Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to build the industrial complexes for machinery manufacturing and identify their location orientation with the final aim of selectiong optimal industrial complexes for regional development.
Firstly, the attraction model, which is introduced by L. H. Klaassen, is applied to the data of machinery manufacturing industry in Japan to analyse an interindustry relationship and its location. The attraction model establishes a relationship between the gross output of an industry and its demand/supply. The coefficients of this relationship specify the location tendency of an indutry, which is market-oriented, footloose or supply-oriented.
Secondly, the industrial complexes of machinery manufacturing, one of which is consisted of a core sector of industry and plural component sectors, are built up and classified into six categories from the view point of productive and location factors.
