An Analysis of Growth Engine Industries using the ORBIS DB.

Lee-Nam Kwon; Jun-Hwan Park; Yeong-Ho Moon; Bang-Rae Lee

Many countries set growth engine technologies and industries for economic growth and job creation. Each country always wants to know their technological or industrial position in the world in these industries. This study aims at identifying the worldwide position of 19 growth engine industries defined in Korean government. The methods are quantitative by counting the number of startup companies in the world. The ORBIS database was used to extract the number. Therefore, this article may be the first research for the world appearance of growth engine industries and its comparison between world and G7, and between G7 countries. Also, this may be the first study using the ORBIS database on the analysis of certain technology industries. Further, we showed a method to identify world features of technology industries.

ECONOMIC development; INDUSTRIES -- Information services; GROUP of Seven (Organization)

Asian Journal of Innovation & Policy, 2016, Vol 5, Issue 3, p275

2287-1608

Academic Journal

10.7545/ajip.2016.5.3.275