70年代中期,日本达到了主要资本主义国家科技发展的水平,从而达到了其战后的重要战略目标之一。在西方论述日本科技进步的文献中,形成了一种固定的看法,认为日本的重要特点是复制或模仿外国技术比发明或进行自己的开拓性研制的能力更强。例如他们经常强调,同其他发达资本主义国家相比,日本很少进行基础研究,但善于利用进口工艺:日本企业比西方企 In the mid-1970s, Japan reached the level of technological development in the major capitalist countries and thus reached one of its major post-war strategic goals. In the Western literature on Japan’s progress in science and technology, there has been a fixed view that the key feature of Japan is its ability to copy or imitate foreign technologies more than to invent or conduct its own pioneering work. For example, they often emphasize that compared with other developed capitalist countries, Japan rarely conducts basic research but is adept at using imported technology: Japanese companies are more sophisticated than Western ones