Decentralized Technology Policy: The Case of Japan

T Kawashima and W Stöhr
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T Kawashima: Department of Economics, Gakushuin University, 1-5-1 Mejiro, Toshima-Ku, Tokyo 171, Japan
W Stöhr: Interdisciplinary Institute for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Economics, Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

Environment and Planning C, 1988, vol. 6, issue 4, 427-439

Abstract: Japan has developed what might be called a three-tier technology policy consisting of the national Tsukuba Science City, a set of nineteen technopolises dispersed over strategic locations along the entire archipelago, and a still more dispersed set of ‘research cores’ serving primarily as incubators for small and medium-size high-technology firms. The objective is to overcome the limitations of earlier phases of centralized policy and make the transition from external imitation to indigenous creative innovation on as broad a basis as possible. Data on the number of high-technology enterprises established per sector in technopolises, and on acreage occupied, are presented. Conditions for the international transfer of experiences in this field are then discussed.

Date: 1988
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