A Consideration for Making Local Companies a Lot of Engineer

Abstract

　　Many regions have problems with declining birth rate and an aging population.　In Hokkaido the area of this study, low birthrate and aging are creating a population decline that is progressing at a speed higher than the national average.　Particularly, there are few manufacturing industries in Hokkaido, so the actual situation is that many men move to the metropolitan area to find work.

　　An important element of the revitalization of regional economies is “people”.　In order to develop a regional economy on a continuous basis, encouraging new graduates to find jobs in local companies and promoting career shifts to local companies through U-turns and I-turns are essential.　However, there is no effective method for the present situation.　Here, a U turn is when a person working in the metropolitan area returns to his hometown to get a job, and I turn is when a person gets a job in a local area other than his own hometown.

　　In this study, based on the survey results of the Muroran Institute of Technology conducted as part of the COC+ project, we examined new ways to make engineers available to companies in Hokkaido.　In order to keep engineers in the region and recall them from the metropolitan areas, it is necessary to create an attractive region for engineers.　To that end, a large number of technology development projects need to be created in the region.　In this paper, we propose a system to operate a large number of technology development projects in the Hokkaido region.

JEL Classifications: O15, J21, R23