英文摘要 |
In the past 20 years, the performance of regional industrial policy in Japan, made a dramatic turnaround from government-initiated to private-sector initiative especially after the introduction of the concept of industrial clusters. After the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, the special zone system promoted emerging industries, new businesses, and new facilities, becoming the most important policy tool for accelerating formation and development of regional industrial clusters. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect and policy formation process of the special zone system after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. The major finding of the analytical result is reconstruction strategy, especially since industrial cluster policy is designed to revitalize Hyogo and Kobe's industry and economy. Hyogo and Kobe endeavored in cooperation with industrial, academic and government organizations for the creation of research, production and distribution complexes on the Kobe Port Island for the advancement of strategic industries, like information and communications, medical industry, which are considered as growth strategic industries in 21st century. Enterprise zone and the Kobe biomedical innovation cluster are the most successful cases. |