TY  - JOUR
AU  - Branstetter, Lee
AU  - Nakamura, Yoshiaki
TI  - Is Japan's Innovative Capacity in Decline?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9438
PY  - 2003
Y2  - January 2003
DO  - 10.3386/w9438
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9438
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9438.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Lee G. Branstetter
Heinz College
School of Public Policy and Management
Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA  15213
Tel: 412/268-4649
E-Mail: branstet@andrew.cmu.edu

Yoshiaki Nakamura
Director, Business Environment Promotion Division
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
1-3-1, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku
100-8901, JAPAN
Tel: 03-3501-0645
Fax: 03-3580-6231
E-Mail: yoshiaki.n.ny@gmail.com
M1  - published as Lee G. Branstetter, Yoshiaki Nakamura. "Is Japan's Innovative Capacity in Decline?," in Magnus Blomström, Jennifer Corbett, Fumio Hayashi and Anil Kashyap, editors, "Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan" University of Chicago Press (2003)

AB  - This paper investigates changes in the output and productivity of research and development activities in Japanese manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D statistics and a micro-level analysis of R&D productivity at the firm-level suggest that there has been a slowdown in the growth of Japanese research productivity in the 1990s. The paper goes on to suggest possible explanations for this slowdown and reviews some of the steps Japanese firms are taking to increase the effectiveness of their R&D. The paper presents empirical evidence concerning the impact of one of these steps   the creation of technology alliances with U.S. firms   on Japanese innovative output.
ER  -