International Friction and Cooperation in High-Technology Development and Trade: Papers and Proceedings (1997)

Summary: This volume is part of an innovative, international project on the Sources of International Friction and Cooperation in High-Technology Development, Competition, and Trade, organized under the auspices of three cooperating institutions—the Hamburg Institute for Economic Research, the Kiel Institute for World Economics, and the National Research Council's Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy. The three institutions were brought together through a grant by the German-American Academic Council (GAAC). As its first policy project, the GAAC chose to sponsor an examination of the development of new technologies and the industries based on them. These technologies and industries are sources of economic growth and high-wage employment; competition for high technology markets makes them also a source of growing international friction that, over time, could undermine both the multilateral trading system and the tradition of shared scientific and technological information.