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Table 6 Facilities for research of public-service corporations in Tsukuba
Classification
Facilities
Public-Service
Corporation (12)
ZEN-NOH Central Research Institute for Feed and Livestock
Civil Engineering Research Laboratory
Foundation for Advancement of International Science
Tsukuba Research Institute of Ocean Policy Research Foundation
Technical Laboratory of Public Works Research Center
Laboratory for Fuudo Technology of Public Works Research Center
Nippon Agriculture Research Institute
Japan Automobile Research Institute
Tsukuba Building Test Laboratory of Center for Better Living
Technology Development Center of Japan Pressure Welding Society
Institute of Society for Techno-innovation of Agriculture, Forestry
and Fisheries
The Corporation for Production and Research of Laboratory
Primates
Source Author based on the website of MLIT (
http://www.mlit.go.jp
)
Table 7
Features of five major cities on number of employees in research institutes
Rank
City
Research institute
No. of employees per
institute (A)
No. of total employees
in the City (B)
A/B
No. of
institutes
No. of
employees
1.
Tokyo
653
30,310
46
7,134,000
0.42
2.
Kawasaki
61
23,603
387
499,000
4.73
3.
Tsukuba
140
15,912
114
88,000
18.08
4.
Yokohama
124
11,158
90
1,347,000
0.83
5.
Atsuki
24
10,596
442
142,000
7.46
Source Cha
2004
, p. 101
such as the Super Techno Zone Concept (1996) by MITI and the Regional Plat-
form Project (1999) by METI (Fig.
4
).
Since the 2000s, however, the situation has begun to change with the start of
two cluster projects: the Industrial Cluster Project from 2001 by METI and the
Knowledge Cluster Initiative from 2002 by MEXT.
6
The Industrial Cluster Project is a program in which regional SMEs and start-up
companies utilize innovative research results or seeds obtained at universities and
research institutes to form industrial clusters, in fields such as IT, BT, environ-
ment, and manufacturing. The goal of this project is strengthening the competi-
tiveness of the Japanese industry. To strengthen the global competitiveness of the
Japanese industry and to invigorate Japan's local economies, this project carries
out the missions stated below with the objective of businesses, universities, and
other
institutions,
in
regions
throughout
Japan,
forming
wide-area
networks
6
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
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