The Race to Commercialize Biotechnology: Molecules, Market and the State in Japan and the US by Steven Collins
Provides comparative analysis of technological innovation (with particular focus on US and Japan)
Gives detailed historical account of first 20 years of commercial biotechnology in Japan and US
Up to date - last detailed study of the political economy of Japanese biotechnology using primary sources to be published in England was in 1989 (Brock - Biotechnology in Japan)