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Takeshi SUGIYAMA
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In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to the industrial agglomerations. Many studies have been debated on the mechanism which has contributed to the emergence of innovations in local areas, considering "collective learning" and "cognition" as the central concepts. These studies are of value in that they provide the analytical tools and deepen our understanding of the regional innovation at a theoretical level. However, they are not concerned with empirical aspects. Therefore, we have to take a closer look at the concepts, that is, "collective learning" and "cognition", for the comprehensive grasp of our research. In this regard, this paper explores the conditions of a collective learning process towards realization of innovations, through the empirical evidence of "Forum-I (FI)"-a grope of SMEs in different genres of industries ("igyoshu-koryu-kai"). In order to describe the processes analytically, this study stress the role of "literacy capability" which permits actors to interpret the diverse information and provides the common basis for the collective learning. By examining the case of FI, the following two insights become clear. First, at the beginning of the activities, the innovation was not observed, though the common knowledge and the regional identity were growing in among members. Second, FI was gained the "literacy capability" by sharing the experiences in observing the reality of worlds and interpreting them. As a result, FI could break through toward innovations. The reason why they could do so seems to be that they could transform reflexively the regional identity and adopted it to their situations based on these experiences. In conclusion, this paper shows the following implications toward industrial agglomeration studies. Although a number of relevant studies assert that common knowledge can set up collective learning basis ("innovative milieu") as a cognitive framework, this research highlight the importance of the common knowledge shared through the collective experience. In addition, this paper point out that a series of innovations require not only the acquisition of regional identity but also the reinterrogation and the reconstruction of its meaning.
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Tetsu KAWAKAMI, Eri YAMADA, Hiroshi KASHIMA
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This paper addresses the issue of what factors can explain the differences in the patterns of regional growth in Mie prefecture, Japan, during the period 1975-2005. The extended shift-share regression model is applied to decompose regional growth into the following four factors: i) the national effect, ii) the industry-mix effect, iii) the regional differential effect, and iv) the regional agglomeration effect. Compared with the standard identity based shift-share method, this model is at an advantage in terms of allowing statistical tests of significance for the decomposed effects. The decomposition uncovers the heterogeneity and similarity of growth patterns at a smaller spatial unit of regional aggregation and gives more informative insights into local industrial policies. The empirical results based on the municipality-level regional data on the number of employees by industry are as follows. First, until the mid-1990s, local policies to attract industries following the global or national trends worked well in the northern and central parts of Mie. A number of manufacturing industries were attracted by better comparative advantages such as the location environment, social capital, and industrial agglomeration. However, the policies did not be effective in the southern part of Mie because of their locations far away from the metropolitan areas and insufficient production circumstances. As a consequence, the interregional disparities in terms of per capita income have widened. Second, in recent years the explanatory power of the industry-mix effect for regional growth is substantial in relation to the other growth effects. This reflects the national trend of job loss in manufacturing and the associated sectors. The urban areas that had enjoyed high growth by expanding the share of manufacturing employment are faced with the difficulties in their growth structure. Third, the regional differential and agglomeration effects tend to spill over into the neighboring municipalities. This evidence implies that self-sustained, endogenous, and continuous local economic development may be achieved more effectively by formulating and implementing local industrial policies on the basis of appropriate spatial units with similar growth patterns.
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