Assessing new trends in technology management and industrial training in the United States

Abstract

The US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, on behalf of the Department of Defense, has funded the US-Japan Industry and Technology Management Training Program involving universities in merit based competition since 1991 to increase understanding of Japanese technology management practice. The main objective of this program is to upgrade the US industrial infrastructure by increasing the rate of investment in training and research dissemination. This paper is aimed to give an overall assessment of the program's ability to organize the exchange of research and industrial training in such a way to engage US government agencies and firms, with their Japanese counterparts, in a large number of topical and well-received symposia workshop, remote education/teleconferencing as well as training via internship program.