Abstract
This chapter explains the research design of this study. The objective is to explore a management approach for facilitating the establishment of cross-sectoral collaboration to promote the regional industry through building/operating the regional system and building/rebuilding the management body. First, since this study aims at theory building, it is considered how to conduct case studies based on the review of the previous studies. Next, the selection of the target case is considered. Here, the criteria for selecting cases are listed, and the cases of three German regions are discussed as fulfilling the criteria. Finally, data collection and analysis are described. In this section, data collection for conducting the case studies is described in detail. Additionally, it is explained that a qualitative comparative analysis method and process tracing for each case study are used to analyze the results of the case studies.
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