A national concern about industry and technology development has increased since a full-scale of promotion of industrialization, in early 1960. Technology development is a prerequisite for a smooth propulsion of nation's industrialization, and core fa...
A national concern about industry and technology development has increased since a full-scale of promotion of industrialization, in early 1960. Technology development is a prerequisite for a smooth propulsion of nation's industrialization, and core factor of highly industrialized society. Nation's competitive various technologies have assumed a great role for industrial development. However, recently a deviation in technology level has started to narrowed in many fields, and as the consumption pattern is changing, the importance of the design is lifting higher and higher centering in the 21th century industry. An active investment and technology development to secure design competition have begun already centering around the some large enterprise. Besides, the government also supply diverse policies and supports under the consideration of the importance of the design and design industry.A necessity of design increase even in the medical equipment industry which has been showing a strong technology-centered disposition. Lately, with an extension of electronic medical equipments market, the demand for home products has been enlarged greatly resulted in over 10% of high growth, and yet they are still overshadowed by import products.Although the rate of dependence on imports is reducing since the regular production of domestic medical equipments has started after the 1990s, they are limited to partial items such as cheap consumption goods or machines for image diagnosis causing a little ripple effect in the market. The multinational corporations such as GE Medical, German and Phillips that have commend of the worldwide medical device market hold various registered designs and patents on the medical devices, and such specialized technologies and designs are known to have a considerable synergy effects on an increase in product competitionThe majority of the nation's medical device firms are small sized and seem to be interested only in productivity improvement and price competition. Amid such atmosphere, professional medical device enterprises seem to have begun to organize their own design team and operate it and to take interest in strengthening of product designs. With that, Wonju techno Valley Center has been carried out on support project for the medical equipments enterprises in Gangwon from 2005, and currently(2008)the 4th project is on the wayThis study targets to detect the characteristics of the design support project and to assess whether its quantitative and qualitative development are well conducted, based on the survey of contents and beneficiaries of WMIT's design support project. Besides, based on it, I like to propose a desirable future direction. I examined and analyzed the data of the home and abroad organizations which unfold support projects using the governments or independently for the medium and small firms. In oversea, many design centers carry out the support project also for the firms.Such support projects are being done showing something similar between them or showing their own characteristics. And if survey and detection over the home and oversea organizations' support projects considering such matters, should be done, it would turn into a great elements for an analysis on support projects of Wonju medical Industry Techno valley.Domestic and abroad support projects were looked into to erect a reference point and the merits and demerits of the internal and external Wonju medical Industry Techno valley were analyzed. And I will examine many firms which benefited from the project or joint the related activities through questionnaire and depth interview to use a comparative data for the proposal of an heightened plan for future support project.