Innovation in Rural Japan: Entrepreneurs and Residents Meeting the Challenges of Aging and Shrinking Agricultural Communities

Kazue Haga · 2018 · Journal of Innovation Economics & Management

Summary. In Japan's aging rural agricultural communities, entrepreneurs drive economic reconstruction by creating new business combinations that integrate elderly residents as a resource. Successful entrepreneurs in these shrinking regions demonstrate typical entrepreneurial traits alongside strong empathy for their communities and residents, enabling demographic challenges to become opportunities for local economic survival and redefinition.

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  title   = {Innovation in Rural Japan: Entrepreneurs and Residents Meeting the Challenges of Aging and Shrinking Agricultural Communities},
  author  = {Kazue Haga},
  journal = {Journal of Innovation Economics & Management},
  year    = {2018},
  doi     = {10.3917/jie.pr1.0023},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.3917/jie.pr1.0023}
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DOI

10.3917/jie.pr1.0023

Countries

Japan

Regions

Asia

Categories

entrepreneurship, regional-innovation-systems

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2026-04-28