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U.S.-Japan University Relationships
U.S.-Japan University Relationships
Pages 27-34
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for the invitation to participate in this symposium. I relish the opportunity to take part in an event that honors Gerry Dinneen as he comes to the final months of his distinguished service as foreign secretary of the NAE.
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THE MIT INDUSTRIAL LIAISON PROGRAM My observations date only the to the early 1970s. Of course, there have been focused small-scale relationships between educational institutions in the United States and Japan for many years, including some which began soon after the Meiji Restoration more than 125 years ago.
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First, the program provides a very important channel of corporate feedback about the institute's research and educational activities, and it is a useful mechanism for helping faculty stay informed about the interests, needs, and technological directions of industry. Second, the program develops significant institutional relationships with participating corporations relationships that often lead to high-level partnerships and may include sponsored research or the creation of endowed funds.
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American corporate downsizing efforts and stagnant living standards for most Americans created malaise. The search for root causes focused inexorably on Japan, which was generally demonized as an economic bastion embodying a different kind of capitalism apparently aimed at the domination of world trade, the perpetuation of bamers to imports, and the "buying of America." Of course, these concerns were mirrored in congressional attitudes and actions.
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In the resolution of such conflicts, we believe the Administration, with the advice of the Faculty, should give primary weight to the general responsibility to the nation (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991~. With respect to the ILP in particular, however, the report said: The value of the ILP to the faculty as a vehicle for staying abreast of industrial research, the Program's usefulness in raising resources, and the fact that faculty contacts with American industry through the ILP are only a small portion of their contacts with American industry, argue strongly in favor of the program and give no grounds for recommending reevaluation .
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Indeed, informed economic opinion suggests that two-thirds to three-quarters of these improvements is attributable to the decline in the yen-dollar exchange ratio. The United States needs to continue to work on the fundamental aspects of productivity, including workforce education, process and product design, the organization of work, and the use of capital.
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It seems certain that we will see in the decades ahead further manifestations of what Richard Samuels has called Japan's "technology lust," and that this determined search for novel and important technology, which has made Japan rich and strong in just a few decades, will continue to generate tensions between the United States and Japan centered on trade, jobs, and market share. Japan' s drive for technological independence and for a premier position as a manufacturer of high-value-added, high-technology products will continue unabated and will present difficult challenges to manufacturers here and in Europe for the foreseeable future.
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To conclude, let me suggest that the quality of American science and engineenng is rooted in the nation's research universities and in their historic effectiveness generating knowledge and communicating it to successive generations of young men arid women. That effectiveness has depended on openness the free communication of ideas and research results and on the conviction that the difference between best and second best is all important.
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