The Weakest Link: Semiconductor Production Equipment, Linkages, and the Limits to International Trade

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The Weakest Link: Semiconductor Production Equipment, Linkages, and the Limits to International Trade Jay Stowsky August 1987 BRIE Working Paper #27 Jay Stowsky is a Research Fellow at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), University of California, Berkeley, where he is also a doctoral candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning. Mr. Stowsky holds a Master's Degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and received his A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley, in the Political Economy of Industrial Societies. Mr. Stowsky has served as a consultant on economic development issues for the U.S. Congress, the states of California and Massachusetts, and the government of Spain. He is the author of several studies detailing the relationship between high technology sectors and economic development in advanced industrial societies, including Beating Our Plowshares into Double-Edged Swords: The Impact of Pentagon Policies on the Commercialization of Advanced Technologies (BRIE Working Paper #17, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, University of California, Berkeley, April 1986). Funding for this research was provided in part by grants from the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy. My thanks to John Zysman, Anna Lee Saxenian, Steve Cohen and, especially, Michael Borrus for their careful reading and helpful comments, and to Barbara Baran, Jana Gold, Elizabeth