- 著者
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折橋 伸哉
- 出版者
- 産業学会
- 雑誌
- 産業学会研究年報 (ISSN:09187162)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.2018, no.33, pp.39-53, 2018 (Released:2019-04-01)
- 参考文献数
- 8
The Tohoku region (Northeast region of Japan including six prefectures such as Iwate, Miyagi, and so on) has suffered from deindustrialization which has caused its population to decrease. In order to overcome this situation, high expectations for the automotive industry have been raised in the Tohoku region, since the last decade. For the last several years, automotive production in the region has exceeded five hundred thousand vehicles per year, thanks to their favorable sales. However, an overview of the current status of its production model’s supply chain, a certain amount of added value has been generated outside of the region, including Mikawa area where Toyota has its headquarters and its major suppliers are located. Thus, the economic ripple effect from the automotive industry has fallen short of local expectations.Regarding the conventional automotive industry, in order to raise the economic ripple effect from the automotive industry, there are many things to do for both parts procurement and human resource development. Researchers have pointed out these things many times, however the Tohoku region have not overcome it yet.The Automotive industry is now facing its paradigm change. In order to increase its presence in the next generation automotive business, this paper points out one of the possible measures for the Tohoku region. That is, making close tie-ups between universities and their researchers in the region and increased linkages local suppliers.