This book integrates diversified methodologies of area studies, regional economic development, regional science, and related fields to draw up a strategy for forming the "regional food industrial cluster" in Northeast Asia. This is done by assigning "innovation" to a core concept, with the basic problem of food security as the horizontal axis and the areas of Northeast Asia as the vertical axis. Specifically, the principle of "collaborative advantage" as a key factor is extracted from case studies on food industrial clustering in each area. As a final objective, a practical policy recommendation is presented while the theorization of the industrial cluster is developed. Therefore it is also a challenge to the old and new issue of food security which has been argued until now.

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1 Food Security and Collaborative Advantage: Scoping the scene (Kiminami, Lily).- Part I Food Security from the Asian Perspective.- 2 Defining Japan's Food Security in East Asia: From the perspectives of the distribution revolution, environmental degradation, and international cooperation (Hara, Yonosuke).- 3 The Current Position and Future Direction of Agriculture in Northeast Asia (Shogenji, Shin-ichi).- 4 Analysis of China's Food Supply and Demand Balance and Food Security (Chen, Yongfu and Nie, Fengying).- 5 Korea's Food Security Schemes (Lee, Jaehyeon).- Part II Food Clustering in Northeast Asia.- 6 The Food System based on Agriculture: Food collaboration (Saito, Osamu).- 7 The Network Structure of a Soybean Cluster in Hokkaido (Morishima, Teruya).- 8 Competitive Advantages of Green Tea Clusters in Japan (Akune, Yuko).- 9 Food and Health-Related Industry Clustering in Niigata Prefecture:Empirical analysis on the cognitive aspects of corporations (Kiminami, Lily and Furuzawa, Shinichi).- 10 Agricultural Industry Clusters in China (Kiminami, Lily and Kiminami, Akira).- 11 Industrial Agglomeration of the Food Industry in China: An analysis of data by province(Yagi, Hironori).- 12 The Agricultural Industrialization of China's Heilongjiang Province (Jiao, Jiang).- 13 Agricultural Production and Related Business by Public Firms: A case study on Xinhua Farm, Heilongjiang (Yagi, Hironri and Zhu, Yonghao).- 14 Promotion Policies for Food Industry Cluster in Korea (Lee, Byung-Oh).- 15 The Trends and Potential for Food Industry Clusters in Korea (Lee, Jaehyeon).- 16 The Promotion of and Challenges for the Agricultural Senary Industrialization Policy in the Republic of Korea(Lee, Youkyung).- Part III Food Clustering in EU and North America.- 17 Cluster Initiatives in Eastern Poland: Good practices in agriculture and food-processing industry(Bojar, Ewa, Bojar, Matylda and Bojar, Wiktor).- 18 Main Factors Affecting Food Industry Clustering in France (Ben Arfa, Nejla, and Daniel, Karine).- 19 Industrial Cluster Analysis, Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Development(Stough, Roger R. and Yu, Junbo).