The decline of american hegemony and the rise of global competition, 1. -- The rise erosion of american technological leadership, 2. -- Globalization during the 1980s : The onset of technoglobalism, 10. -- National innovation systems, industrial policies, and the rise of technonationalism, 28. -- Technical advance and market failure, 28. -- National innovation system, 33. -- National policies furing the 1980s : Buching the tide of internationalism, 49. -- Hingt - technology fetishism and techononationalism, 60. -- High - tech conflic in the 1980s, 62. -- The subsidies dispute : Airbus, 64. -- Disputes over government procurement and regulation of standards, 66. -- Investmen - related trade measures, 70. -- Autos and the keiretsu, 74. -- Voluntary import expansion, 75. -- Structural impediments and system friction, 78. -- Coping with system friction : Deeper integration and other means, 79. -- Some implications of technoglobalism, 79. -- Deeper integration : Harmonization and other approaches to reduce system friction, 81. -- International spillovers and reciprocity issues, 95. -- The problem with basic research, 110