효과적인 지역사회 개발을 위한 이중창업 모델: 네팔 알로 섬유 친환경 가공 적정기술 사업화 사례를 중심으로

This study introduces the dual start-up model of an AT distribution company and a social economic enterprise, focusing on the case of the Nepal Innovation Technology and Entrepreneurship Center(NITEC) project, in order to discuss the application of appropriate technology for effective community development. As a strategy for the sustainable distribution of the appropriate technology, a market-oriented approach that enables the profit generation through the distribution of appropriate technologies is drawing attention. However, since the development and commercialization of appropriate technologies require technical knowledge, capital, and human/social networks, most of the commercializations are made up of outsiders rather than local residents, which leads to the problem of insufficient sustainability. Therefore, the approach that induces the local residents-led community development through the dual establishments of AT distribution company that generates profit through the production, sales, and maintenance of appropriate technolgies and the AT-utilizing, local residents-led enterprise in the form of social economic organization is appropriate for achieving the fundamental goal of the appropriate technology. The establishment and spread of social economic organizations through the distribution of appropriate technologies achieve economies of scale and increase the productivity and income by enabling individual-level businesses to be carried out as community businesses. In addition, when appropriate technology is utilized through social economic organizations, it becomes the basis for sustainable development of local communities and the means for the local residents’ resolving their alienation from the capitalist economy in an autonomous and self-sustaining way. NITEC demonstrates that the dual start-up model based on appropriate technology is effective in the local community development by establishing the sustainable appropriate technology distribution system and the foundation for sustainable community development in Nepal’s underdeveloped Himalayan alpine regions through the dual establishments of Allo Refining System distribution company and village enterprises.