R&D provides NTT and Asahi's foundations

AbstractApplied research and development, although critical to our future, cannot be successful without an accompanying quest for fundamental knowledge, i.e., basic research. Using their broad base of technologies, the Japanese are working to create new ideas and products. They firmly believe that the achievement of these relies on a firm foundation in R&D. In this article Mohamed Henini briefly describes some selected new research developments at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) and Asahi Chemicals Industry, which he visited recently