Industrial Policy and Semiconductors
Industrial Policy and Semiconductors

Author: Andrew Ronald Dick

Publisher: A E I Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13:

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In this study, the author critically evaluates the logic behind industrial targeting and explains why these policies fail simple cost-benefit tests. Contrary to the claims of policy activists, the semiconductor industry has not been an exception to the rule.

Mismanaged Trade?
Mismanaged Trade?

Author: Kenneth Flamm

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Published: 2010-12-01

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780815717355

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The semiconductor industry is at the forefront of current tensions over international trade and investment in high technology industries. This book traces the struggle between U.S. and Japanese semiconductor producers from its origins in the 1950s to the novel experiment with "managed trade" embodied in the U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Trade Arrangements of 1986, and the current debate over continuation of elements of that agreement. Flamm provides a thorough analysis of this experiment and its consequences for U.S. semiconductor producers and users, and presents extensive discussion of patterns of competition within the semiconductor industry. Using a wealth of new data, he argues that a fundamentally new trade regime for high technology industries is needed to escape from the present impasse. He lays out the alternatives, from laissez-faire to managed trade, and argues strongly for a new set of international ground rules to regulate acceptable behavior by government and firms in high-tech industries. Flamm's detailed analysis of competition within the semiconductor industry will be of great value to those interested in the industrial organization of high-technology industries, as well as those concerned with trade and technology policy, international competition, and Japanese industrial policies.

Japanese Targeting
Japanese Targeting

Author: Jon Woronoff

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1992-06-18

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 134912561X

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A study of how industrial policy and targeting accelerated Japanese economic development and affected the rest of the world. This book considers who targeted industries, how they were chosen and what techniques were used to support them. It examines both theory and practice of targeting.

Competitive Edge
Competitive Edge

Author: Daniel I. Okimoto

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780804712255

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During the 1970s, Japan supplanted the United States as the world leader in steel production, automobile manufacturing, and consumer electronics. Are the Japanese poised to repeat these successes in the semiconductor industry? This question has vast potential significance, because semiconductor technology holds the key to competitiveness in high technology, one of America's last bastions of industrial supremacy. This book, the product of years of joint research by a multidisciplinary team of American and Japanese scholars, analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of each country's semiconductor industry with reference to three major areas: technological innovation; the role of government, not only in specific policies directed toward the semiconductor industry, but also in the broader context of industrial policy, government-business relations, and the two political systems; and the influence of financial institutions, ties between banks and businesses, and corporate financing. The book provides, in short, a broad yet in-depth analysis of emerging industrial competition in high technology between the world's two largest market economies.