안전산업의 성장성.경쟁력 분석과 중소기업의 역할

This safety industry is a combined structure of manufacturing and service industries in which suppliers produce, and service providers execute, then consumers benefit directly or indirectly. safety product market is composed of various items, for example, advanced equipment and components to provide security service, CCTV, fire detection sensors, foreign substance analyzers, safety boots, protective clothing, and dust masks, etc. The world market of safety products and services was estimated to worth 280.9 billion US dollars in 2013. As its value seems to increase by 6.7% every year until 2023, it is expected that the worth of its market will surpass 530 billion US dollars in 10 years. On the other hand, the competitiveness of Korea's safety industry has been analyzed as a view of a change of trade balance and trade specialization index, a number of items were analyzed to be consistently inferior or even deteriorated, therefore it is necessary to improve it. Companies engaged in the domestic safety industry are mainly SMEs, so the revitalization and the development of short and long-term development plans are important in terms of facilitating the competitiveness of SMEs and creating jobs. As a policy suggestion, it is necessary to improve the structures of depending on imports of major safety products and components, strengthen government's support for development of underdeveloped technologies, and prepare for a growth road map.