THE IDENTIFICATION OF A INDUSTRY TO BE LOCATED IN A REGION BASED ON THE INPUT-OUTPUT STRUCTURE

Abstract

High-technology based industries, such as electronics and bio-technology industries have been spreading over whole in Japan. They face to the conflict problems with traditional industries in term of competitive employment. This paper discusses the industry which doesn't compete with a traditional industry but supplement each other through the network of transaction of goods. These kind of industries might be more suitable to be located in a region. For the identification of such a industry, the weak type of Industrial Complex Analysis is employed together with the structuring technique of industrial groups using the elements of Input-Output Tables. It was found that the analytical method proposed in the paper is effective to find an appropriate industry to be introduced in a region. The result is quite reasonable in a practical point of view and is significantly different from that of proposed by traditional methods.