In order to reduce widespread poverty in developing countries, it is essential to create jobs by promoting industrial development. Yet, there is no clear-cut and effective strategy to develop industries. This study tackles the problems facing cluster-based industrial development and suggests effective strategies for a more successful future.
Based on a number of case studies and the results of six Kaizen management training experiments, this book has found that efficient management is the key to the innovation, which, in turn, is a major engine of firm and industrial growth. The studies undertaken reveal that management training not only enhances management capacity of entrepreneurs but also serves as an effective screening device to identify promising and non-promising entrepreneurs, which enables targeted policies to support the former. KAIZEN management is found to be effective in improving production management and quality control in several countries in SSA, which supports the authors' view that the management training is an integral part of the effective industrial development strategy.
This book is essential reading for scholars and researchers interested in economic development and industrial policy.

Tetsushi Sonobe is a professorial fellow at the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) and a professor at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan. He received a PhD in Economics from Yale University and is the co-author of Cluster-Based Industrial Development: A Comparative Study of Asia and Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Keijiro Otsuka is a professorial fellow at FASID and a professor at GRIPS, Japan. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago, USA and is the co-author of the above book. He is an Associate Editor of Economic Development and Cultural Change and the co-author or co-editor of sixteen books.

1. Introduction
PART I: MANAGEMENT, INNOVATIONS, AND ENTERPRISE GROWTH
2. Innovation and Cluster Development
3. Management and Innovations
PART II: IMPACTS OF MANAGEMENT TRAINING
4. The Large but Varying Effects of Basic Management Training in a Metalworking Cluster in Kumasi, Ghana
5. Improved Performance of Small but Trained Firms in a Metalworking Cluster in Nairobi, Kenya
6. Effects of Classroom and Onsite Training in a Metalworking Cluster in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
7. Increasing Interests in Management Training in a Knitwear Village in Hatay, Vietnam
8. Spillover Effects of Management Training in a Garment Cluster in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
9. Management Training for Micro Entrepreneurs in a Garment Cluster in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
PART III: TOWARDS A STRATEGY FOR MSE DEVELOPMENT
10. New Industrial Policy: KAIZEN Management Training as a Key to Cluster-Based Development