Nishimura, Junichi; Okamuro, Hiroyuki - Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems, … - 2008
We evaluate the "Industrial Cluster Project" in Japan initiated by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in 2001 in terms of industry-university partnership (IUP), using original questionnaire data of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In this paper, we use the number of patent...