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Table 9 Industrial decline of Kitakyushu area
Classification
No. of companies
No. of employees
1965
1975
1985
1995
2002
1865
1975
1985
1995
2002
Total
2,075
2,819
2,689
2,502
1,327
129,605
119,270
89,140
75,932
53,067
Food
674
595
470
373
211
10,632
8,990
6,032
6,519
5,323
Lumber,
Furniture
and pulp
340
419
369
277
111
8,431
6,926
4,096
3,369
1,377
Publication and
Presswork
144
241
281
278
116
5,954
6,667
7,346
6,538
3,171
Chemistry
51
49
42
51
38
11,234
9,262
6,343
5,725
3,343
Oil and Coal
14
16
16
18
17
829
1,031
538
425
410
Ceramics and
Earth and
Rock
101
140
113
106
76
9,921
8,122
5,449
7,319
6,731
Steel
67
89
109
97
65
47,249
32,219
22,004
11,958
7,666
Metal
178
367
350
346
206
12,698
7,932
7,048
8,475
6,288
Machinery
319
540
516
512
283
18,922
31,972
24,103
19,444
11,110
Etc.
187
363
423
444
204
3,735
6,149,
6,181
6,160
7,557
Source The City of Kitakyushu (2003)
It goes without saying that the collaboration between academia and industry is
very important for high technology development. Unfortunately, however, it is
hard to say that Kitakyushu City as a typical industrial city already had enough
foundation for collaboration although there are many good high education insti-
tutes (HEIs) such as the Kyushu Institute of Technology in the city. In the master
plan, therefore, it was emphasized that the KSRP aims to create new industries and
further development of technology by promoting collaboration between academia
and industry there.
The conceptual framework of academia-industry collaboration in the KSRP is
shown on the Scheme on New University of Kitakyushu. It is to make an active
and advanced environment for research and education, gather HEIs which are
national, municipal, and private ones with science or engineering faculties into one
campus, and encourage competitive collaboration between academia and industry
within and outside the campus through various joint researches. It was the first
attempt ever made in Japan to develop a high-level education and research envi-
ronment by gathering several HEIs, which have very different academic traditions
from one another, into one campus (Fig.
11
).
To realize the scheme, the KSRP has been developing with the idea of multi-
perspective town development taking advantage of the surrounding nature and
urban environment, which provides a favorable residential environment and the
accumulation of education and research institutions related to leading-edge science
and technology. The KSRP, which is developed on the site of about 335 ha in the
northwestern part of Yahatanishi Ward, has a population of 12,000 and 4,000
households in the plan. The site was developed by the land readjustment project,
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