Robots and the Imitation Process: Japan and the USA

Edwin Mansfield

Chapter 21 in Technology Transfer in the Developing Countries, 1990, pp 273-280 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 1961, I proposed a simple model to represent the imitation process — the process by which the use of an innovation spreads from firm to firm.1 This model has been used to analyse the imitation process for dozens of innovations, ranging from the diesel locomotive to numerically controlled machine-tools.2 This chapter summarises very briefly some of the results of a recent study I conducted in which this model was used to analyse the spread of industrial robots, one of the most important manufacturing innovations of the late twentieth century, in both Japan and the USA.3

Keywords: Industrial Robot; Japanese Firm; Auto Part; Motor Industry; Japanese Industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-20558-5_21

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