Construction of a Strategic Development Model of the Agriculture- Food-Culture Industry Cluster in ODA

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24402022
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Nihon University
• Principal Investigator: KUCHIKI Akifumi 日本大学, 生物資源科学部, 教授 (10450446)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ITO Shoichi 九州大学, 農学研究家, 教授 (30222425) ; MIZOBE Tetsuo 日本大学, 生物資源科学部, 准教授 (50592622) ; KIKUCHI Ko 日本大学, 生物資源科学部, 准教授 (30325831) ; NAKAMURA Tetsuya 共栄大学, 国際経営学部, 准教授 (80364876) ; YAMASHITA Teppei 日本大学, 生物資源科学部, 助教 (30432727)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: バリューチェーン / 農・食・観光クラスター / 階層性ヒエラルキー / シークエンスの経済 / 発生生物学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our study applied a concept of ‘levels of organization’ hierarchy on ‘time axis’ along gene, organ, organism, organization, population, community, and ecosystem in ecological biology to the process in the formation of segments of the agriculture food tourism industry cluster in East Asia. The segments of an industrial cluster are capacity building such as physical infrastructure. First, there exist the ordering of forming segments along time horizon at ‘community level’ of levels of organization under the ecosystem level. Second, ‘the economies of sequence’ is defined as the sequence of efficiently forming the segments of an industrial cluster to minimize formation costs. Third, leader as master switch of the first order of the segments is crucial to the success in efficiently forming the cluster without the stop of the processes due to huge costs. We showed the cases of the economies of sequence in East Asian development.

Free Research Field

国際経済学