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Technological development: The United States and Japan
Abstract
The methodology of comparative public administration, which examines similarities and differences in different systems, is the primary analytical tool used in this dissertation, which focuses on Japanese and U.S. technological development. It examines inter-relationships between technology, economy, and politics, national ideologies, national security, innovation institutions, and instruments of technology policy and strategies. The research question of the dissertation includes four sub-factors. (1) While both the U.S. and Japan have continued to support technological development, (2) U.S. efforts to support defense technology are far more obvious and tangible than those of Japan, which go on behind the scenes. (3) The U.S. government and Japan's industry have both been major sources of financing technological development for their respective industries. In addition, (4) the U.S. aerospace technology as well as its electrical equipment technology, and Japan's machinery and computer technologies, together with the Japanese electrical equipment technology, have been strategically supported by each country. This dissertation disconfirms the hypothesis that only the U.S., not Japan, has made efforts to develop defense technology. Japan's development of dual-use technology, which means that a technology can be used for both civilian and military applications, is a major tenet of this dissertation.
Subject Area
Public administration|Political science
Recommended Citation
Ha, Kyoo-Man, "Technological development: The United States and Japan" (1997). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI9805507.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9805507