新興企業支援の「拠点都市」決定　東京、愛知など４地域―政府

　竹本直一科学技術担当相は１４日の記者会見で、スタートアップ企業の創業・成長を国が支援する「グローバル拠点都市」として、東京、愛知、大阪、福岡の４地域を選んだと発表した。
　先端技術などを活用する新産業の創出を、予算優先配分や規制緩和などを通じて後押し。今年度中に各拠点での事業開始を目指す。竹本氏は「（米国の）シリコンバレーと肩を並べる成長拠点をつくりたい」と意欲を示した。
　４地域は(1)東京都、横浜市など(2)愛知県、名古屋市、浜松市など(3)大阪市、京都市、神戸市など(4)福岡市など―が対象。政府は２０２４年度までに、スタートアップ企業の創業件数を、１８年度から倍増させる目標を掲げている。（2020/07/14-18:41）

The Japanese government has designated four regions, such as one including Tokyo, as hubs where it will back up the launch and development of startups, science and technology minister Naokazu Takemoto said Tuesday.
   "We hope to create development hubs going toe-to-toe with Silicon Valley," he said at a press conference.
   Of the four, the Tokyo region includes Tokyo and the city of Yokohama, the capital of neighboring Kanagawa Prefecture, and the Aichi region comprises the central prefecture of Aichi, its capital of Nagoya, the city of Hamamatsu in neighboring Shizuoka Prefecture and others. The Osaka region mainly consists of the city of Osaka and the nearby western cities of Kyoto and Kobe, and the Fukuoka region includes the southwestern city of Fukuoka.
   The government will give budget priority to and implement deregulation in the four hubs to nurture new industries utilizing cutting-edge technologies, aiming to launch such businesses by the end of March 2021.
   The government has set a goal of doubling the annual number of startup launches in Japan by fiscal 2024 from the fiscal 2018 level.