Display's the Thing: The Real Stakes in the Conflict over High-Resolution Displays

Abstract

Japan has a strong lead over both the United States and Western Europe in the development of liquid crystal displays (LCDs). We argue in this article that LCDs and associated integrated display technologies are critical for competition in a growing proportion of global electronics markets. The “architecture of supply” is the issue here, and U.S. firms need help from the government to insure that they will have access to the latest display technologies in a timely manner at market prices. Besides adopting foreign economic policies designed to achieve this purpose, it will be necessary for the government to continue to work with the domestic electronics industry to raise the industry's technological capabilities in new display technologies.

An Information Interface Quantized Evaluation Method for Wireless Sensor Networks

“…A sensor interface with better usability and visual appeal also must boost the competitiveness of sensor [9,10]. Therefore, the designing of sensor interface is drawing more and more attention of people.…”

Grappling with Globalisation: Challenges for Economic Governance

“…This occurs in the backdrop of increasing 'technologisation' of trade, that is, the increasing salience of high technology products in global trade. States can employ strategic trade and investment policies (STIPs) for developing domestic architectures-of-supply (Borrus and Hart, 1994) in critical technologies. Imperfect markets create a potential for super-normal profits and such interventions may shift these profits from foreign to home-based firms.…”

Strategic Trade and Investment Policies: Implications for the Study of International Political Economy

“…(a) the technological-trajectory theory (Borrus, 1988 andTyson, 1992;Weber and Zysman, 1992;and Borrus and Hart, 1994); (b) the structuralist theory (Servan-Schreiber, 1968;Stoffaes, 1987;Gilpin, 1987;Lake, 1988;and Krasner, 1977); and (c) the institutionalist theory (Zysman, 1983;Hall, 1986;Hart, 1992;Encarnation, 1992;and Tyson, 1992).…”

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