Study of Industrial Cluster Formation of Regional Companies in the Northern Region

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330112
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Business administration
• Research Institution: Otaru University of Commerce
• Principal Investigator: ODA FUKUO 小樽商科大学, 商学部, 客員研究員 (80125377)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KATO KEITA 小樽商科大学, 商学部, 准教授 (10581861) ; OTOMASA SAKICHI 小樽商科大学, 商学部, 教授 (20379514) ; NISHIMOTO AKIHIRO 小樽商科大学, 商学部, 准教授 (10613185)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 企業家活動 / 地域オープン・イノベーション / 地域ブランド・マネジメント / 地域間国際交流

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We investigated the formation of industrial clusters of Hokkaido regional companies, activation by linkage with the Far East Russia, and the current situation and measures of regional brand strengthening.
As a result, the following findings were obtained. (1) The unique importance of entrepreneurial activity and regional open innovation in the formation of industrial clusters. (2) Heterogeneity of new customers and repeat customers in the region brand management, the importance of applying a different approach in each. (3) Severity of the current state of the Russian Far East and importance of a long-term perspective in relation to inter-regional international business of the residential building materials between Hokkaido and Russian Far East.

Free Research Field

経営学