Korea Government Policy Evaluation of The Research Equipment Industry

Abstract

This study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of the government's Research Equipment Industry Promotion Policy by comparing and analyzing the trends in research equipment manufactured for the periods 2017-2019 and 2020-2022. We analyzed 1,637 domestic research equipment that were manufactured from 2017 to 2022 through the National Research and Development (R&D) program. The Mann-Whitney U test and the one-sample Chi-square test were used to compare the difference in the amount spent and the number of equipment manufactured before and after the policy was implemented. In addition, the Kruskal-Wallis test and single-sample Chi-square test were used to compare the difference in the amount spent and the number of equipment built in the three years before and after the policy was implemented. The results of this study showed statistically significant differences in the above parameters before and after the policy implementation. Therefore, it was confirmed that the policy to promote the research equipment industry was effective in improving the production of domestic research equipment, suggesting that various policy support measures are needed to encourage the use of the equipment.