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Title: Strategic technology alliance: no borders to technology
Review: This book takes a detailed look at the development of Flat Panel Displays and the enormously complex and expensive developments (in science, technology, manufacturing and manufacturing equipment) needed for them. Based on extensive field interviews in the US and Japan, the authors show that no company could have developed the technologies required alone. Instead, a collaborative community of practice of suppliers, manufacturers, scientists, and users had to coalesce, and did, in Japan. Nevertheless, some US firms were critical players: those that collaborated and participated in Japan. This book forces us to rethink simple-minded notions of how and where technology can develop, with profound implications for managing strategy, making trade policy, and understanding increasingly complex high tech strategy.
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