prof. dr. Cyrus C. M. Mody
Professor of the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University
Director, MUSTS Research Cluster
PI, NWO Vici "Managing Scarcity"/Co-PI, ERC Synergy "NanoBubbles"

 

Dear all, 

I am passing on a question I could not answer from my mentor Richard John: 

“Is there any reliable historical writing (in English or any other language—eg Japanese) on the influence of U. S. anti-trust policy on the adoption of the transistor by the Japanese computer electronics industry in the 1950s? 

Though Bell began to license its transistor patent before the 1956 U. S. Justice Department consent decree—recent legal scholars have attributed great significance to that ruling in shaping the future course of consumer electronics”

Richard R. John, rrj2115@columbia.edu

All the best,

Susannah 

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