A Multi-industrial Linkages Approach to Cluster Building in East Asia: Targeting the Agriculture, Food, and Tourism Industry

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.