| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research presents a perspective of economic geography to examine the localization of economic activities in the global economy. Much of the literature on globalization notes that the contemporary economies have become placeless. Spatial economics gives an insight to explain geography of the global economy across cities, regions, and nation states with a special interest on the economies of scale and transportation cost. This approach, however, has not grasped the dynamics of technological change of production. Technological change from traditional television sets using cathode ray tubes (CRTs) to flat panel displays well illustrates the empirical evidence. To examine localization, we must more carefully into the relationship between geographical distance and institutional distance. Industrial development and location of LCD panel are examined at three layers of spatial scale: global, regional (East Asia) and local.
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