Abstract
This paper proposes the concept of Cooperative Innovation, a process of making a better society with the citizens' power, and discusses how citizen participation influences the result in a public-private partnership project. As an empirical study, we have analyzed the evaluation data of the Kyoto city policy projects, pointed out the issues, and found the best way of how the citizens should participate. First, we have classified the projects into three categories, according to the importance level of the policies. Then, we have applied quantitative analysis to the data on the Kyoto city policy projects, and analyzed the interrelation among the indices, etc. We have concluded the following results: 1. The citizens' satisfaction is useful as an evaluation index; 2. Citizens' participation should be encouraged, in particular, on an operational phase; and 3. the degree of public-private participation should adjust to the importance level of a project.
