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Fig. 21
Members
of
the
Kitakyushu
smart
community
council.
Source
challenge25.go.jp
(2011. 9. 30)
facilities up. Rather it can be said as a specific place that innovative ethos to create
new knowledge carrying industrial or economic value is blown up through various
interactions under the science initiative. From this point of view, networking on
the context of building STP's ecosystem can be said as a work to change indi-
vidual and separate actions of STP citizenry into interactions among them and
make an innovative community that occupies space of STP and changes it into the
locus of innovation. For that reason, it is argued that networking is the crucial
factor to complete building STP's ecosystem as such.
In the Kitakyushu approach, networking is the essence of building STP's
ecosystem from the planning stage. First of all, the plan put emphasis on net-
working of academia for the knowledge creation based on competitive cooperation
that is expected as the mainspring of making a new industrial city that the plan
aimed. To make and activate networking of academia, many kinds of motives are
given to universities and research institutes in the KSRP: joint research, credit
transfer system, exchange of faculty, co-hosting of congress, university extension,
and campus management committee that composed of the representative of the
member HEIs. And then, STP as a common physical environment of its mem-
bers plays the role of catalyst to precipitate the networking through some common-
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