2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The Existing SMEs in Urban-typed Manufacturing Agglomeration

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23530338
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Economic policy
Research Institution	Nihon University
Principal Investigator	KOBAYASHI SEIJI 日本大学, グローバル・ビジネス研究科, 教授 (50215331)
Research Collaborator	INOUCHI Naoki 名城大学, 経済学部, 教授 (60269785) TAKAHASHI Shinji 大阪経済法科大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (90613307)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	都市型産業集積 / 中小企業 / 零細性 / 企業規模階層 / 中規模企業
Research Abstract	The study will elucidate the shrinkage of urban-typed manufacturing agglomeration, like in Ota-ward Tokyo, at this stage. Main focus is on the decreasing number of small plants since 2000, that might alter the petty character of the agglomeration as a whole so far. We extract the faster decline of the upper most next to the bottom, analyzing the changing composition of firm-size classes from METI 'Census of Manufactures'.

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