U.S. Industry Access to Japanese Science and Technology: Proceedings of aConference. Held on March 27-28, 1991

摘要

A summary is provided of a conference which was intended to acquaint high-levelU.S. executives and policy makers with the importance of Japanese scientific and technical (S&T) literature. It was also intended to help them to begin to address the complicated issues of how a company gathers and monitors such information, and to explain what benefits can result from such efforts. A secondary objective was to explain the framework established by the 1988 U.S./Japan S&T Agreement, and how the agreement affects the bilateral S&T relationship. The topics covered ranges from corporate evaluation programs for Japanese S&T to tracking Japanese technical information from the viewpoint of major U.S. corporations. Other topics include access for U.S. industrial researchers to Japanese national and private laboratories; using industry, university and government partnerships to respond to the Japanese; and defining the national interest through cooperation and competition.