A Multi-Industrial Linkages Approach to Cluster Building in East Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Basic Concept and Summary

      • Akifumi Kuchiki, Tetsuo Mizobe

      Pages 3-29

3. Fact Findings: Experiences of the Agriculture, Food, and Tourism Industry Clusters

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. Agriculture-Food-Tourism Industry Clusters in China

      • Ke Ding

      Pages 33-53

   3. The Agriculture-Food-Tourism Industry Cluster in the Republic of Korea: The Formation and Growth Factors of Clusters in Regional Agriculture

      • Youkyung Lee

      Pages 55-71

   4. The Agriculture-Food-Tourism Industry Cluster in Japan: Case Studies of Tourism Industry Clustering in Okinawa and Aichi

      • Teppei Yamashita

      Pages 73-90

   5. The Agriculture-Food-Tourism Industry Cluster in Okinawa, Japan: The Key Role of an Airport in Clustering

      • Koh Kikuchi

      Pages 91-116

   6. Tourism Development in Cambodia: An Analysis of Factors in the Creation of Local Specialties

      • Teppei Yamashita

      Pages 117-132

   7. The Collocation of Industries in Agriculture-Food-Tourism in Vietnam

      • Toshitaka Gokan

      Pages 133-159

4. New Approaches for Further Development of Cluster Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. An Application of the Levels of Organization in Biology to Process Formation in an Industrial Cluster: The Economies of Sequence

      • Akifumi Kuchiki, Tetsuo Mizobe

      Pages 163-185

   3. Railway-Led Formation of the Agriculture-Food-Tourism Industry Cluster: Escaping the Middle-Income Trap

      • Akifumi Kuchiki, Toshitaka Gokan, Toyojiro Maruya

      Pages 187-205

   4. Quantitative Analyses of the Economies of Sequence: The Impact of New Airport Construction on Tourism Industry Growth—A Case Study of Hong Kong and Singapore

      • Zhixin Chen, Koh Kikuchi, Yuki Yano, Tetsuya Nakamura, Akifumi Kuchiki

      Pages 207-224

   5. An Application of the Flowchart Approach to the Agro-Food-Processing Industry Cluster in East Asia: The Case of the Nacala Corridor Region in Mozambique

      • Akifumi Kuchiki, Tetsuo Mizobe

      Pages 225-244

   6. A Comparison of the Information Technology Industry Cluster with the Agro-Food Industry Cluster from the Perspective of the Economies of Sequence

      • Akifumi Kuchiki

      Pages 245-268

   7. Appendix: Introduction to an Application of Biology to the Formation of Segments in an Industrial Cluster

      • Akifumi Kuchiki

      Pages 269-282

5. Back Matter

   Pages 283-295

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This book proposes measures to promote regional industrial development in East Asia from the perspective of three industries: agriculture, food, and tourism. The authors argue that for regional agriculture to develop, collaboration with the food industry is essential. Further, by linking tourism, economic collaboration between the three industries is strengthened. The first part of the book introduces a basic model for the formation of the agriculture, food, and tourism industry cluster. Contributions from leading academics in agricultural economics then go on to discuss the relevance of this multi-industry cluster in countries such as Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Cambodia, amongst others. The final part sets out new approaches for further development in the cluster through quantitative analyses of the ‘economies of sequence’ concept. Readers will discover that from establishing linkages between different industries and other economic sectors, important positive externalities canbe generated and these processes can be triggered on the local or cluster level.

• East Asia
• Regional industrial development
• Agricultural economics
• Industry linkages
• Agriculture
• Food
• Tourism

• College of Bioresource Science, Nihon University, Kanagawa, Japan

  Akifumi Kuchiki

• College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Kanagawa, Japan

  Tetsuo Mizobe

• IDE-JETRO, Chiba, Japan

  Toshitaka Gokan

Akifumi Kuchiki is a professor at the College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Japan, and was Executive Vice President of the Japan External Trade Organization. He is co-editor of Industrial Clusters in Asia (2005), The Flowchart Approach to Industrial Cluster Policy (2008), From Agglomeration to Innovation (2010), and Industrial Clusters, Upgrading and Innovation in East Asia (2011).


Tetsuo Mizobe is an associate professor at the College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Japan. He worked in consultancy between 1980 and 2010 on development issues, during which time he became a leader of rural and agricultural development projects.


Toshitaka Gokan is a research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO). His research focuses on the spatial distribution of economic activities such as new economic geography.

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