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During the 1980’s, Japanese industries groped for a way to regain their comparative advantage in the international market; their solution was a restructuring into technology intensive and high value-added industries. This choice not only led to the emergence of new “high technology industries”, but also to the reformation of “old industries”. Elaborate adaptations to changes in demand and the spread of demand are now vital in order to produce high profits. Therefore, the product cycle goes faster, and high-variety small-scale manufacturing production gains greater importance than mass-production. In this situation, Research and Development (R&D) activities become very important for the continuous development of new products.
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Okumura, M., Yoshikawa, K. (1994). Measuring Horizontal Inter-Industrial Linkages. In: Johansson, B., Karlsson, C., Westin, L. (eds) Patterns of a Network Economy. Advances in Spatial and Network Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78898-7_12
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