Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace. The British shipbuilding revolution and Japanese industrialization
Details:
- Author(s) Matsumoto, Miwao
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2006
- Pages 248pp; illus
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Place Published Basingstoke
Topics:
- Name Transfer of technology, processes, management techniques, etc
Countries:
- Japan
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Also covers naval architecture. Deals with the structure and function of technology gatekeepers in the transfer of marine science and technology - notably warship technology - from Britain to Japan in the early 20th century. Chapters include: 'The technology gatekeepers - the Role of the Navy and Mitsubishi in the ship revolution'; 'The emergence of the Japanese military-industrial-university complex'; 'Spin-on and latecomers' advantages reconsidered - British development and Japanese transfer in social context'; 'Spin-off in the nationalization of R & D - the recasting of the British system in an industrializing Japan'; 'Conclusion - beyond success or failure'