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Decentralized Technology Policy: The Case of Japan

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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)

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.

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  • T Kawashima & W Stöhr, 1988. "Decentralized Technology Policy: The Case of Japan," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 6(4), pages 427-439, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:6:y:1988:i:4:p:427-439
    DOI: 10.1068/c060427
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    1. Sternberg, Rolf G., 1996. "Government R & D expenditure and space: empirical evidence from five industrialized countries," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 25(5), pages 741-758, August.
    2. Steven Bass, 1998. "Japanese Research Parks: National Policy and Local Development," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(5), pages 391-403.

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