Dynamics of policy interventions : the case of the government and the automobile industry in Japan c.1900 - c.1960.

Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND DEWEY.Vita.Bibliography : leaves 630-638.Ph.D

Europe and Japan facing high technologies : from conflict to cooperation ?

438 p., fig., ref. bib. : ref. et notes dissem.This book is the final outcome of a four-year research project, the Euro-Japanese Project on High Technology, sponsored by major industrial firms or organizations from Western Europe and Japan. The Project was developed under the joint chairmanship of Helmut Schmidt, former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and of Saburo Okita, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan. As they write in the foreword : "By examining the characteristics of high technologies, describing the respective positions of Europe and Japan in this area, exploring the general problems arising from their development and reflecting on the questions raised by cooperation between Europe and Japan, the Euro-Japanese Project on High Technology addresses itself to themes crucial to the future of our two regions". After a first part devoted to global issues in the world development of high technology and to Euro-Japanese collaboration, the book considers, in a second part, the main fields of high technology : semi-conductors, consumer electronics, telecommunications, computers and office automation, factory automation, biotechnology, aerospace and nuclear energy. The book is written for present or potential policy-makers who want to understand the stakes of the future in high technology : politicians, managers, hiph-level civil servants, opinion leaders, scientists... It should also be of interest to students in business, economics or engineering. The authors, Professor Jacques Lesourne and Professor Raymond Leban on the European side, Professor Keichi Oshima and Professor Taizo Yakushiji on the Japanese side are well-known experts in economics, management analysis and politics of high technology. In the past, Jacques Lesourne and Keichi Oshima have both been Directors at OECD, the first as head of the Interfutures Project and the second as head of the Science, Technology and Industry Directorate