In this paper, I test the common assumption that Japanese firms strive to appropriate knowledge from the global scientific community while sharing littel in return. I found no support for this conventional perspective in the flat panel display industry. U.S. firms shared no more knowledge with...

The role governments play in new industry creation in developed, capitalist countries is examined.For purposes of this analysis, governments are considered as a group of decision makers who hold power for a limited tenure.To begin, discussion of two alternate national institutional structures,...