Promoting industrial development through technology policy: Lessons from Japan and China

Technology in Society

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 303-320

  Fan, Peilei ^a   Watanabe, Chihiro ^b  

^a UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

China; Industrial development; Japan; Technology policy

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PUBLIC POLICY; TECHNOLOGY;

JAPAN; PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA; TECHNOLOGY POLICY;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DEVELOPING WORLD; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; NUMERICAL METHOD; TECHNOLOGY POLICY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 33748700436     PISSN: 0160791X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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