Japan's national innovation system: current status and problems
考察了日本国家创新体系在1980年代成功但1990年代竞争力下降的原因，指出人口老龄化将降低潜在增长率，需通过技术进步提高生产率，并分析了产业、大学和政府三个部门的改革方向。
This paper examines Japan's national innovation system that was so successful in the 1980s and seems to have lost its competitiveness in the 1990s. In recent years, the competitiveness of industry relies not only on industry itself but more and more on the national innovation system as a whole. The first section of the paper points out that Japan's potential economic growth rate is likely to decline in the twenty-first century, primarily because of the rapidly ageing population, and, therefore, it is important to increase productivity through technological progress. Then, in the following sections, each sector of Japan's national innovation system, namely industry, universities, and government, is examined and directions of reform are suggested. Copyright 2000 by Oxford University Press.