...he South Korean textile and clothing industry is grappling with a perfect storm of challenges. Weak industrial competitiveness has led to a decline in exports and increasing consumer preference domestically for imports ...cal innovation, a reliance on low-value added products, a dearth of exportoriented products, and an industrial structure dominated by small enterprises. The Korean government has continued to support the development ...

... of which (No. 106) calls for the creation of a defense innovation ecosystem through the expansion of industrial clusters. Yet these clusters remain inadequate, and the defense innovation project for the most part ... a handful of specific case studies. Based on our analysis we present a set of basic directions and development tasks for building defense industry innovation clusters in Korea, benchmarking the clusters in the US ...

Historically, the industrial structure of any given economy has exhibited fluctuations over the long term. However, there is evidence that contemporary industrial change is increasingly influenced by a ... demographics and modern lifestyles. In addition, globalization and divergent stages of national economic development across the world influence the shape of global value chains and the export landscape, and together these ...