Industrial Clusters in Asia

AKIFUMI KUCHIKI is Director-General at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organisation (IDE-JETRO), Japan. His previous publications include Catastrophe Expectations and the Importance of the Timing of Policy Implementation in Economics Papers and Silicon Valley in the South in the Brazilian Journal of Political Economy with Kagami. MASATSUGU TSUJI is Professor of Economics at Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, Japan. His previous publications include Private Initiatives in Infrastructure (with Berg

This book focuses on East Asia, which has been attracting FDI and a centre of industrial agglomeration, and because of this, the production structure in the world has been dynamically transforming.This book focuses on East Asia, which has been attracting FDI and a centre of industrial agglomeration, and because of this, the production structure in the world has been dynamically transforming. This book analyzes this world trend and provides a framework for strategy that is required not only for Japanese local governments to implement industrial cluster policy, but also for firms to survive the global competition.