한국과 일본의 중소기업 해외진출 지원체계정비에 대한 비교연구

Abstract

This study compares comprehensive government initiatives in Korea and Japan to support small and medium enterprises'(SMEs') overseas expansion. From October 2013 Korean government under the initiative of the Office for Government Policy Coordination(Prime Minister Office) started to review all the government support programs by different ministries and government related organizations for SMEs' exportand investment activities abroad. Meanwhile, in Japan a support committee chaired by the METI(Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) minister, and participated by various related ministries, government related supporting organizations, SME associations and financial institutions, was established in October 2010 to formulate the framework for supporting Japanese SMEs in overseas business expansion. Based on the analysis of the prior three years experiences of Japanese government to formulate and improve these comprehensive initiatives this study tries to find out policy implications to Korea. According to this comparison of the review process between Korea and Japan, this study finds the most prominent difference that Korea followed the top-down approach to enhance the budget efficiency of export supporting programs by eliminating redundancy, while Japan adopted the bottom-up approach to check the fitness of supporting programs with the genuine needs of SMEs based on the interviewing approximately 5,000 SMEs which were willing to go abroad. Based on the comparison this different approaches between Korea and Japan, this study suggested three policy recommendations to the Korean government so that it could formulate the framework to help SMEs effectively expand their foreign business.