Toward a New Paradigm of the Long-Term Development of Industrial Districts

Tetsushi Sonobe, Keijiro Otsuka () and Tomoko Hashino

Chapter Chapter 2 in Industrial Districts in History and the Developing World, 2016, pp 13-21 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract While the model of long-term development of industrial districts proposed by Sonobe and Otsuka (Cluster-based industrial development: an East Asian model. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2006; Cluster-based industrial development: a comparative study of Asia and Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2011) is useful for understanding the economic forces that lead to the formation of an industrial district, the low and declining profitability of continuing production of low-quality products and the inducement to innovation for quality improvement by innovative entrepreneurs, it is not sufficient to explain the diverse development paths of industrial districts throughout history and across the developing world. This chapter attempts to extend and elaborate the Sonobe-Otsuka model in the light of a variety of empirical findings reported in various chapters in this volume. A new comprehensive model, which may be termed the SOH (Sonobe-Otsuka-Hashino) model, takes into account the roles of technology transfer, producer cooperatives or trade associations, and governments in transforming “survival” clusters into “dynamic” ones by facilitating and sustaining “multi-faceted” innovations.

Keywords: Quality crisis; Technology transfer; Trade association; Role of government; Sonobe-Otsuka model; SOH model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-0182-6_2

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