Analysis and Application of Virtual Network communities for Supporting Entrepreneurs

在本研究中，我们定义了一个虚拟网络社区，以互联网为基础的社区，由创业者，工程师，层和其他专家，以促进创业企业通过交流他们的专业知识。本研究的目的是从理论上阐明虚拟网络社区对创业企业的促进机制，并通过大量的案例研究，为创业企业的有效发展提供对策。目前，关于创业者智力支持的研究，大多集中在大学教育体系和创业投资的金融支持体系上。本研究则以虚拟网络社区为研究对象，分析其作用机制，并结合日本独特的文化特征，为有效利用虚拟网络社区提供有效的处方。1)自愿和非营利的个人虚拟网络对于促进创业的早期阶段特别有效。2)虚拟网络的松紧平衡是将其作为创业企业支撑工具的关键。3)我们还获得了一些关于虚拟网络社区演化过程的独特而有趣的结果，并将上述结果发表在学术期刊和报告中。

In this research we define a virtual network community as internet-based community consisting of entrepreneurs, engineers, layers and other specialists to promote venturing businesses by exchanging their expertness. The purpose of the research was (1) to clarify promotion mechanism of venture businesses by a virtual network community from the theoretical point of view, and (2) to obtain prescriptions for its effective development based on intensive case studies.Most of researches on intelligent support for entrepreneurs so far have focused either on education systems at universities and colleges or on financial support systems by venture capitals. This research, on the contrary, particularly centralized in virtual network community and analyzed its mechanism to obtain effective prescriptions for its effective use by taking into account the Japanese unique cultural characteristics.The followings are some of the results. 1) Voluntary and nonprofit individual-based virtual networks are especially effective for the earlier stage of promotion of venture bushiness. 2) Balance between looseness and tightness of virtual networks is the key factor to use them as support device for venture businesses. 3) We also obtained some unique and interesting results of evolution process of virtual network communities.We published the above results in academic journals and reports.