地域イノベーション

中山間地

地域振興政策

Switzerland

mountain areas

regional development policy

研究の概要(英文)：Regio Plus is a regional policy program of the Swiss federal government that bridges the New Regional Policy, which came into effect in 2008, and the old generation of Swiss regional policy measures, which were first introduced in the 1970s and widened gradually in the following decades. Regio Plus was designed to promote endogenous development projects proposed by various regional actors: the federal government provide subsidy to the "software" side of the projects, i.e. compensation of project coordinators, marketing costs, consulting fees etc. This paper tries to find what Japanese regional policy might learn from the experience of Regio Plus. The main conclusions are as follows. The final assessment of Regio Plus conducted by Ecoplan et.al.[2007] may somewhat be too positive; moreover, the much greater importance of tourism in regional economy in Switzerland requires some caution in interpreting the experience to the Japanese case. Nevertheless the following points may seem to earn attention. First, the variety of types projects which were successful in exploiting resources particular to the region in concern seems to suggest the possibility of decentralized and "bottom-up" project origination and operation. Second, the "software-oriented" policy measures can be quite effective in stimulating endogenous efforts. Third, Regio Plus was clearly designed as a transition tool - from regional policy as a measure the gap between economically handicapped and favored regions, to a measure to foster competitive edge of the whole country by encouraging endogenous development of its weaker regions

209 地域研究センター ＞ 紀要 ＞ 地域イノベーション：JRPS：journal for regional policy studies ＞ 2