Study on the Kushu's Economy from the viewpoint of Innovation and Knowledge Creation by Corporations and in Industrial Districts

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One of the factors for the innovation of the SMEs is their own effort for upgrading technology. The stimulus for its upgrading effort and the needsof the product or the process technology of the SMEs concerned, however, do not stem from the local area where they are located, but from a remote area or outside Kyushu, if the SMEs can realize a remarkable innovation. It is the case not only in an industrialdistrict as well as in a metropolitan area, but also in a rural area. However, the innovative SMEs had strived to meet the needs of the other companies or other economic agencies in their own local area at first, and then they got the order of development of some new product or new process technology by remote customers. They can get such information, because they have established some reputation among corporate managers of specific industrial sectors. In other words, innovative SMEs are corporations which develop from a company responding to the needs in a local area to a company exporting their own new products or process technology for the customers located outside their own local area. However, innovations of individual SMEs do not always lead to the growth of local orregional economies