A study for the regional industrial regeneration entrepreneur's Capabilities and Qualifications

摘要

Regional industries of Japan are stalled with no way out, since their direction and position to take have not been clarified. However, the regeneration of regional industries should be proposed to dispel the sense of stagnation that exists throughout Japan. Regional regeneration have been discussed based on a wide variety of approaches including sociology, urban design theory, and community theory. Yet only a few attempts have been made so far at regional industrial regeneration taken by entrepreneurs. Therefore, this article attempts to compare and consider various cases of regional industrial regeneration entrepreneur's capabilities and qualifications. With respect to regional industrial regeneration entrepreneurs as innovator, this article proposes his/hers essential Capabilities and Qualifications. From the consideration, it was suggested that regional industry regeneration entrepreneur must have Capabilities and Qualifications to generate a disruptive innovation. From the comparative analysis of the four president as regional industry regeneration entrepreneur, “Transfer Output,” “Circulation Force,” “Being a Stranger,” “Events that pull the Trigger,” “Associating,” “Questioning,” “Observing,” “Networking,” “Experimenting,” “Entrepreneurial courage” and “Risk-taking” are suggested to be essential for the regional industrial regeneration entrepreneur as a hypothesis. In addition, it has been also suggested that the regional industrial regeneration is one of the disruptive innovation.