International Comparative Analysis of Regional Capabilities and Evolution of R & D Networks of Kansai Biocluster

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Compared to advanced areas in Europe and United States, bioclusters in Japan are criticized in a way that they tend to have low regional capabilities to commercializeoutcomes and make business from frontier research in research institutes within them. The main aim of this research project is to discuss this issue, mainly comparative analysis of cases and data in the Kansai Biocluster. Based on longitudinal analysis of interorganizational R & D networks in 2000’s, we found that main universities and research institutes took central hubs within the cluster, using join-patent data. However, based on international comparison, even in the Kansai Biocluster, the national government takes relatively stronger initiative in industry-academia alliances than the United States and main European countries, but horizontal relationships among main university / large corporations and regional small-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), especially ventures. It suggests that there may not be active knowledge transfer among main research institutes to SMEs.