ABSTRACT
Even in the newly arising modern sector, in Japan the capital, research and skill requirements did not pose insurmountable barriers to the relatively large firms that were favored in these industries. These enterprises often worked with government agencies, or more often with foreign suppliers of the new technologies. The more sophisticated technologies associated with the later technological revolutions, and even the application of these technologies to the "simpler" products of the "first" and "second" revolutions, require of countries now attempting to master these technologies a much more developed scientific and technological infrastructure and, across the commodity spectrum, much higher capital, educational, skill and research requirements than was true prior to or earlier in the twentieth century. The prospects for the further development of cooperative technological ties would appear to be strongest in the East Asian NICs, particularly in the Republic of Korea and Taiwan.
