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Research Division
RESEARCH GROUP Ⅱ
Growth Policies and Experiences among Asian Countries
Japan was the first Asian country to become a modern developed country and has experienced various successes and failures, all of which can serve as valuable references for growing Asian countries. This group conducts research on what emerging Asian countries, as Japan’s important economic cooperation partners, can learn from Japan’s economic development process and related policies, and make policy recommendations based on the research findings.
Moreover, the present era is no longer one in which institutional reforms can be learned only from western countries. In this area, this group conducts research on what Japan can learn from the dynamic economic growth and related policies of Asian countries that grew remarkably in recent years, making policy recommendations based on the research results.
| Group Leader | KISHIMOTO Chikashi |
|---|---|
| Member | YAO Ying |
| PENG Xue |
Research Projects for FY2023
An Analysis of the Strategy of Startup Accelerators (mainly about Taiwan)
Staff:KISHIMOTO Chikashi
Associate Professor
For the past several years, I have mainly studied Taiwan’s startup ecosystem, especially focusing on accelerators, and my research in 2023 will continue this. Usually, accelerator research looks only at this as a startup development program and mainly analyzes its contents (for example, details of entrepreneur education programs and mentoring methods and their effects). This research considers accelerators not as mere training programs, but as a kind of (strategically acting) company that has its own mission, goals, concepts, different positioning and organizational capabilities, builds its own competitive advantage, and aims to achieve its mission and goals. The startup development program is also positioned in the overall picture of such a strategy, and its contents are defined by the strategy.
Accelerators that appear similar at first glance are quite different in their strategies if you look at them in detail. Broadly speaking, even if accelerators’ role is to support the launch of startups and contribute to the development of the ecosystem through the formation of startup communities, the methods are unique and quite different among accelerators. By observing these differences and the actual situation of strategy formation and implementation in detail, it is expected to lead to an understanding of the formation and development of a mechanism in which an ecosystem function as a “system”
Evaluation of the Efficiency of Drug Pricing and Insurance Systems
Staff:YAO Ying
Assistant Professor
Improving access to medicines is essential for enhancing national health and reducing health inequalities. The effective operation of drug pricing and insurance systems is key to achieving this goal. Governments worldwide are now applying Health Technology Assessment (HTA) to inform drug pricing and public health insurance coverage.
Although HTA has increased in importance in policy decisions, it typically focuses only on individual drugs and does not assess overall access to drugs. In addition, due to lack of data, existing studies have not evaluated the efficiency of drug pricing as well insurance policies in terms of drug accessibility.
The purpose of this study is to assess the efficiency of the drug pricing and insurance system by quantifying the impact of drug list changes on drug access.
「留学生○○万計画」の時代を、地方都市はいかに勝ち抜くか？
——外国人留学生の日本における就職先選択行動の特徴およびその影響要因に関する研究
担当：PENG Xue
Assistant Professor
1990年代以降、優秀な外国人留学生の獲得をめぐって世界中の先進国が競争を繰り広げてきた。その中で外国人留学生は高度人材の候補生として捉えられ、政府や経済界から高い潜在価値を持つと認識されている。日本は1983年に「留学生10万人計画」、2008年に「留学生30万人計画」を実施してきた歴史を持つ。そして、「2020年に日本国内の外国人留学生を30万人に増やす」という目標は、2019年に前倒しで達成された。2022年8月、岸田首相は日本の留学生受け入れ数をさらに拡大することを提案した。同時に、留学生が卒業後に日本で活躍しやすいような環境を整備することも国の戦略として挙げられた。これらの現状を踏まえて、外国人留学生の日本での就職を促進することに、社会的な関心が集まっている。日本の地方都市にとっても、いかに外国人留学生を誘致し、活躍してもらうかが、競争力を高めるための重要な研究課題になっている。
そこで、本研究では、留学生の日本における就職地の分布特徴と就職地選択行動の影響要因について調査・分析を行う。また、こうした分析結果を踏まえて、日本および地元九州において外国人留学生の就職・定住を効果的に促進するために，若干の対策を提言する。