Rural and Local Entrepreneurship 10 / Entrepreneurship is not like Gambling, Information support for Local Creative policies in Japan-RESAS

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(Wen / Chen Jiting, Associate Research fellow, Agricultural Policy Research Center, Academy of Agricultural Sciences)

The promotion of local creation in Japan is the latest product based on many rolling reviews of policies in the past. in order to enable this system to truly achieve the purpose of regional revitalization, the Japanese government has proposed three support systems, including human resources, finance, and information. Following the previous introduction and written two articles on human resource support (regional revitalization team, human activation), this article will explore the powerful information aggregation platform for local creation-RESAS and its application cases.

RESAS regional economic analysis system, supporting regional analysis and development strategies

"RESAS", the abbreviation of "Regional Economy Society Analyzing System" (Regional Economic Analysis system), is an information aggregation platform set up by the Japanese government since 2015. We can regard it as an "portal" for the use of local creative data, collating a variety of data related to the regional economy (including official and private) into a system of easy-to-understand maps or charts in a visual way.

The local government / administrative department is the most important promotion unit of local creation in Japan, how to develop the characteristics in line with the characteristics of the region? This is not just an empty cheque for an election, nor is it a slogan to shout out goods and people come in, and the place will develop naturally. In the face of a wide variety of local development strategies, we have to ask: what is the basis on which these plans and strategies have been put forward? You have to say something! As a result, the function of RESAS comes, it can support each region to analyze its own strengths, weaknesses or key issues, and further serve as a tool to explore relevant solution strategies.

The interface is easy to use and helps to formulate policies based on data.

To put it simply, with the existence of RESAS, policy makers are no longer bluffed by intuition or experience or speculation, but towards data-based policy (Evidence-Based Policy Making). In order to achieve more people-friendly and widely used results, its interface is very friendly and easy to use.

In terms of current usage, the number of RESAS users has grown from 420000 to 690000 since its inception in 2015, while the number of visual information logged in the system has grown from 25 databases to 81.

Starting a business is not like gambling, it needs to be based on solid basic information.

From the system and application of RESAS, we can get a preliminary inspiration from the case of Ibaraki Prefecture, that is, solid data accumulation is really important. Discussing local creation and encouraging entrepreneurship is of course a major path, so it is not impossible to talk about entrepreneurship. The question is where is the blue ocean of new industries? Where is the niche of starting a business? When there is no supporting data, or there is data but not to analyze? Isn't this kind of entrepreneurship the same as gambling?

(in order to have a deep grasp of rural development and local creation in the context of Taiwan's reality, "upstream and downstream" and "consortium legal person Rural Development Foundation" cooperate "Rural Development Topics" to explore the current situation in Taiwan and the policy trends in Japan with a series of articles. Please click here to read the full series of articles.)

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