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Robots and the Imitation Process: Japan and the USA

In: Technology Transfer in the Developing Countries

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  • Edwin Mansfield

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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

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  • Edwin Mansfield, 1990. "Robots and the Imitation Process: Japan and the USA," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Manas Chatterji (ed.), Technology Transfer in the Developing Countries, chapter 21, pages 273-280, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-20558-5_21
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-20558-5_21
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