No, 1996.
That was the year the US Congress passed the anti-industrial espionage Bill that prevented the Japanese companies from siphoning off the results of federally-funded research.
Until than many (most) Japanese corporate research offices in the US were conveniently located close to major university and college campuses.
In China industrialisation had a brief start, but was killed by the 'if it works, we don't need anything new' culture.
In Europe this started in mid-17th century after the separation of Church and state, so the culture couldn't kill it (literally, see Inquisition), although many innovators were still persecuted.
When Japan, which had 'industrialised' in the 1860s by copying anything and everything produced in Europe, was in 1996 forced to invest in own research facilities and try to change the way culture influenced basic education, that was its true start of industrialisation.
Greg