- With a project manager and managers recruited
from the private sector, the Nagoya City New Business Support
Centerprovides comprehensivesupport to entrepreneurs and small
and medium-sized companies which are launching new businesses.The
Center offers a consultation service easily available either at
the center or at the client’s office, a business analysis service
with experts dispatched on an ongoing basis, a variety of training
courses, and publications such as the Guidebook on Support for
NewBusinesses. It also runs the Nagoya Business-matching Project
offering business feasibility study services for new products
and business-matching services in the rapidly-growing Nagoya to
help them open up new markets.
- The Nagoya Small & Medium Enterprise Promotion
Center offers small and medium-sized companies in the city a variety
of management consultation,training, and ISO certification supportservices
to help them reinforce their management base and revitalize their
operations. The city also offers various financing plans to facilitate
financing for, and promote the growth and development of, small
andmedium-sized companies in the city.
- To actively promote and support collaboration
among industry, academia and government for creating new industries,
the city organizes various study groups and lecture meetings to
help enhance communications. The city also runs joint R&D
projects utilizing the subsidy plans of the national government,such
as the Knowledge Cluster Initiative.
- The city has business incubators to train entrepreneurs
starting new businesses and to assist small and medium-sized companies
planning to
launch into new fields. In April 2006, COMBi Honjin opened in
a closed-down elementary school building to support entrepreneurs
willing to launch community-based businesses.
- In Shidami,MoriyamaWard, the Nagoya Science
Park is now being constructed. T he R&D Park comprises three
zones (A, B and C) and an area to help the public experience the
world of high technology.
- The
Nagoya Municipal Industrial Research Institute helps small and
medium-sized companies to up grade their production technologies
and conduct R&D. The support services cover industrial technologies
in the domains of machinery, materials, chemistry and electronics.
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