The Japanese Way of Scientific and Technical Development

B. Komzin

Japanese Economy, 1973, vol. 2, issue 2, 25-47

Abstract: The relatively more rapid growth of social spending on science; the industrialization of the very research and development process; the more extensive processing of raw materials leading to the reduction of the material intensiveness of production and to the reinforcement of the positions of the manufacturing industry; the accelerated development of the electric power base of production; the mastery of new sources and methods of power production; the ever broader application of electronics and computers; and the intensive process of updating the assortment of commodities, and especially equipment —all these and other processes have become virtually synonymous with the scientific and technical revolution. They are associated with the objective features of the modern revolution in the technical production base of industrially developed nations. However, the content and diversity of directions of scientific -technical progress are, of course, not confined solely to its main aspects.

Date: 1973
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