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Japan’s university-industry collaboration diverges sharply from the U.S. and the U.K. Japan has a storied history of cooperative R&D (Choy, 1992), but the celebrated collaborations have been among industrial groups and between industry and government (Doane, 1998). For more than a decade, the chief issue in university-industry R&D has been the ability of universities to contribute to the stock of scientific knowledge available to industry for technological innovation. While not everyone agrees that the contribution of Japan’s universities to industrial R&D is modest (for a more positive assessment see Hicks, 1993), it is noteworthy that some of the strongest critics are industry officials.
This chapter was written by Barry Bozeman and Jongwon Park. This chapter and the next draw from interview material developed under a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Office of International Programs with joint funding from Japan’s National Institute of Science and Technology Policy. I gratefully acknowledge their support but the opinions expressed here are solely the authors.
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Rahm, D., Kirkland, J., Bozeman, B. (2000). A Description of University-Industry R&D Collaboartion in Japan. In: University-Industry R&D Collaboration in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan. Library of Public Policy and Public Administration, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9574-2_7
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