Abstract
Robotics is viewed by economists, technologists, managers and government officials as a key technology of the late twentieth century, one that will potentially affect large segments of manufacturing (and other economic activities) throughout the world.1 At present, two of the leading nations in robotics are Japan and the United States. The government of Japan has targeted robots as one of a small number of industries that it will help in various ways. In the United States, there has been considerable concern that, while many of the basic inventions occurred here, the Japanese robot industry has grown more rapidly and in many respects is ahead of our own.2
The research on which this paper is based was supported by a grant from the Division of Information Science and Technology of the National Science Foundation, which, of course, is not responsible for the views expressed here. My thanks go to Laurence Rosenberg and Charles Brownstein of the Foundation for helpful comments, as well as to the many Japanese and American firms that provided data. 1For example, see Office of Technology Assessment (1984).
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Mansfield, E. (1989). Innovation, R and D, and Firm Growth in Robotics: Japan and the United States. In: Andersson, Å.E., Batten, D.F., Karlsson, C. (eds) Knowledge and Industrial Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95597-6_11
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