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Company-Level Technological Innovation in DPR Korea: Focusing on Kumkhop General Foodstuff Factory for Sportspeople

Hojye Kang – 2022

The ‘Kumkhop General Foodstuff Factory for Sportspeople’ has launched techno-logical innovation policies in North Korea's food industry since 2010. The policies have been connected to the national development strategies, which means transfer-ring military resources to civilians. This study examined how the economic development strategy emphasizing science and technology was implemented in individual companies in the food industry. It included automation and changes based on IT and CNC technology. In addition, it was confirmed that the rights of individual companies are being strengthened in the economic system that North Korea is developing, the Socialist System of Responsible Business Operation. Small but continued changes in the North Korean economy are shown by depicting some micro-activities of individual companies, corresponding to macro-policies. It could be possible that North Korea has been moving toward a technological innovation-friendly society.

Titel
Company-Level Technological Innovation in DPR Korea: Focusing on Kumkhop General Foodstuff Factory for Sportspeople
Verfasser
Verlag
The Korean History of Science Society/한국과학사학회
Ort
http://www.khss.or.kr/
Datum
2022-06-31
Erschienen in
The Korean Journal for the History of Science 44-2 (2022), 321-338
Art
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Schlagwörter

  • North Korea, technological innovation, the autonomy of company, food industry, Kumkhop General Foodstuff Factory for Sportspeople, integrated production system