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Science 18 July 1986:
Vol. 233. no. 4761, pp. 296 - 301
DOI: 10.1126/science.233.4761.296
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Articles

Japanese Research and Technology Policy

LEONARD LYNN 1

1 Assistant professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.

Until recently the Japanese did not spend much on research and what they did spend was concentrated on the commercial development of technology. As a result there have so far been few Japanese breakthroughs in either science or technology. Dramatic changes have recently occurred, however, and Japan now trails only the United States and the Soviet Union in research spending. Beyond this, Japanese policy-makers are making a determined effort to overcome Japan's social and institutional barriers to scientific creativity.

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