| Title: | Setting the Stage: Government-Industry Creation of the Japanese Fax Industry |
| Author: | Coopersmith, Jonathan |
| Abstract: | Discusses the significance of the Japanese government’s role in the development of fax technology as a good model of how governments can influence the agents shaping technology. Describes how the Japanese government’s push on domestic fax manufacturers and telephone companies in the 1970s to create a common standard lead to the fax boom of the 1980s. |
| Department: | IC2 Institute |
| Subject: |
high tech
government telecommunications industry standards JIMT |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18573 |
| Date: | 1997-03 |