医療機器産業形成におけるテンポラリークラスターの機能

―メディカルクリエーションふくしま（MCF）の事例に基づいて―

抄録

This paper is intended as an investigation of the functions of temporary cluster in the formation of medical equipment industry based on the case study of Medical Creation Fukushima (MCF). As a result of the analysis on MCF, the following six hypotheses were derived.

First, temporary cluster affect to the other forms of organization in the knowledge creation not only in the short term, but medium and long term by local buzz, global buzz and global pipeline. Secondly, the influence makes a change the synthetic knowledge of supply chain and project in inter-firm to the analytical knowledge base. Thirdly, the temporary cluster accelerates the innovation of the firms and actors to be heterogeneous aggregate. Fourthly, permanent cluster is induced to innovation by the interaction of temporary cluster, in addition to that, it makes a change the focus of knowledge creation on the stable inter-firm networks for long time. Fifthly, the local resources are important factor for the functions of temporary cluster to work effectively. Sixthly, the double temporary cluster that are mutual exhibit with overseas exhibitions promotes to build of trust between with cluster facilitators each other and to strengthen for the global pipeline.

Considering the above, Japan’s industrial cluster achievement can be regarded as a system to transform the existing industrial district into the new one that can be applied for the growth market by using the function of the temporary cluster.