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Global Dimensions , ~ Competition and Cooperation COMPARISONS IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY From an international perspective, understanding the benefits and challenges of programs to support industry is important insofar as they have been and remain a central element in the national development strategies of both industrial and industrializing countries. Governments around the world believe the composition of their economy matters.
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ERSO, originally supported by government funds, has since maintained itself by acquiring contracts. Taiwan further boosted its semiconductor industry by contributing public finds to the formation of UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation)
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But other choices, such as the provision of secured demand for industry output through military procurement in the United States and through preferential procurement of computers and telecommunications equipment in Japan, have been industry specific in intent and implementations 5For current programs in semiconductors, see National Research Council, Securing the Future: Regional and National Programs to Support the Semiconductor Industry, op.
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9See the paper by Thomas Howell, "Competing Programs: Government Support for Microelectronics," in Securing the Future: Regional and National Programs to Support the Semiconductor Industry, op.
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In doing so, some national programs are altering the terms of global economic competition, with policies that differ in important ways from those of the traditional leaders.~3 The levels of investment and promotional activity across many countries attest to the importance governments attach to the semiconductor industry. The emergence of China, for reasons of scale and skill, is likely to pose a major competitive challenge, especially as cooperation increases with the highly competent Ta~wanese industry.
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cit. For a comprehensive review of national programs for semiconductors, see Thomas Howell, op.
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industry's interests. See Thomas Howell, "Competing Programs, Government Support for Microelectronics," in National Research Council, Securing the Future: Regional and National Programs to Support the Semiconductor Industry, op.
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cooperation, and furthered mutually beneficial science and technology cooperation between the European Union and the United States two of the premier research areas of the world. 29See National Research Council, New Vistas in Transatlantic Science and Technology Cooperation, C
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