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Appendix: Introduction to an Application of Biology to the Formation of Segments in an Industrial Cluster

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Kuchiki regards the formation process of an industrial cluster as a form of ontogenesis, analyses the formation process of segments of an industrial cluster and examines the sequence of the formation process. A segment is a part of the body that performs a specific function. Hox genes in genetic engineering play a leading role in forming the segments of an industrial cluster. Hox genes at the head of each segment are switches to initiate the formation of segments. The sequence of Hox genes determines the sequence of segment formation. There are economies of sequence in the ordering of Hox genes to form an industrial cluster. The first priority in industrial cluster policy should be given to nominating a master switch as a good leader.

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    RNA is a linear polymer of the four different nucleotides of A, G, C and U. The number of possible combinations of the three consecutive nucleotides (a codon) is 4 × 4 × 4 (64), from AAA, AAG, AAC and AAU to UUA, UUG, UUC and UUU. Examples of the triplets are GAA, GAG, GAC and GAU starting from G, and CAA, CAG, CAC and CAU starting from C. Not 64 but 20 different amino acids are found in proteins. The sequence of nucleotides is read consecutively in groups of three. The nucleotide sequence of a gene is translated into the amino acid sequence of a protein by rules that are known as the genetic code. Note that the successful sequence for industrial clustering is not one pattern but may be several different ones, just as the combinations of arginine in an amino acid are of four types: CGU, CGC, CGA and CGG. This means that the first sequence of C and G is crucial to the combinations of arginine, but that the third nucleotide of the sequence is insignificant in determining arginine. The successful sequence of industrial cluster policy is not fixed but “flexible”. This chapter hypothesizes steps I and II of industrial clustering in the labor-intensive manufacturing industry.

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    Akifumi Kuchiki

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  1. College of Bioresource Science, Nihon University, Kanagawa, Japan

    Akifumi Kuchiki

  2. College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Kanagawa, Japan

    Tetsuo Mizobe

  3. IDE-JETRO, Chiba, Japan

    Toshitaka Gokan

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Kuchiki, A. (2017). Appendix: Introduction to an Application of Biology to the Formation of Segments in an Industrial Cluster. In: Kuchiki, A., Mizobe, T., Gokan, T. (eds) A Multi-Industrial Linkages Approach to Cluster Building in East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57128-1_13

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