Format:
1 online resource (205 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415065528
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9780203974858
Series Statement:
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Content:
Credits Japan's industrial success to innovation and training, looking at the pre-War period and in depth at the Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyard. The book has implications for industrial development worldwide
Note:
Cover -- TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN PRE-WAR JAPAN: Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard 1884-1934 -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- FOREWORD -- GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE -- PREFACE -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT-AN INTRODUCTION -- INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE-CHANGING PERSPECTIVES -- TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND TECHNOLOGICAL LEARNING IN PRE-WAR JAPAN-NEED FOR MORE RESEARCH -- MITSUBISHI NAGASAKI SHIPYARD-A CASE STUDY -- 2 SETTING THE STAGE-INDUSTRIALIZATION, SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY AND THE MITSUBISHI NAGASAKI SHIPYARD -- FOUNDATIONS FOR A MODERN INDUSTRIAL STATE -- The transition -- GOVERNMENT ENTERPRISES AND EARLY INDUSTRIAL POLICIES -- GROWTH, STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES, 1884-1934 -- Industrial growth and structural change -- Industrial policies -- DEVELOPMENT OF THE SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY -- Early developments -- Growth and technological development -- The role of the navy -- DEVELOPMENT OF THE MITSUBISHI NAGASAKI SHIPYARD -- Early developments and the Mitsubishi firm -- The Nagasaki Shipyard under Mitsubishi -- 3 TECHNOLOGY IMPORTS AT MITSUBISHI NAGASAKI SHIPYARD -- EARLY NATIONAL STRATEGIES IN TECHNOLOGY IMPORTS -- Employment of foreigners -- Overseas missions -- Other modes of technology imports -- TECHNOLOGY IMPORTS AT NAGASAKI SHIPYARD -- Employment of foreigners -- Overseas missions -- Imports of machinery and materials -- Purchases of manufacturing and sales licences -- Journals, books and professional societies -- 4 EDUCATION AND TRAINING AT MITSUBISHI NAGASAKI SHIPYARD -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORMAL EDUCATION -- The diffusion of education -- Formal educational programmes in naval architecture and marine engineering -- WITHIN-ENTERPRISE TRAINING PROGRAMMES FOR WORKERS AND TECHNICIANS AT THE NAGASAKI SHIPYARD -- On-the-job training of workers
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Mitsubishi Kogyo Gakko and the training of shugyosei -- Mitsubishi Shokko Gakko -- TRAINING ENGINEERS AND SHORT-TERM TRAINING PROGRAMMES -- Recruiting and training engineers -- Short-term training programmes -- 5 RESEARCH AND INVENTIVE ACTIVITIES AT MITSUBISHI NAGASAKI SHIPYARD -- NATIONAL EFFORTS IN INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH -- THE ROLE OF IN-HOUSE RESEARCH BODIES -- Jikkenba, the laboratory at Nagasaki and the Experimental Tank -- Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Company Research Institute -- MANAGEMENT OF RESEARCH AND INVENTIVE ACTIVITIES -- Policy towards inventive activities -- Technological research committees -- Mitsubishi Technological Research Meeting and links with universities, research institutes and professional societies -- 6 INDIGENOUS TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS AT MITSUBISHI NAGASAKI SHIPYARD -- STEAM TURBINE ENGINES -- Importing the technology and the development of design capability -- Research on blade material and rotor balancing -- Impulse turbines -- ELECTRIC WELDING -- Importing and the diffusion of the technology -- Research and the training programme for electric welders -- DIESEL ENGINES -- Vickers' diesel engines -- Sulzer's diesel engines -- MS diesel engine -- 7 TECHNOLOGICAL LEARNING AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT-CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- TECHNOLOGICAL LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGICAL STRATEGIES AT MITSUBISHI NAGASAKI SHIPYARD-CONCLUSIONS -- SOME POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF THE JAPANESE EXPERIENCE -- APPENDIX: OVERSEAS MISSIONS FROM MITSUBISHI NAGASAKI SHIPYARD 1896-1935 -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Additional Edition:
Print version Fukasaku, Yukiko Technology and Industrial Growth in Pre-War Japan Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c1992 ISBN 9780415065528
Language:
English
Keywords:
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