Manufacturing Technology -- a Changing Challenge to Improved Productivity: Report to the CongressU.S. General Accounting Office, 1976 - 144 pages |
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Page 41 - Resources in the Research Applied to National Needs (RANN) Program of the National Science Foundation.
Page 83 - ... in said Act; and is with the Department of Defense, the General Services Administration, the Energy Research and Development Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Federal...
Page 45 - The National Technical Information Service of the US Department of Commerce is the central source for the public sale of Government-sponsored research, development and engineering reports and other analyses prepared by Federal agencies, their contractors or grantees, or by Special Technology Groups.
Page 81 - Japan by (1) limiting the induction of foreign investnent to that which will contribute to the self support and sound development of the Japanese economy and to the improvement of the international balance of payments.
Page ii - Furthermore, foreign competitors seem to be surpassing us in using this new technology to improve their industrial productivity. In the 30 years since the end of World War II, other industrialized nations have had rates of improved industrial productivity consistently higher than those of the United States.
Page 96 - ... research, and education parallel the conclusions from a GAO study, "Manufacturing Technology - A Changing Challenge to Productivity" [9], also cited in the Plan, which concluded that "Significant short-term benefits are possible through improved diffusion of the available technology. For long-term sustained productivity increases, research and development is necessary to find new methods, and to refine existing technology so that it can be economically used outside the few highly capitalized,...
Page 53 - The acceptance, to a greater or less degree, by Japanese businessmen of the government's goals and priorities is based on two all important factors: — a reluctance on the part of both business and government to unilaterally adopt policies or undertake major moves in the high priority sectors of the economy without consulting each other; — a propensity, which all Japanese share, for a consensual approach to harmonizing differences that may exist within as well as between each group. "These cultural...
Page 78 - ... produce their own materials and perform services just as the JPC does. But, just as with the JPC, these products and services must be marketable. 3. Other formal centers In addition to the two centers described above, there are many others. In Europe 15 of these centers formed an autonomous body in 1966 called the European Association of National Productivity Centers. Membership includes: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands,...
Page 14 - advances in knowledge" must be construed comprehensively. It includes what is usually defined as technological knowledge — knowledge concerning the physical properties of things, and of how to make, combine, or use them in a physical sense. It also includes "managerial knowledge" — knowledge of business organization and of management techniques construed in the broadest sense. Advances in knowledge comprise knowledge originating in this country and abroad, and knowledge obtained in any way: by...