| The Chubu Area offers a variety of industrial parks, and prices for
sites are far more reasonable when compared with the Kanto (Tokyo) and Kinki (Osaka)
regions.
There are sites available in
research parks etc. that concentrate on R&D type businesses and the R&D sectors of
businesses. Many business-incubating facilities are also available. These facilities
provide tie-ups with universities and R&D institutions that offer support for starting
up businesses.
The JETRO Business Support
Center (in Nagoya) provides office space free of charge to overseas businesses that do not
have any business base in the Chubu Area.
Companies advancing into the Chubu Area will be capable of securing sites and
offices that adequately match their management strategies.
Municipalities are encouraging overseas companies to
locate their office sites in its municipality. Various incentives are offered to such
companies, such as tax exemption, loans, and subsidies etc. if sites are established in
the respective municipality.
The Chubu Area has a number of universities,
colleges of technology and higher education institutions with natural science faculties,
producing 20,000 graduates every year. Foreign affiliated companies will have no
difficulties in securing highly skilled human resources and labor force. In addition,
various job-training schemes and facilities are available to provide further training and
education for engineers.
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