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2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Study on the Kushu's Economy from the viewpoint of Innovation and Knowledge Creation by Corporations and in Industrial Districts

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 21520798
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Human geography
Research InstitutionKyushu University

Principal Investigator

YAMAMOTO Kenji  九州大学, 経済学研究院, 教授 (50136355)

Project Period (FY) 2009 – 2012
Keywords経済・交通地理学 / 産業集積 / 知識創造 / イノベーション / 中小企業 / 九州
Research Abstract

One of the factors for the innovation of the SMEs is their own effort for upgrading technology. The stimulus for its upgrading effort and the needsof the product or the process technology of the SMEs concerned, however, do not stem from the local area where they are located, but from a remote area or outside Kyushu, if the SMEs can realize a remarkable innovation. It is the case not only in an industrialdistrict as well as in a metropolitan area, but also in a rural area. However, the innovative SMEs had strived to meet the needs of the other companies or other economic agencies in their own local area at first, and then they got the order of development of some new product or new process technology by remote customers. They can get such information, because they have established some reputation among corporate managers of specific industrial sectors. In other words, innovative SMEs are corporations which develop from a company responding to the needs in a local area to a company exporting their own new products or process technology for the customers located outside their own local area. However, innovations of individual SMEs do not always lead to the growth of local orregional economies

  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

All Journal Article (2 results) Presentation (6 results)

  • [Journal Article] 非産業集積地域における中小企業のイノベーション2013

    • Author(s)
      山本健兒
    • Journal Title

      商學論集

      Volume: 81巻4号 Pages: 109-129

  • [Journal Article] 産業クラスターと地域経営戦略2010

    • Author(s)
      山本健兒
    • Journal Title

      経済地理学年報

      Volume: 56巻 Pages: 35-38

  • [Presentation] Development policies for peripheral regions: Experiences and prospects in Kyushu, Japan.2012

    • Author(s)
      YAMAMOTO, Kenji & Yoshihiro MIYAMACHI
    • Organizer
      the Global Conference 2012: Sustaining regional futures
    • Place of Presentation
      the Beijing Conference Center in Beijing, China
    • Year and Date
      20120624-27
  • [Presentation] 九州の周辺的産業集積地域に立地するイノベーティヴな製造業中小企業の知識創造2011

    • Author(s)
      山本健兒
    • Organizer
      人文地理学会
    • Place of Presentation
      立教大学
    • Year and Date
      2011-11-13
  • [Presentation] Industrial district of Aritaporcelain in Southwest Japan: Its development and fragmentation. A case study of porcelain manufacturing towns in Northwest Kyushu. Paper presented at the Third Global Conference on Economic Geography 20112011

    • Author(s)
      Yamamoto, Kenji
    • Organizer
      Space, Economy and Environment, held at KOEX in Seoul, Korea, between 28
    • Year and Date
      2011-06-30
  • [Presentation] 有田焼産地におけるイノベーションの試みと域内小産地の自己主張2011

    • Author(s)
      山本健兒
    • Organizer
      日本地理学会2011年春季学術大会
    • Place of Presentation
      明治大学
    • Year and Date
      2011-03-29
  • [Presentation] A declining industrial district in Japan and landscape strategy for its regeneration. A case study of porcelain manufacturing towns in West Kyushu2010

    • Author(s)
      YAMAMOTO, Kenji
    • Organizer
      Paper presented at the German-Japanese Geographical Confer- ence held at the Urban Research Plaza of Osaka City University and Shingu in Wakayama prefecture from 21st through 25thMarch, 2010
    • Place of Presentation
      Urban Research Plaza of Osaka City University
    • Year and Date
      2010-03-23
  • [Presentation] 産業クラスターとイノベーション・知識創造-ナショナル、リージョナル、セクトラルなイノベーション・システムに関する議論の再検討-2009

    • Author(s)
      山本健兒
    • Organizer
      ベンチャー学会イノベーション研究部会
    • Place of Presentation
      早稲田大学
    • Year and Date
      2009-07-25

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Published: 2014-08-29  

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