Strategies for Constrained Economic Environments (The Case of Japan). IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-95-016 document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4576/1/WP-95-016.pdf