A Multi-Industrial Linkages Approach to Cluster Building in East Asia ISBN: 9781137571281 Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan UK Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited Subjects: Economics and Finance;
This book proposes measures to promote regional industrial development in East Asia from the perspective of three industries: agriculture, food, and tourism. The authors argue that for regional agriculture to develop, collaboration with the food industry is essential. Further, by linking tourism, economic collaboration between the three industries is strengthened. The first part of the book introduces a basic model for the formation of the agriculture, food, and tourism industry cluster. Contributions from leading academics in agricultural economics then go on to discuss the relevance of this multi-industry cluster in countries such as Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Cambodia, amongst others. The final part sets out new approaches for further development in the cluster through quantitative analyses of the 'economies of sequence' concept. Readers will discover that from establishing linkages between different industries and other economic sectors, important positive externalities canbe generated and these processes can be triggered on the local or cluster level.
Akifumi Kuchiki is a professor at the College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Japan, and was Executive Vice President of the Japan External Trade Organization. He is co-editor of Industrial Clusters in Asia (2005), The Flowchart Approach to Industrial Cluster Policy (2008), From Agglomeration to Innovation (2010), and Industrial Clusters, Upgrading and Innovation in East Asia (2011). Tetsuo Mizobe is an associate professor at the College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Japan. He worked in consultancy between 1980 and 2010 on development issues, during which time he became a leader of rural and agricultural development projects. Toshitaka Gokan is a research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO). His research focuses on the spatial distribution of economic activities such as new economic geography.
