Study on creation of science and technology, and its international flow・transfer.

1989 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 01044168
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Overseas Scientific Survey.
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Institution: University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: YOSHIKAWA Hiroyuki Professor・Faculty of Engneering・University of Tokyo, 工学部, 教授 (20010689)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YAKUSHIJI Taizou Professor・Institute for Policy Science・Saitama University, 政策科学研究科, 教授 (30114218) ; IMAI Kenichi Professor・Institute of Economic Research・Hitotubashi University, 附属産業経営研究施設, 教授 (80017467) ; INOSE Hiroshi Professor・National Center for Science Information System, 教授 (70010618)
• Project Period (FY): 1990
• Keywords: technoglobalism / rules of the game

Research Abstract

Technoglobalization offers enormous potential benefits to the improvement of the quality of life and to economic growth and well being of mankaind. Therefore, it's important to maximize these positive-sum effects and to promote the movement and diffusion of the results of technological development on an international level. In this project, we have focused our research on this subjects.
In order to obtain positive-sum benefits of technoglobalism, nations have attempted to provide a policy environment that is conducive to the success of their leading companies in he new international trading system. On the other hand, they have also put in place a variety of policies that attempt to limit the influence of other nation' spolicies on their performance.
These policies differ substantially among countries. Such differences are causing friction and conflicts among nations. One of the issues that we researched here is the need for a closer convergence of these policies. Harmonization would reduce the tensions that are emerging in the system of world trade, and make possible fuller exploitation of the benefits of technoglobalism.
Private enterprises the world over are engaging more and more frequentry in a variety of formal and informal arrengements. these cross national borders and challenge the abilities of their host nations to establish and enforce the "rules of the game."goverling international economic activities to ensure.
Industrial activity now increaingly centers on the creation, acquisition and utilization of knowledge - especially scientific and technical knoeledge. This has made the definition, treatment, and exchange of intellectual property a central concern of both industry and government. However, the treatment of intellectual property is not hermonized amongst industrial nations, and this has contributed to some of the frictions among them. This prblem must be addressed as a matter of urgency.