The Navy's defense industry has an industrial structure mixed with shipbuilding technology and weapons systems technology, and features of the industry that requires long-term learning effects as a labor and capital-intensive industry.
If the Navy’s...
The Navy's defense industry has an industrial structure mixed with shipbuilding technology and weapons systems technology, and features of the industry that requires long-term learning effects as a labor and capital-intensive industry.
If the Navy’s defense industry misses a technical development period and has a prolonged slump, it will be costly and time-consuming in industrial revival, and the core technology of advanced countries will make the gap even more serious. Also, if Korea fails to take a technological lead in the era of the fourth industrial revolution, Korea will be forced to retreat from developed countries in the maritime sector to those that are subcontracted, thus limiting serious flaws in maritime security and the application of key technologies to naval buildup.
To solve this problem, the Navy should operate the Intellectual Property Statement department to clearly present policy goals for protecting critical technologies and ensuring national security, and manage the intellectual property to realize national interests in the mid- to long-term.
Therefore, the Navy's intellectual property research is required to avoid being affected by the construction of naval forces and national security by the dependency of critical technology.