"This book analyses the relationship between technological innovation and economic development in Japan before World … patent system. The large amount of new inventions and patents in the period led to fast economic growth in Japan … understanding of Japan's economic development and industrial advancement at an early stage and provide pointers to developing …

competitiveness of nations. It examines the origins of trade and public policy conflict in the United States, Japan, France, and … authors argue that the margin of the U.S. technology lead has been narrowing since the 1960s, caused in part by the rise of … technology. They show how changes in technical competitiveness have created new sources of economic conflict between nations …