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2. Using accumulated knowledge: fostering technological innovation centered on
universities and other public research institutions.
3. Technological innovation on a global level: accumulating people, things, and
money from other regions.
As part of policies to achieve their cluster vision, local governments, based on a
cluster vision for an individual region, are expected to implement the following in
concert with other measures (of their own or of other ministries and agencies):
1. Conducting joint research by industry, academia, and government.
• Conducting joint research by industry-academia-government at university
joint research centers or other institutions to produce new technology seeds in
light of corporate needs.
• Patenting research results and conducting R&D relating to incubation.
2. Using projects by local governments, related ministries, etc.
• Fully implementing projects, from R&D to commercialization, and using
R&D systems controlled by related agencies and ministries like METI.
3. Other
• Setting up a Knowledge Cluster Headquarters in each region as a control
center for project implementation (staffed by a President, Project Director,
Chief Scientist, and others).
• Assigning science and technology coordinators (experts), with emphasis on
expertise, and using advisors like patent attorneys.
• Holding forums and other meetings to announce and discuss research results.
These are achieved by research organizations, R&D-oriented companies and
other participants, working around a core of universities and public research
institutions that are centers of knowledge creation, and the Stress of the project is
placed on the autonomy of local governments
9
(Figs.
7
,
8
).
Collaboration between the Industrial Cluster Project initiated by METI and the
Knowledge Cluster Initiative promoted by MEXT has been further promoted
(Example: Establishment of Regional Consortium Research and Development
Project, Interministerial Collaboration Framework). The Regional Cluster Pro-
motion Council has been established jointly with METI and MEXT, and Joint
Achievement Announcement Meetings have been held in each region. Through
this, policies of both ministries have been mutually complementary, e.g., the seed
generation achievements of MEXT policies have been applied and commercialized
by METI, and conversely, feedback of market needs has led to R&D of new
seeds
10
(Fig.
9
).
9
Ibid, pp. 184-187.
10
Ibid. pp. 188-189.
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