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Flying Geese Pattern

Flying Geese Pattern
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

A theory proposed by Kaname Akamatsu that describes the pattern of industrial transfer between countries. The leading country (the lead goose) develops an industry, and as costs rise, transfers that industry to latecomer countries (the following geese), forming a flying geese formation of industrial transfer.

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Prediction of industrial transfer. It explains why industries transfer sequentially among countries. In industrial upgrading planning, it helps latecomer countries identify opportunities to undertake transferred industries, and also helps leading countries anticipate the direction and timing of industrial upgrading.

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The leading country first develops an industry, and as costs rise, transfers it outward; latecomer countries successively undertake and upgrade, forming a gradient formation of "lead goose - following geese".

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