Korea’s industrial robot sector is now the world’s fifth-largest, aided by systematic and consistentgovernment policy over the past decade. It is still heavily reliant on imports for key parts however,and the industry is fragmented, consisting of many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in...

This study focuses on the demand sector of smart factories, especially policies related to the introduction of smart factories by small and medium sized manufacturers. As will be explained later, discussions focusing on SMEs are important because the gap in capacity and resources between large...

This report examines the place of China’s automobile industry in the global market and analyzes the recent, rapid increase in Chinese automobile exports. In addition, the implications carried by the rise of Chinese auto exports for the Korean automobile industry are identified and analyzed

This is the third edition of the KIET Korean defense industry statistics and competitiveness report in 2014. The main purpose of this report is to establish the basis of the Korean defense industrial statistics with an actual survey from 2008 to 2013. Moreover, it also includes the defense...

Being technology and knowledge-intensive and high valued, the engineering industry enhances the competitiveness and productivity of related industries. Moreover, recent economic circumstances continue to raise the significance of the engineering realm, not only along with the spread of...

The electronic medical devices industry has multidisciplinary properties that requires various fields such as IT, mechanical engineering, chemistry, medicine, physiology, biotechnology, and statistics. As demand for medical services has shifted from being treatment-oriented to diagnosis and...

The Moon Jae-In administration first promulgated a policy to support the Korean defense industry in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in its 2017 national agenda. In accordance with this, the Korea Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) announced 2018-2022 Defense...

Considering its industrial scale and ripple effects on other industries, the plant industry has a significant impact on the national economy. In particular, the industry is considered have the potential to help address continued sluggish growth in the Korean economy. Its contributions include...

The shipbuilding equipment and materials (E&M) industry can play a crucial role in the paradigm shift occurring in the shipbuilding sector, dominated by the transition to smart and eco-friendly vessels. An aggressive strategy for localization and commercialization of shipbuilding E&M is...

Since roughly 2015, the world has been witnessing the dawn of the age of “NewSpace,” with space now being explored by a new set of parties for a set of purposes distinct from those of the past. NewSpace is commonly used to refer to the private sector’s growing leadership in space...