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A series of US government reports at the end of the 1980s raised concerns regarding the possibility of Japan overtaking the United States as the world leader in scientific and technological research in the 1990s. A 1989 report by the Office of Technology Assessment claimed that ‘[a]s the science race becomes the commercial race, Japanese firms could take the lead. Indeed, they may already be doing so’.1 The post-war image of Japan as an adaptor and applicator of ideas generated by purely industrial research and development (IR&D) outside Japan lent reassurance to the US government despite the reversal in the United States’ commercial and capital trading relationship with Japan. By the end of the 1980s the respected authors of a Deutsche Bank report on Japanese investment in IR&D claimed that Japan was ‘… becoming the new-product laboratory for the world’.2
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5 Alliance Techno-nationalism
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Renwick, N. (1995). Alliance Techno-Nationalism. In: Japan’s Alliance Politics and Defence Production. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371453_5
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