우리나라 주력 제조업의 기술경쟁력 강화를 위한 정책 방향 연구 - 철강 산업의 중소중견기업의 육성을 위한 기술개발 지원을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Korea has fostered and developed world-class manufacturing industries through compressed growth over the past 50 years. Through this, it has raised its status as a manufacturing powerhouse, but it is suffering from various environmental changes such as weakening competitiveness of major manufacturing industries, digital conversion, and disputes over materials and components in Japan. This study aims to present the direction of development of Korea's main manufacturing industry through case analysis of Steel industry, which is our representative major industry. The Steel industry is Korea's core infrastructure industry and is driving the development of the national industry with the No. 1 front-to-back industrial inducement effect, the No. 6 export, and the No. 8 employment industry. In particular, it is suitable for analysis as it serves as a major infrastructure industry that supplies key materials to major industries such as automobiles and shipbuilding industries due to the high impact of the overall domestic manufacturing industry. The research method to derive policy directions for strengthening the technological competitiveness of the Steel industry was conducted by analyzing the mega Trend of the Steel industry and analyzing the demand survey of small and medium-sized companies. The analysis results confirm that high value-added and high-quality Steel production is an important subject of support for technology development and that support for specialized technology development of small and medium-sized Steel companies is needed. In particular, by supporting technology development specialized in high value-added and high-quality Steel processing technologies, it was confirmed that the industrial competitiveness value chain between large Steel-based companies, small and medium-sized Steel processing companies, and demand-finished product companies needs to be strengthened at the same time.