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5. Policy Considerations
5. Policy Considerations
Pages 32-40
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It is also a response to charges by foreigners that the country is a "science and technology free rider." The official Japanese position is that international collaboration of all types, especially in basic research, will be critical in spurring scientific progress in coming years.43 According to this view, bringing scientists from different countries together will generate new ideas and concepts. It will also accelerate the international diffusion of knowledge, because no one country or company can go it alone due to the high cost and high risk involved in research.
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. Japan approaches IMS with the conviction that manufacturing is important and that international collaboration on software standards and other areas of technology development will lead to faster diffusion of advanced manufacturing technology.
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the company is a United States-owned company; or (ii) the Secretary of Commerce finds that the company has a parent company which is incorporated in a country which affords the United States-owned companies opportunities, comparable to those afforded to any other company, to participate in any joint venture similar to those funded through the Advanced Technology Program; affords to United States-owned companies local investment opportunities comparable to those afforded to any other company; and affords adequate and effective protection for the intellectual property rights of United States-owned companies."
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SEMATECH is not contemplating foreign membership. The proposed acquisition of Semi-Gas Systems, which had been working closely with SEMATECH in developing more advanced gas handling systems for wafer fabrication, by its major Japanese competitor Nippon Sanso, has focused attention on the foreign participation question.
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There has generally been a positive evaluation of the efforts by the Commerce Department to incorporate private sector views in building a 48"Europe's Embattled Electronics Industry Delivers Strong Protectionist Message," The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, April I, 1991, p.
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An ad hoc industry group and other mechanisms have been utilized to foster dialogue. Those interested in participating see the project as a harbinger of the future; new modes of international collaboration involving the United States and Japan, if carefully developed, could provide mechanisms for technology transfer from Japan.
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Efforts to strengthen Japanese enforcement of antitrust and modify regulations on foreign investment are being pursued in the "structural impediments" talks between the two countries. Approach B: Press for international rules governing public support for R&D consortia that would codify national treatment.
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firms in the home country. In proposed legislation, reciprocity requirements encompass the investment and general business environments of the home country as well as the ability of U.S.
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If "do nothing" is instead interpreted as the logical continuation of present trends, some combination of Approaches A, C, and D could become de facto policy unless there are further shifts of opinion within Congress, the administration, or both. R&D consortia present important and complex policy questions.
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