Learning the R & D System Industrial R & D in Japan and the United States (1990) / Chapter Skim
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U.S. industry carries out more than 70 percent of all R&D in the United States; Japanese industry carries out about 66 percent of the total.
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7 Some examples of major international research programs promoted by the Japanese government include the Human Frontier Science Program, the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Program, the Human Genome Project, the Exploratory Research in Advanced Technologies (ERATO) Program, the International Superconductivity Technology Center, and the Frontier Science Program of STA.
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The study, based on a survey of 550 R&D engineers and scientists, provides empirical evidence of the preference for generalists, the homogenization of rewards across functions in Japanese firms, and the movement of Japanese researchers out of R&D and into other functions within the corporation. 16 Udo Axen, remarks at the U.S.-Japan Dialog on the Working Environment for Research: Workshop on Industrial R&D, Irvine, California, March 1-2, 1990.
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31 Fumio Kodama, "Rivals' Participation in Collective Research: Its Economic and Technological Rationale," Workshop on Expanding Access to Precompetitive Research in Japan and the United States, January 22-23, 1990. 32 Reiichi Iokibe and Morio Ikehara, "Research Consortium on Protein Engineering," U.S.-Japan Dialog on the Working Environment for Research: Workshop on Industrial R&D, Irvine, California, March 1-2, 1990.
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47 Examples cited include the Human Frontier Science Program, the International Superconductivity Technology Consortium, and a Japanese proposal for an Intelligent Manufacturing System (IMS) project involving the United States, Europe, and Japan.
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