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Global Flows and Barriers
Global Flows and Barriers
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These have increased the number of subsidiaries of the multinational corporations and have created new strategic alliances. This has been made possible by a number of communications technologies, such as fiber optics, electronic mail, and particularly satellite communications, a truly revolutionary innovation providing communications worldwide, including developing countries.
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Since the easing of antitrust regulations for cooperative precommercial research and development and the pressures on industry due to increased worldwide competition, there are indications of a movement toward joint technology efforts. In the United States, there is a Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC)
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Even within any one country such as the United States, where large computer companies and small semiconductor companies may have different objectives and backgrounds, the gap between the various participants in a technical field constitutes a barrier to cooperation. The problem is aggravated one hundredfold when there is collaboration between nations.
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One impetus for increased technological cooperation in Europe is competitive pressure from the United States and Japan. In the United States a great deal of money is spent on industrial research.
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Five or 10 years ago the governments were spending considerable sums of money on the sunset industries, and now, they are putting much of their money into high-tech, or sunrise, industries. In the EEC R&D program, there is also a project called BRITE, Basic Research in Industrial Technologies in Europe, which is aimed primarily at the sunshine industries, which are perhaps less high-tech but are still earning money.
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