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Fig. 20 Kitakyushu City's efforts toward a low-carbon society. Source http://www.

challenge25.go.jp (2011. 9. 30)

By the way, the implementation body of the project is the Kitakyushu Smart
Community Council which consists of 46 companies and organizations including
Nippon Steel Corp., the University of Kitakyushu, municipality, and the FAIS. It is
interesting that many of the KSRP's members such as the FAIS participate in the
council. While the council, as a local council for S&T promotion and triple helix
innovation, participates in planning and promoting all of the sub-projects for
building the Kitakyushu Smart Community, R&D activities in the KSRP will be
synchronized, synergized, and synthesized with this project toward green inno-
vation by the ''participants'' from the KSRP (Fig. 21 ).

4 Conclusion

4.1 Lessons

It is clear that STP is a spatial being: there is a scale of space that various buildings
or facilities related with R&D, practical education, and test production occasion-
ally are located. Therefore, it may be necessary to make a good physical envi-
ronment with charming design luring its constituents in the development of STP.
However, it is not just a physical environment for gathering such buildings or