Abstract
Japan has developed what might be called a three-tier technology policy consisting of the national Tsukuba Science City, a set of nineteen technopolises dispersed over strategic locations along the entire archipelago, and a still more dispersed set of ‘research cores’ serving primarily as incubators for small and medium-size high-technology firms. The objective is to overcome the limitations of earlier phases of centralized policy and make the transition from external imitation to indigenous creative innovation on as broad a basis as possible. Data on the number of high-technology enterprises established per sector in technopolises, and on acreage occupied, are presented. Conditions for the international transfer of experiences in this field are then discussed.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.