Technological competition and interdependence :  the search for policy in the United States, West Germany, and Japan / 
edited by Günter Heiduk and Kōzō Yamamura. 
 - Seattle :  [Tokyo] :  University of Washington Press ;  University of Tokyo Press,  c1990. 
 - xxv, 255 pages. :  illustrations 
<br/><br/> Rev. papers originally presented at a symposium held in Duisburg, West Germany in Aug. 1987 which was sponsored by the Committee on Japanese Economic Studies of the United States and the Forschungsinstitut für Wirtschaftlich-Technische Entwicklungen in Japan und im Pazifikraum e.V. of Duisburg University. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>What has happened to U.S. technological leadership? / Richard R. Nelson -- Japan's technological capabilities and its future / Sully Taylor and Kōzō Yamamura -- West German technology in the 1980s / Ernst-Jürgen Horn -- The impact of industrial structure and industrial policy on international trade / Motoshige Itoh -- The agenda of the leading nations for the world economy / Peter F. Cowhey -- Effectiveness in technological innovation / Iwao Nakatani -- The German competitive position in trade of technology-intensive products / Harald Legler -- The challenge to U.S. leadership in high technology industries / Rachel McCulloch -- Geography is not destiny / George C. Eads -- The benefits and burdens of the technological leaders / Merton J. Peck. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0295969318 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>89028169  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Technology and state--United States.<br/>Technology and state--Germany (West)<br/>Technology and state--Japan.<br/>Competition, International.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>T 21  / .T39 1990 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.97306