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Fig. 12 Land-use plan for KSRP development. source The brochurse of the FAIS

institutes in the KSRP. 13 Only, although various actors in industry, academia, and
government had gathered, the KSRP is specialized for two technology fields:
environment and information which are the most useful technology fields in terms
of the purpose of the KSRP development because the Kitakyushu Industrial Area
is still one of the biggest industrial agglomerations of environment and semi-
conductor businesses in Western Japan.
The KSRP was developed as an innovative milieu which promotes creation of
new knowledge, technology, and value in such specialized fields. It is paid
attention that the creation of the environment where the competition coexists with
cooperation has been put from the policymaking stage on the mind, and the
environment for ''race'' with competitive cooperation has been formed from the
intercollegiate relations among the universities in the specialized fields. It seems
the clearest feature of the innovative milieu in the KSRP.

13 For instance, the Kyushu Laboratory of Advanced Research Institute for Science and
Engineering, Waseda University aims at the academia-industry collaboration while doing a wide
approach from basic theory to practical business research as a Kyushu hub of the research
institute with the tradition to have contributed to the development of science, technology and
industry of Japan in the field of environment, construction, telecommunication, system LSI, and
robotics, etc. And, the Cranfield University at Kitakyushu has been trying to research jointly by
industry-university cooperation in the field of the aeronautical engineering as a foreign research
institute. Moreover, the Fukuoka Research Center for Recycling Systems has tried to match a
recycling technology with the social system for the development of resource recycling society.