Abstract
Local industries are crucial for enhancing urban competitiveness and are closely related to national economic performance. To sustainably develop local industries, a set of assessment indices should be formulated in addition to factors such as geographical environments, cultural history, development processes, and industrial structures for governments to promote development policies while satisfying the goal of sustainable industrial development. This study first adopted the fuzzy Delphi method to construct the indices for assessing local industrial development, referred to the action plans for the six key industries formulated by the Executive Yuan of Taiwan, and subsequently integrated the analytic hierarchy process and analytic network process to determine the order of priority for policies facilitating local industrial development for future reference. The results indicated that infrastructure, innovative research and development, and government policies are crucial bases for local industrial development. Furthermore, this study adopted Taoyuan to verify these indices and compiled expert suggestions to indicate that the government should prioritize the development of the biotechnology, green energy, and medical care industries. When developing local industries in the future, a set of assessment standards and policy analyses should be established for the government to enhance local industrial development and thus increase international competitive advantages by fully ascertaining the factors for industrial success and the characteristics of local advantages.
Highlights
The formation and development of local industries depend upon local social background, natural resource conditions, production, supply and demand, and overall commercial activities
Factors for assessing local industrial development were adopted to develop an expert questionnaire based on the fuzzy Delphi method (FDM)
After referring to the FDM calculations adopted by Jeng (2001) [29], this study used double triangular fuzzy numbers and conducted a gray zone test to determine the convergence of the assessment factors in order to understand if expert opinions on the factors tended to be consistent
Summary
The formation and development of local industries depend upon local social background, natural resource conditions, production, supply and demand, and overall commercial activities. Globalization, changes in industrial structure, and information technology development have forced local industries to restructure, upgrade, or transform themselves to improve their competitiveness in response to competition. The rise of local industries can boost local economic development and serve as an essential foundation for improving local residents’ employment rate and standard of living. Local economic development is the main source of a city’s competitiveness. The present study explored factors affecting local industrial development. The sustainable development of local industries requires the understanding and consideration of conditions such as geographical environments, developmental processes, and industrial structures, as well as available resources
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