대구시 제조업의 특성과 대안적 정책과제

Abstract

Daegu city's traditional textile industry has declined since the 1980s, while the machine and materials industry, including the assembly of metal products, automobile and other mobile equipment manufacturing, has consistently grown. The structure of Daegu city's manufacturing industries, which had been traditionally based on the textile industry, has diversified to include the IT convergence industry with mechatronics due to the development of the IT industry since the 1990s, which includes the machine and materials industry. Despite this diversification in industrial structure, the structural problems of manufacturing industries in Daegu city have not improved. In the case of corporate management, the rates of private business and single business are extremely high, indicating a premodern managerial system where ownership and control are not separated. These structural problems lead to the external loss of public confidence toward manufacturing industries in Daegu city. Moreover, firms' capacity in technology innovation is insufficient because few firms have high technology or their own research and development centers. Daegu city's labor with skills and experience in advanced technology and in research and development keep leaving for the Seoul metropolitan area as well as for other regions, and the small manufacturing firms in Daegu city suffer from a skilled labor shortage in research and technology at the same time. Thus Daegu city's manufacturers face difficulties in technology and management innovation, weakening the region's competitiveness in manufacturing. The Daegu city government, however, has made continual efforts with regional industrial policies since the late 1990s to strengthen the competitiveness of manufacturing. These efforts produced tangible achievements for structural improvement and competitiveness by 2010.