Editors:
- Constructs a framework to clarify the mechanisms of development in agriculture and the rural economy, focusing on entrepreneurship and innovation
- Investigates and identifies key factors of human resource development in agriculture and the conditions needed for demonstrating entrepreneurship to create innovation
- Offers an update on various types of innovation in new businesses, start-ups, and diversification in the Japanese agricultural sector
Part of the book series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives (NFRSASIPER, volume 32)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This is the first book to comprehensively analyze key issues regarding innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource development in the Japanese agricultural sector. Despite the fact that innovation and entrepreneurship are vital to the development of modern Japanese agriculture, there have been comparatively few studies in this field; in addition, they have been virtually none on measures for developing entrepreneurial human resources or innovation in agriculture.
The agricultural sector’s declining competitiveness and sustainability as an industry in Japan are serious concerns, especially in combination with an aging labor force and decreasing farmland. To date, Japanese agricultural policies have largely concentrated on accumulating farmland and securing a sufficient agricultural labor force. However, from the perspectives of industrial and regional development, policies focusing on creating innovation, the driving force of economic development, have been recognized as being more effective. Moreover, there have been some recent developments concerning innovation and entrepreneurship in various regions of Japan.
This book provides a wealth of significant findings from studies on successful cases involving e.g. agricultural clusters, agriculture–commerce–industry collaborations, networking, franchising, and corporate entry-induced innovation utilizing limited regional resources; and how they have contributed to the development of each region. The interrelationships between innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource development are then clarified, and effective policies to promote Japanese agriculture and rural areas are suggested. Given its scope, the book contributes to the advancement not only of farm management science, but also of regional science and related fields.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Akira Kiminami
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Japanese Agriculture
Editors: Akira Kiminami
Series Title: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8055-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8054-9Published: 24 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8057-0Published: 25 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8055-6Published: 14 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2199-5974
Series E-ISSN: 2199-5982
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 170
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Agricultural Economics, Asian Economics, Agriculture, Human Resource Development