Food Industry Cluster Research Articles

Северный Кавказ: экономическая динамика первой четверти XXI в. (общероссийские тренды и региональная специфика)

The article examines the main trends in the economic dynamics of the North Caucasus macroregion of the Russian Federation in the first quarter of the 21st century. It is concluded that all the strategies for its socio-economic development implemented at this time had low effectiveness (most of the goals and key parameters recorded in them were not achieved), which, however, did not prevent the North Caucasus from demonstrating gg. fairly high rates of economic growth, mainly focusing on the development of a number of agricultural production sectors and associated light and food industry clusters. Since the mid-2010s. The recreational and tourism complex is becoming a noticeable driver of growth in all North Caucasian regions. Developing in line with all-Russian socio-economic trends (the process of metropolisation; the accelerated growth of the service economy and the service sector, the construction sector), the republics of the North Caucasus refracted them to their own demographic, settlement, economic, cultural, ethnosocial specifics, which was expressed in the sustainable preservation of a vast shadow sector , widespread small-scale commodity production in republican societies, high employment of the population in personal plots and in informal segments of the economy, and orientation of producers towards public investment. In 2022–2023 (the period of a special military operation), industry, agriculture, and the construction sector of most regions of the North Caucasus demonstrate growth rates that exceed all-Russian indicators - evidence of a fairly successful adaptation of the economy of the macroregion to new operating conditions.

베트남 메콩델타 지역 농산물 물류센터 추진전략에 관한 연구

Can Tho City, the fifth largest city in Vietnam and located at the hub of the Mekong Delta region, is located 160km west of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam, and the southern part of the Hasu River, the first tributary of the Mekong River. The area is 1,439 ㎢, and the climate is hot and humid and the topography is flat, making it an environment suitable for agricultural and marine product production. Agricultural products, a major item of Vietnam's primary industry, are a major handling item in the Mekong Delta region, including Can Tho City. In order to determine the direction for the development of logistics development in the Mekong Delta region and Can Tho City, field surveys and detailed data surveys, consultations with related organizations such as Can Tho City, and development experiences and opinions of Korean companies that have entered Vietnam were listened to. As a result, building an Agricultural Products Processing Center (APC) was identified as a priority. As a result of the AHP analysis, in the major categories, ‘securing infrastructure’ was rated as 0.642, which was evaluated as overwhelmingly more important than other items. Next, ‘preparation of government support policy’ was 0.188, and ‘establishment of smart logistics operating system’ was 0.170. In the sub-category of securing major category infrastructure, 'transport network connected to logistics center' was evaluated as 0.383, the most important item, followed by 'storage facility' (0.241), 'gathering and delivery facility' (0.233), and 'support facility' (0.143). Subsequently, based on the results of the AHP survey, this study presented the development strategies for the agricultural logistics center in Can Tho City by dividing it into short-term, mid-term, and long-term. In the short term, it was proposed to focus on building logistics center infrastructure and linked transportation infrastructure, and in the mid term, an efficient system operation plan for agricultural logistics center was suggested. In the long term, support policies for companies using agricultural logistics center and the establishment of food industry clusters in the hinterland were proposed. This study presents a strategy for promoting an agricultural logistics center in Can Tho City, the central city of the Mekong Delta region. It is expected that it will be used as a reference material.

Correction to: Impact of changes in the labor force and innovative agro-based food industry clusters on primary and food–beverage industries, and regional economies in Japan’s depopulating society

Correction to: Impact of changes in the labor force and innovative agro-based food industry clusters on primary and food–beverage industries, and regional economies in Japan’s depopulating society

Impact of changes in the labor force and innovative agro-based food industry clusters on primary and food–beverage industries, and regional economies in Japan’s depopulating society

Impact of changes in the labor force and innovative agro-based food industry clusters on primary and food–beverage industries, and regional economies in Japan’s depopulating society

Improvement of Food Industry Management in the Baikal Region

The relevance of the study is based on the importance of improving the management system for the effective development of the food industry in the Baikal region and agricultural production and the inability of the region to realize its potential in this area. The main research hypothesis of this study is that the development and implementation of a food industry cluster on the territory of the Baikal region, the stability and predictability of the external macroenvironment will have a positive effect on the food industry and will create preconditions for its future development. The purpose of the research is to study, identify, analyze and evaluate the characteristics and main aspects of the food industry in the Baikal region, on the basis of which it will be possible to identify advantageous management methods for the possibility of improving activities in this industry, allowing us to develop its potential. A SWOT analysis of the food industry in the Baikal region is presented, it is substantiated that the formation of integration and intersectoral relationships between food industry enterprises within the cluster will solve many problems.

Spatial Agglomerations in the Spanish Food Industry: Does Sectorial Disaggregation Matter?

The food industry is the most important industrial activity in Spain in terms of production and employment; its spatial concentration is considerable. However, there is a lack of quantitative research on its agglomerations, especially at high levels of spatial and sectorial disaggregation. With the study presented, this deficit is addressed, using systematic and quantitative methods to examine the spatial agglomeration in the subsectors that the food industry is specialized. Spanish food industry clusters have been identified by applying a top-down quantitative methodological approach—the cluster index—and following a high level of territorial and sectorial disaggregation. Clusters were identified at the three- and four-digit sectorial disaggregation. The number of four-digit-level relevant clusters was higher than three-digit disaggregation. This evidence was verified using nonparametric statistical tests (Wilcoxon signed-rank test). Furthermore, the analysis of four significant three-digit subsectors allows us to advance two alternative explanations for the divergent results at the different levels of the analysis (three digits vs. four digits). This partly explains the potential competitiveness of Spain in the food industry and shows the possibility of establishing policies for the development of clusters.

Analysis of enterprise relationships in food industry cluster based on niche theory

Analysis of enterprise relationships in food industry cluster based on niche theory

Analysis of Food Industry Cluster and Value-chain Network in the Northern Area of the Korean Peninsula

Analysis of Food Industry Cluster and Value-chain Network in the Northern Area of the Korean Peninsula

Impacts of industry clusters with innovation on the regional economy in Japanese depopulating society after the Great East Japan Earthquake

In this paper, we will take the concepts of Porter’s (On competition. Harvard Business School Press, Cambridge, 1998, Econ Dev Q 14(1):15–34, 2000) clusters and present an analysis of the feasibility of economic development in Japanese disaster regions under rapid population decline, utilizing two new industry clusters with innovation. The two clusters used are the automobile industry cluster, which targets the entire disaster region and whereby innovation comes from coagglomeration with different industries in mega-regions, and the food industry cluster, which target individual disaster-struck prefectures, focusing on their leveraging of local resources. This paper applies the dynamic two-regional computable general equilibrium model. We construct scenarios for each of these two clusters, and evaluate each new industry cluster model’s economic effects on disaster regions. A simulation analysis for scenarios of these two new clusters with positive and higher productivity in the coagglomerated industries reveals the following two effects: (1) that economies of agglomeration attained from vertical and horizontal coagglomeration have the effect of boosting real GRP and productivity on the macro level when the two new industry clusters are formed jointly rather than individually, and (2) that they contribute to long-term sustained growth in disaster region economies, reducing the gap between their growth and that of other regional economies. This can be interpreted to mean that the usual policies adopted, such as subsidies and corporate tax cut policies, are unable to counteract economic stagnation that comes as a result of a sharp decline for population numbers in disaster regions; it offers a conclusion that the agglomeration externalities seen from improved productivity in the formation of the new food/automobile industry clusters can offer sustained economic development in disaster regions.

Research on the Regional Cooperation of Technological Innovation in Food Industry Cluster

This study analyzes the technological innovation in food industry cluster cooperation and the noncooperative game phenomenon between two regions and uses the tools of dynamic differential equations to ensure the realization of time consistency. This study solves the problem of optimal strategies of inter-regional cooperation by differential equations, achieves a reasonable distribution of income under the respective optimal trajectory and explains the cooperation between regional innovation in food industry cluster of food industry cluster from a new perspective, which is an effective way to promote inter-regional cooperation according to the required layout and style.

Regional Innovation System and Sustainable Competitiveness: Case Study on Food Processing SMEs in West Java and Lampung Provinces

The competitiveness of an industry, a region, and a nation is directly related to its innovation capacity which is resulting from an effective innovation system. National innovation system will only be effective if there is a good interaction and interdependency among industries, research institutions, education institution, and other supporting bodies such as financial institution, infrastructure, regulation etc. Former studies reveal that the innovation system in Indonesia has not functioned effectively [1]. In the absence of effective national innovation system, the regional government can take serious attempts to develop and strengthen its regional innovation system in order to enhance its regional competitiveness, especially in the era of regional autonomy. This paper is based on a research conducted by Center for Innovation LIPI in 2004. It briefly highlights some theoretical frameworks on regional innovation system especially in the food industry cluster and reviews the characteristics of food industry in West Java and Lampung Provinces using Michael Porter’s diamond model. The study reveals that there is a weak linkage amongst the elements of regional innovation system in the food industry, though the local government has made significant attempts to strengthen and improve the condition. However, it is identified that industry within the cluster has enjoyed some benefits though this is limited to trading efficiency (trade network) mostly due to geographical proximity; while knowledge spill over (knowledge network), the very core of the innovation system, within the cluster is still very insignificant. Finally it proposes some recommendation especially on the utilization of the existing supporting local actors to act as local facilitator especially to bridge the information gap amongst the elements of the innovation system.

New entrepreneurship policy and the encounter between policy implementers and entrepreneurs - a case study from Finland

Both the new regional policy and the new entrepreneurship policy aim to establish public–private partnerships to generate global competitiveness. Previous studies, however, have indicated that the relationship between public policy implementers and entrepreneurs is not trouble–free. This paper explores the construction of partnership, or co–agency, between local policy actors and entrepreneurs by analysing a case of Finnish food industry cluster promotion. The analysis demonstrates how co–agency can be achieved when both parties position themselves and each other as agents serving third party principals who share similar interests. However, the entrepreneurship policy implementation may also face novel relational challenges stemming from the objection of local communities and the denial of the partnerships' legitimisation.

Characteristic of Small Scale Food Industry Cluster in West Sumatera

Clusters of small-scale food industries have different characteristics with industrial cluster in general. These characteristics need to know to develop a plan for cluster development. This study was conducted to determine charasteristics clusters of small-scale food industry, especially in West Sumatra. For the analysis of the components of industrial and technological components that affect the development of small-scale food industry cluster in West Sumatra. All variables influence the level of industrial components and technology components were analyzed using the program 'Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS)'. The survey results revealed that the industrial component is influenced by the core industry (level of difficulty in capital gain and raw materials), the buyer (customer satisfaction), related industry (quality and continuity of supply of packaging) and institutional support (coaching on marketing and capitalization as well as guidance on the production of sanitary and food safety). Component technology is influenced by organoware (production management and marketing management) and humanware (innovation and trust among the members).

Evaluation in Component Technology Small Scale Food Industry Cluster in West Sumatera

The development of small-scale food industry cluster is influenced by the technology component. Because it required accurate information about the importance of existing technology components. This study aims to evaluate the technology components that are known several important factors that need to be improved so that clusters of small-scale food industries can thrive. This research using the program Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to determine the level of importance of each variable based on its value. The survey results revealed that each technology component has a value as follows: technoware component of the operation of the order is a factor (0.2889), quality of raw materials (0.2770), improvement of production efficiency (0.1894), the fulfillment of production capacity (0.1717), technology adoption (0.0489) and resource technologies (0.0242). Components of the order value is organoware environmental management factor (0.6267), marketing management (0.2797) and production management (0.0936). Components infoware order value is a factor of production records (0.6267), the promotion of products (0.2797) and documentation effort (0.0936). Humanware component order is the motivation factor (0.5022), the trust fellow members (0.1883), knowledge manager (0.1854), the management skills (0.0817) and innovation (0, 0425).

食料産業クラスターにおけるネットワーク形成

食料産業クラスターにおけるネットワーク形成

６次産業・農商工連携とフードチェーン

The following is a summary of this paper. From the viewpoint of the food system, an integrated approach which takes advantages of the characteristics of both the Food Industry Cluster and the farmer's complex business, as well as the integration of the supply chain and value chain where farm producers and consumers are connected, are required for effective regional invigoration. The farmer's complex business puts emphasis on strategies of integrating production, processing, and sales from an individual farm producer's standpoint, therefore it is essential to link up with the Food Industry Cluster in order to maximize regional income through promotions of job creation and effective use of regional resources. The Food Industry Cluster creates the cooperation among agriculture, the food industry, related industries, and industries in unrelated fields through a network which organically combines regional food materials, human resources, technologies, and other resources, and brings about technical transfer and innovation from food related enterprises outside the regions. Furthermore, there is a necessity for a platform to be formed by the public sector, thus a research institution or university may be best to play a key role as manager to formulate strategies for regional development and sustainability.

斎藤報告「６次産業・農商工連携とフードチェーン」に対するコメント

斎藤報告「６次産業・農商工連携とフードチェーン」に対するコメント

The Contribution of the Primary Processing Technique in the Food Industry Cluster

The Contribution of the Primary Processing Technique in the Food Industry Cluster

農商工連携をめぐる地域食料産業クラスターと農業の再編戦略

A large number of food industries concentrate in agricultural villages and regional cities, and food business there makes a significant contribution to both employment and economic growth in the region by its sales total. With the increasing globalization of agricultural market, in order to revitalize food industry and agriculture, it is essential for both of them to facilitate and deepen their cooperation at regional level by forming food industry cluster. Looking at the food industry cluster in view of the food system, the major challenges to the food industry cluster are to establish supply chain and value chain strategically, as well as to form vertically organized economic entities. The industrial cluster projects started by Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry in 2001 and the food industrial cluster projects introduced by Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishery in 2005 tend to play a role mostly in product development for enterprises in certain fields. Cooperation between food industry and agriculture can create mutually dependent relationship regarding management resources through transfer of technology, technical know-how, and information system, and by extension can trigger technical innovation. It will take time to reach the point where information sharing between both parties and their accumulated knowledge produce the learning effect.

The simulation model of evolving networks of corporations that enter into the formation of food industry cluster

The simulation model of evolving networks of corporations that enter into the formation of food industry cluster