Japan-related publications and materials

	NISTEP Presentation
	Shapira, P., & R. Furukawa, "Evaluating a large-scale research and development program in Japan: methods, findings and insights," International Journal of Technology Management, 26 (4), 2003, pp. 166-190. [Abstract] [Journal]
	Shapira, P., Systems for Supporting Small Business in the United States: Insights and Challenges from State Programs in Georgia. In: An Investigation of Economic Trends, Employment and Labor in the American Economy, pp. 124-149, (Kojima, N., Ed.), Tokyo: Japan Institute of Labour, Foreign Studies 53, 2001. アメリカの陰と光―アメリカ経済の動向と雇用・労働の現状を探る海外調査シリーズ (53) [PDF: Japanese \| English \| ISBN 4538250538]
	Shapira, P., Youtie, Y., Porter, A., Mohaptra, S., Oh, E., and DiMinin, A. (2001). Evaluation of the MITI Advanced Material Processing and Machining Technology Program. Prepared for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Tokyo, Japan. Georgia Tech School of Public Policy and Technology Policy and Assessment Center, Atlanta, GA.
	Shapira, P., Review of “Managing Decline: Japan’s Coal Industry Restructuring and Community Response,” by Suzanne Culter (Honolulu: University Of Hawaii Press, 1999) in Pacific Affairs, Volume 73, No. 3, Fall 2000, pp. 438-439.
	Shapira, P., Review of “Small Firms in the Japanese Economy,” by D. H. Whittaker (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997) in Pacific Affairs, vol. 72, no. 1, April 1999, pp. 97-98.
	Shapira, P., “Comments on Osaka’s Asia Linkages Strategy,” Invited commentary on “Osaka’s Asia Linkages Strategy: Regional Integration in East Asia, Local Development in Japan,” by R.C. Hill and K. Fujita, Urban Affairs Review, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 522-525, March 1998.
	Shapira, P., "Regional Technology Infrastructures for Japanese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Policies and Programs for Technological Modernization, in Japan's Technical Standards: Implications for Global Trade and Competitiveness, (J. McIntyre, Ed.), Westport, CT: Quorum Books (1997).
	Modernizing Small Manufacturers in the United States and Japan: Public Technology Infrastructures and Strategies, in Technological Infrastructure Policy (TIP): An International Perspective, (M. Teubal, D. Foray, M. Justman, and E. , pp. 285-334, Zuscovitch, Eds.), Kluwer Academic Press, 1996.
	The Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Center, Program Report for the Asian Technology Information Program. Philip Shapira, 1995.
	Kanagawa Science Park, Program Report for the Asian Technology Information Program. Philip Shapira, 1995.
	In 1994, a Modernization Forum Study Mission visited Japan to examine trends affecting small and mid-size manufacturing enterprises (SMEs), national and local SME support policies, and changes in small firm relationships with larger firms. Several public and regional technology centers which assist small and mid-sized firms were visited. A summary report of the mission was published in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Japanese Technical Literature Bulletin (April 1995, No. 26). Page 1 [66K]; Page 2 [74K].
	Shapira, P., Review of “Japanese Multinationals in the Changing Context of Regional Policy” by Man-Hee Han (Aldershot, UK and Brookfield, Vermont, USA, Avebury, 1994) in Town Planning Review, 1995.
	The R&D Workers: Managing Innovation in Britain, Germany, Japan and the United States. Edited by Philip Shapira, Quorum Books, 1995. [About the book \| Order]
	Planning for Cities and Regions in Japan. Edited By Philip Shapira, Ian Masser and David W. Edgington, Liverpool University Press, 1994. [About the book \| Order ]
	Shapira, P., “Collaborative Business Exchange and Technology Fusion: The Japanese Approach,” Firm Connections, September/October, 1994, pp. 10-12.
	Shapira, P., “Industrial Restructuring, Employment Adjustment, and Economic Development in a Steel Town: The Case of Kitakyushu,” Kenku Kiyo, March 1994.
	Shapira, P., “Helping Manufacturers Do Better: Japan Looks After the Little Guys,” IEEE Spectrum, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 70-73, September 1993.
	Shapira, P., “American State and Local Economic Development Strategies: The Third Wave and Insights for Japan,” Japan Institute of Labor Monthly, September 1993 [Japanese].
	Shapira, P., “The Kohsetsushi Method,” Works in Progress, Cleveland Advanced Manufacturing Program, Winter 1993/1994.
	Shapira, P. “Lessons from Japan: Helping Small Manufacturers,” Issues in Science and Technology, vol. VIII, no. 3, pp. 66-72, Spring 1992. Reprinted in Japan Technical Affairs, vol. I, no. 2, pp. 15-20, Spring 1993.
	Modernizing Small Manufacturers in Japan: The Role of Local Public Technology Centers. Philip Shapira. Journal of Technology Transfer, Winter 1992, 40-57. [ACROBAT *PDF 1.5MB]. View a clickable map of Kohsetsushi Centers in Japan, by Prefectures and Localities, [Select here]
	Shapira, P., Japan's Kohsetsushi Program of Regional Public Examination and Technology Centers for Upgrading Small and Mid-size Manufacturing Firms, Report to the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1990.
	Shapira, “Industrial Restructuring and Economic Development Strategies in a Japanese Steel Town: The Case of Kitakyushu,” Town Planning Review, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 389-411, 1990.
	Shapira, P., Workshop on the MIT-Japan Science and Technology Program, report prepared for the U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Washington, DC, 1988.

Research visits to Japan: 1989; 1990; 1993 &1994 (Visiting Researcher, Japan Institute of Labour); 1994 (Modernization Forum); 1999 (Nagano-Georgia Exchange Mission; NISTEP, Science and Technology Agency); 1999 (JIL Symposium on Economic Growth and Labor Markets in the United States); 2000 and 2001 (Evaluation of AMPMT, METI); 2002 - 6th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, Kansai Science City; 2003 - R&D Evaluation Training Program, MEXT, Toxyo; 2004 - OECD Territorial Review of Regional Development Policy in Japan (Tokyo, Kakegawa, Osaka).

Research in Science, Technology, and Regional Development in Japan
at the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Publications and Research Studies on Japan

Research in Science, Technology, and Regional Development in Japan at the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Publications and Research Studies on Japan

Research in Science, Technology, and Regional Development in Japan
at the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology