Why do some country’s hi-tech firms innovate better than others? Why did hi-tech firms from the United States outperform such Japanese companies in the 1990s? Through a wealth of empirical evidence, the book compares the development trajectory of manufacturing technology and information...

Investigates trans-national technology spillover mechanisms involving host firms in Japan and donor firms elsewhere. Included in these mechanisms are the technology spillover contribution to production increase and the role of assimilation. Two terms are used to describe the parties involved --...

Successive increases in R&D that creates new functionality are essential for global competitiveness. However, unexpectedly, as a consequence of the two-faced nature of information and communication technology (ICT), excessive R&D results in a marginal productivity decline leading to a decrease...