Fostering Regional Strategic Industries with Reference to Daejeon Metropolitan City - Technopolis: Best Practices for Science and Technology Cities - page 281

Table 4 Criteria for the selection
Classification Criteria

High growth potential industry s

Non high growth potential industry X

Table 5 Criteria for the selection
Classification Criteria

Existence of high growth potential industry s

Nonexistence of high growth potential industry X

Table 6 Criteria for the selection
Classification Whether or not the industry is chosen as a strategic industry

Central government Chosen Chosen Not chosen Not chosen

Daejeon City Chosen Not chosen Chosen Not chosen

Criteria œ s h X

4 Selection of Strategic Industries and the Reasons: In
Case of Daejeon Metropolitan City

4.1 Selection of Strategic Industries

It was found that strategic industries in Daejeon Metropolitan City come from
the fields of semiconductor, high-tech electronic parts, communication devices,
biological industry, fine chemistry/new materials, mechatronics, and information
& communication services (Table 8 ).

4.2 Reasons of Selected Strategic Industries

4.2.1 Information and Communication Industry

In the case of information and communication industry, degree of industrial
growth is quite high and growth potential is also high. Location quotient reveals
that this industry has higher ratio in number of firms and employees than the

Table 7 Criteria for the selection
Classification

Response
coefficient [ 1

Response
coefficient \ 1

Response
coefficient [ 1

Response
coefficient \ 1

Influence
coefficient [ 1

Influence
coefficient [ 1

Influence
coefficient \ 1

Influence
coefficient \ 1

Criteria œ s h X

Legendœ: excellent; s: good; h: mean; X: bad or weak