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| The different projects around the country are engaged in many different activities, producing many different achievements. Here, we introduce some of the typical activities and achievements. |
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| Inter-cluster tie-ups | Hokkaido Biotech Industry Growth Strategy, Kansai Bio Cluster Project |
Business matching between bioclusters in Hokkaido and the Kansai Region
Enabling business talks with Mager pharmaceutical companies via inter-cluster coordination |
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| To better promote interchange between bio businesses in Hokkaido and the Kansai Region, business matching events have been held since FY 2003 in partnership with the Kansai cluster and other related organizations. The Shikoku cluster was also brought in beginning in FY 2007. The events were more closely targeted in FY 2008 on medical and pharmaceutical groups, and were held in Kobe and Osaka. These include pre-event business talk preparation, allowing attendees to better grasp participating companies’ needs and refine their own business talk strategies prior to the events themselves for more effective matching.
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There have been around 60 successful business talks since FY 2003, resulting in around two billion yen in orders.
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Hisato Doi
Cluster Manager, Hokkaido BIO Technology Industrial Cluster Forum
CEO and President, Human Capital Management Inc.
Leveraging the networks built up so far by the Hokkaido and Kansai Region clusters provides SMEs the chance to talk directly with large pharmaceutical companies that are usually difficult to contact. Based on the profile sheets that describe participating companies’ business models and technological setup, our offices can arrange detailed business talks for more productive and effective meetings. |
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Organization:
Hokkaido BIO Technology Industrial Cluster Forum
Northern Advancement Center for Science and Technology
TEL : +81-11-708-6392
URL:http://www.noastec.jp/biocluster/cgi-bin/index.cgi |
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| Inter-cluster tie-ups | Support Activities for Networks in Western Tokyo Metropolitan Area (TAMA), Project to Create Manufacturing Industry in Hokuriku Region, Shikoku Techno Bridge Plan |
TAMA Collaboration Square (TCS): Hokuriku and Shikoku Region companies participating in technology exchanges
- Promoting corporate interchange via inter-cluster tie-ups |
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| The TAMA Collaboration Square (TCS) project provides a place for product and technology exchanges between the research divisions of large corporations and SMEs with advanced technological and developmental capabilities. The TAMA coordinators condense the strengths (core technologies) of the SMEs into a one-page product and technology PR report. Based on this report, they help foster technological tie-ups with large corporations by leveraging the TAMA Association networks and projects.
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There have been three technological exchanges held to date. The third one, held in October 2008, was attended by 21 large corporations and 93 SMEs and included 167 business talks. Moreover, this latest exchange saw participation by groups from outside the region for the first time, including the Project to Create Manufacturing Industry in Hokuriku Region and companies participating in the Shikoku Techno Bridge Plan.
A number of machinery makers came in from Hokuriku that are interested in cutting-edge technology development, and these are continuing technological partnership talks with large companies and TAMA-area SMEs. Meanwhile, four paper-related companies came from Shikoku, and these are starting technological exchanges in the field of intelligent paper.
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Hideto Okazaki
Secretary-General, TAMA Industrial Vitalization Association Inc.
Even though SMEs have advanced processing technology and development capabilities, they cannot realize their true potential if they cannot bring a finished product to market. The TAMA Association fosters partnerships between the large companies that have a clearer view of future market needs and the SMEs in various areas that have advanced technological and product development capabilities, providing a place for innovation and the creation of new value. We are also actively partnering with cluster companies from other regions. |
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Organization: :
TAMA Industrial Vitalization Association Inc.
TEL : +81-42-631-1140
URL:http://www.tamaweb.or.jp/ |
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| International tie-ups | Support Activities for Networks along the Chuo Expressway |
DTF* Research Consortium signs MOU with Swiss university
Fostering international tie-ups based in Switzerland, expanding sales networks into the EU market |
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The DTF Research Consortium is composed mainly of companies in the Suwa Region, and has been working to foster exchanges with overseas universities and companies. The Consortium recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a university in Switzerland as part of a more formal organizational tie-up, and in the aim of building joint research and sales networks with overseas organizations from a base in Switzerland.
* DTF is an acronym for "Desktop Factory," meaning the manufacturing of small parts and products with small manufacturing equipment. (This allows for the small-scale production of many different types of products while saving energy, space, and expense)
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There have been five events to date, including forums held in Japan inviting overseas organizations, and missions sent to Switzerland and elsewhere (research and corporate exchanges, overseas exhibitions). In addition to the European Commission Directorate-General for Research, the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, and the Tampere University of Technology in Finland, the Consortium is expanding its tie-ups to include local corporations in France and other countries.
There have been more than 100 technological exchanges and business talks. Some precision machinery has been developed through collaboration with overseas laser technology companies, and there have also been some types of desktop factory equipment for which sales are growing even in the recent economic environment.
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Toshio Imai
Cluster Manager, Nagano Techno Foundation
Director General, Suwa Techno Lakeside Regional Center
In this day and age, even regional SMEs are being challenged to grow overseas. As an industrial cluster support organization, we support these companies, and are working to build up industry-university-government collaboration both in Japan and abroad.
Our Consortium is leveraging the sizable concentration of precision machinery in our region to make new manufacturing proposals on a global scale. We invite anyone interested in our activities to contact us, regardless of where they may be located. |
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Organization:
Suwa Techno Lakeside Regional Center, Nagano Techno Foundation
TEL : +81-266-53-6000 (Internal line: 2663)
URL:http://www.tech.or.jp/ (DTF Research Consortium)http://www.dtf.ne.jp/ |
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| International tie-ups | Kyushu Recycle and Environmental Industry Plaza (K-RIP) |
K-RIP focus on East Asian markets
Promoting business exchange with China and South Korea |
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| The Kyushu Recycle and Environmental Industry Plaza (K-RIP) initiative has been promoting business exchanges with South Korea since 2005 and with China since 2007. K-RIP is signing MOUs with local public organizations (with Dalian City in China in February 2009, and with the Korea Industrial Complex Corporation (KICOX) Eco Office in November 2007) and supporting SME eco-business growth in developing Asian markets.
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K-RIP has surveyed Kyushu, Chinese, and Korean business needs, and while keeping a close eye on possibilities for mutually advantageous matchings, has dispatched or hosted a total of six different business missions.
Five companies have signed business contracts, some going so far as to establish local offices and corporations, and four more companies are currently in contract negotiations.
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Makoto Iizuka
K-RIP Cluster Manager
The overseas growth of SMEs can be impeded by language and cultural barriers, making it very difficult for any single SME to do it all alone. K-RIP supports the overseas growth of SMEs in multiple different ways, including forming partnerships with local public groups and fosters exchanges with highly reliable local companies, financial support from its own funds for feasibility studies on business expansion into the rest of Asia, and exchanges with exchange students. |
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Organization:
Kyushu Recycle and Environmental Industry Plaza (K-RIP)
TEL : +81-92-474-0042
URL:http://www.k-rip.gr.jp/ |
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