Abstract
This paper aims at grapsing the present condition of Japan's role in international co-operation in industrial technology for developing countries, and will also look at the future of such relations. Though Japan's spending on technological co-operation is less than that of France, U.S., or W. Germany, it is recently on the rise and reached $853 million in 1978. And Japan is making an efforts to co-operate through such measures as; receiving researchers, sending experts, project type technological co-operation by establishing a technological co-operation center, development and investigation of its needs, research for improvement of its R&D ability, and integrated technological co-operation for promotion of foreign currency acquisition industries. Japan now possesses a wealth of funds and co-operating tools; what is necessary now is to establish the idea and philosophy of international co-operation in industrial technology. I therefore present some new viewpoints on technological co-operation. Each technology is not independent, so we must transfer technology with systematic thought. It is necessary for developing countries to have an opportunity to select the country which has the desirable technology. Instead of transferring technology, we should be transferring innovation ability, because the latter has technology and marketing ability. Because it is no longer possible to avoid problems such as the greenhouse effect, co-operation on a global level is extremely important.
