Japan version Silicon Valley aims to be designated as a venture base in 4 metropolitan areas 4:14 on July 14
In order to develop a city that will serve as a base for venture companies, such as Silicon Valley in the United States, the government has set Tokyo, Aichi, Osaka, and Fukuoka as "global base cities" that promote investment and attracting human resources from overseas. It has been decided to specify four central metropolitan areas.
The “Global Base City” aims to develop a city that will be the base of activity for venture companies in order to foster companies that will drive the national economy such as the giant IT company called GAFA. There was an application from the local government.
As a result of selection,
▽Tokyo metropolitan area centered on Tokyo, Tsukuba city, Ibaraki prefecture, etc.
▽Central region combining Aichi prefecture, Nagoya city, Hamamatsu city,
▽Osaka city, Kyoto city, Kobe city The
four areas of the Kansai area, ▽ Fukuoka city, have been designated.
The government will position the next three years as a period of intensive support, and will promote preferential subsidies and significant deregulation to the councils established by each base city with local economic groups and universities, as well as from overseas. Our policy is to promote investment and attracting human resources.
Although the government is smaller than the “global base city”, it aims to accumulate venture companies in specific fields such as smart agriculture and environmental technology, and aims to promote Sapporo city, Sendai city, Hiroshima prefecture, and Kitakyushu city as “promotion base city”. I will specify it.