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chapter one
Design technology and approval
specication of new products
The competition for technological innovation is now a global phenom-
enon. As innovation increasingly fuels a nation’s wealth, all countries,
especially advanced ones, are emphasizing the development of new
technology. More and more, they are not only directly supporting tech-
nologically inventive companies, but also analyzing and rening their
science and technology policies to enhance progress in this area.
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In the
mid-1980s, due both to Japanese technological superiority in the eld of
semiconductors and trade and budget decits in the United ...