國家 그리고 企業의 成功과 産業디자인의 役割 = The Role of Industrial Design in Successful Firms

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In terms of international comptition, the most sighificant feature of the last thirty years has been the increasing success of first japan and then other Eastern countries in penetrating the markets of the traditional centres of technological expertise in Europe and North America. The role of design in this success has tended to be neglected in academic studies.
In global aspects of development, Korean Industrialisation seems very successful through a system of importing foreign technology, of utilising imported technology and finally in generating exports in terms of three elements: and outwardlooking development strategy, motivated human resources and a favourable international economic environment. Within the system of Korea's export-led industrialisation, it is commonly understood that design development lags behind the technological development which is the first requirement for the initiation of production. Technological development was successfully and rapidly brought about with the backing of government policy which the authority was directed to individual companies for the indigenous industrial development in the early 1980s. With the individual indigenous development, becoming successful firms in manufacturing industry, many fields and various components relating to the process of success should willingly be involved and carefully deliberated in the process of innovating a product. Here, industrial design will be mainly focused among those elements.
Therefore, the present study concentrates on two important factors in success; 1) the reason of the importance of industrial design and 2) the effects of industrial design among various elements. In first factor, one reason for believing that design may be more important in the future is the fact that increasing demand from workers could reduce its successful exprot performance if labour cost increased to advanced countries' level. There are three ways in which increasing the emphasis on industrial design could offer an alternative to fighting the trades unions on wage issues. First, through an attempt to produce better products that will sell at a slightly or much higher price. Second, through an attempt to shift into the production of high value added high fashion items that will be strongly competitive with other newly industrialising countries. Third, through an attempt to reconsider design policy and strategy for the necesary adjustment to both various products and markets in the light of foreign protectionism. In order to obtain detailed information about the possibility of industrial design playing an important part in Korean industry, the studies described as following in Korean.
In second factor, it may be vitally important to find out what the effect of investement in each components, particularly in design. In order to analyse the matter, the method of value analysis has been applied and finally the result can be earned into two kinds such as direct and indirect effects.
In conclustion, Industrial design must be deeply considered as a vitally important component at the current stage of Korean industrial and economic growth and should be efficiently and bravely more invested than any others to make higher profit for our standard living in terms of economic equity.