Globalization of Technology -- Copyright -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Overview -- Globalization of Industry and Implications for the Future -- The Technology Revolution and the Restructuring of the Global Economy -- REFERENCE -- Global Flows and Barriers -- TRENDS IN INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL COOPERATION -- TECHNOLOGICAL COOPERATION IN EUROPE -- Driving Technologies -- ADVANCES IN SOFTWARE -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- ADVANCES IN MATERIALS SCIENCE -- Information Technologies in Industry and Society -- THE INFLUENCE OF CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGIES -- Very-Large-Scale-Integration Technology -- Computers -- Software and Artificial Intelligence -- Fiber Optics -- Networks -- Standards -- APPLICATIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES -- Normal Telephony -- Mobile Telephony -- Data Communications -- SOCIETAL IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES -- Technological Advances and Challenges in the Telecommunications Sector -- CONVERGENCE OF SERVICE MODES -- MICROELECTRONICS REVOLUTION -- SOFTWARE CRISIS -- STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN INDUSTRY -- STANDARDIZATION -- RELIABILITY AND SECURITY -- Integrity of Information and Protection of Privacy -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Technological Advances in the Construction Sector -- CONSTRUCTION-RELATED DESIGN -- CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AND METHODS -- AUTOMATION AND EXPERT SYSTEMS -- CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT -- THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON CONSTRUCTION MARKETS -- FINAL OBSERVATIONS -- Fifteen Years of Major Structural Changes in Manufacturing -- NEW PRODUCTS, NEW MANAGEMENT, COMMITTED PEOPLE: MEANS FOR SUCCESS -- NEW DEMANDS FROM EMPLOYEES AND CUSTOMERS -- NEW TECHNOLOGY MEANS GREAT CHANGES AND OPPORTUNITIES -- AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY-BIG CONSUMER AS WELL AS PRODUCER OF NEW TECHNOLOGY -- ORGANIZE THE PRODUCTION SO IT DEVELOPS THE EMPLOYEES -- LACK OF PATIENT CAPITAL LEADS TO INADEQUATE EVALUATION OF POSSIBILITIES.

NO SERVICE SECTOR WITHOUT A VIABLE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY -- Globalization of Industry Through Production Sharing -- EVOLUTION OF PRODUCTION SHARING FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE DEVELOPED COUNTRY: THE U.S. CASE -- Production Sharing and Industry Life Cycles -- Growth in Production Sharing -- Tariff Provisions 806 and 807 -- Organizational Arrangement of Production Sharing -- EVOLUTION OF PRODUCTION SHARING FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE DEVELOPING COUNTRY: THE MEXICAN CASE -- Factors Contributing to Mexico's Importance as a Production-Sharing Site -- Organizational Arrangement for Production Sharing -- Growth of Production-Sharing Operations in Mexico: Size, Product Mix, and Location -- Issues of Assembly Operations in Mexico -- Linkages with the National Economy -- Employment -- The Dependency Issue -- Policy Implications for the Developing Countries: The Case of Mexico -- Issues of Production Sharing in Developed Countries -- Policy Implications for the Developed Countries -- CONCLUSIONS -- Bibliography -- Regional and National Consequences of Globalizing Industries of the Pacific Rim -- THE PACIFIC RIM: A THEORETICAL CONSTRUCT -- The Product Cycle -- The Mode of Globalization of Technology -- Gross National Product and Growth Rates -- Globalization and Structural Change -- ASEAN AND COMPLEMENTARITY: GROWTH IN AGRICULTURE AND MANUFACTURING -- Strengths and Characteristics -- Problems and Challenges -- SOUTH KOREA: TECHNOLOGY FIRST, EDUCATION SECOND, SCIENCE THIRD -- Strategies for Growth -- Problems and Challenges -- AUSTRALIA: NATURAL RESOURCES FIRST, SCIENCE SECOND, TECHNOLOGY THIRD -- Resource Development and Technology Transfer -- Industrialization Policies -- Recent Measures -- Problems and Challenges -- UNITED STATES AND JAPAN: ENGINES OF GROWTH IN THE PACIFIC -- Investment and Technology Transfer Strategies -- Sources of Competition.

Problems and Challenges -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Technology and the World Economy: The Case of the American Hemisphere -- LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN IN THE WORLD ECONOMY -- HIGHLIGHTS OF WORLD TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT -- Research and Development Expenditures -- Research and Development and Comparative Advantage in International Trade -- PARTICIPATION OF THE REGION'S COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD ECONOMY -- Roots of Asymmetrical Interdependence -- Development Patterns: 1940-1975 -- Reversing Asymmetry in Trade -- DOMESTIC DEMAND, PRODUCTION, AND TECHNOLOGY -- LINES OF ACTION -- Development of Local Technological Capacity -- Internal and External Transfer of Technology -- Strategic Projects to Integrate Science and Technology -- Government Policy on Science and Technology -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Strategies for U.S. Economic Growth -- QUANTIFYING THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN ECONOMIC GROWTH -- THE REALIZATION OF THE MAJOR ROLE OF CAPITAL INVESTMENT -- HOW GROWTH RATES CAN BE INCREASED -- THE WORLD HAS IRREVOCABLY CHANGED -- THE KEY ROLE OF MANUFACTURING -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO FIRMS -- THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT -- THE MACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT FOR GROWTH AND COMPETITIVENESS -- REFERENCES -- Improving the Quality of Life Through Technology -- COPING WITH CHANGE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY -- INCREASING THE ECONOMIC PIE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Appendixes -- Appendix A The Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences -- Appendix B Sixth Convocation Council Member Academies and Officers -- Member Academies -- Officers -- Appendix C The Sixth Convocation Program: Technology and the Global Economy -- Appendix D List of Participants -- Appendix E Contributors -- Index.