A Disconnect for NTT Labs?

摘要

A proposal to break up Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NTT) has sparked debate among scientists, industry, and government officials about its impact on one of Japan's leading industrial laboratories. Scientists at Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NTT) have long cast an admiring eye on the former AT&T Bell Laboratories, viewing it as a model of how a big corporate lab should mix basic and applied research. But they are horrified by a recent recommendation--to break up the parent company and dismember its labs--that might force them to follow too closely in Bell Lab's recent footsteps.