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Regional Information Yokohama city
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Business Development Division, Economic Affairs Bureau
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Yokohama city
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The information below is as of November 2017.
IT
(Related sectors: ICT, Electronics)
Attractive features |
Many world-leading electronics manufacturers and R&D sites have moved into Yokohama and environs, and the small and medium-sized technology companies supporting them have agglomerated in a multi-layered fashion. Concentrations of distinctive IT companies can be seen throughout the city – semiconductor development companies in the Shin-yokohama |
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Principal Japanese companies in the industry |
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Principal foreign companies in the industry |
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Major education/research institutes of the industry |
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Major industry cluster plans, special zones and industry-government-academia collaboration of the industry |
Yokohama City is promoting a cluster of IT industries focused on hardware for semiconductor design development. |
Biotechnology
(Related sectors: Life science)
Attractive features |
Yokohama City is working on revitalization of biotechnology-related industries by accumulating biotechnology-related industries, providing support for sales channel development, and promoting technological partnership between companies and industry, academia, and government. The city also launched the Yokohama Life Innovation Platform (LIP. Yokohama) to enhance collaboration among companies, universities and research institutes for the creation of projects; it also supports R&D and commercialization by small and medium-sized enterprises. |
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Principal Japanese companies in the industry |
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Principal foreign companies in the industry |
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Major education/research institutes of the industry |
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Major industry cluster plans, special zones and industry-government-academia collaboration of the industry |
Yokohama has positioned the Kihara Memorial Yokohama Foundation for the Advancement of Life Sciences, which has a long history and know-how in industrial-academic-governmental collaboration on biotechnology, as its key organization in strengthening and expanding its human networks and enhancing projects to assist biotechnology companies. The city is engaged in comprehensive promotional measures including support for joint research between companies and universities and other research organizations, and support for formulating business plans on research and development by small and medium-sized enterprises under the Yokohama Life Innovation Platform (LIP. Yokohama). |