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Appendix D. Site Reports—Japan 269<br />

Site:<br />

NEC<br />

Electron Devices Laboratory<br />

34 Miyugaoka<br />

Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan<br />

Fax: (81) 298-56 6135<br />

Date Visited: 23 July 1997<br />

WTEC:<br />

Hosts:<br />

H. Goronkin (report author), D. Cox, J. Mendel,<br />

H. Morishita, M.C. Roco, R.W. Siegel<br />

Dr. Kohroh Kobayashi, General Manager, Fundamental<br />

Research Laboratories<br />

Dr. Jun’ichi Sone, Senior Manager, Advanced Device<br />

Research Lab<br />

Dr. Y. Ochiai, Manager, Advanced Device Research Lab<br />

Dr. K. Tanaguchi, Manager, Exploratory Research Lab<br />

BACKGROUND<br />

Funding:<br />

Targeting:<br />

Staffing <strong>and</strong><br />

Foci of NEC<br />

Labs:<br />

1% of NEC’s sales go to its Corporate Research Laboratory<br />

(including the Fundamental Research Laboratories)<br />

70% of funding is from the corporate level<br />

30% is contract funding from business groups<br />

15% of funding for Fundamental Research Laboratories is<br />

from business groups <strong>and</strong> national projects<br />

Business group R&D, from three to five years<br />

Fundamental R&D Labs, from five to ten years<br />

Tsukuba: 300 (devices, materials, fundamental orientation)<br />

Kawasaki: 1,100 (computer <strong>and</strong> communication systems,<br />

software, <strong>and</strong> components)<br />

Princeton: 50-60 (computer science <strong>and</strong> physical science)<br />

Berlin, Bonn: (computers <strong>and</strong> communications software for<br />

parallel computers <strong>and</strong> ATM transmission technologies)

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