This study focuses on the effectiveness of regional business support programs funded by South Korea's Balanced National Development Special Account, one of the policies designed to address regional imbalances and promote local autonomy. Using the analytical approach including DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) methodology, This study analyzed the efficiency of 76 star companies in the Jeonbuk region based on their performance from 2018 to 2023. This study was designed to improve previous studies limitations, which only analyzed simple input-output efficiency in the short term, by using six years of mid-term data to comprehensively evaluate input variables in both R&D and Non-R&D sectors. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of the expiring Star Company Development Program by evaluating efficiency of supported company groups using DEA and to propose support models and policy suggestions for upcoming regional specialized industries support program by identifying the features of both optimal and inefficiency models. For this, employments along with financial indicators such as sales revenue, operating profit, and total assets were set as output variables, with R&D and non-R&D support amounts were set as input variables for analysis. According to the results, the optimal efficiency model group has strong intellectual property acquisition capabilities, and continuous R&D investment. It shows that continuous innovation activities are a key factor for improving the effectiveness of support. This study found that, from a mid․long term perspective, policy support programs should be customized by unique characteristics of each industry field, Based on this, it was suggested that upcoming regional specialized industry support programs in the Jeonbuk region should include policy planning and support program design to complement the weaknesses of each industry field.

본 연구에서는 사례연구 대상지역(인천)의 특화산업에 대해 LQ지수분석을 통해 해양특화산업을 도출하고, 특화산업의 해양 공간 활용현황과 용도구역 설정에 따른 현안을 진단하였다. 대상지역의 해양산업에 대한 LQ지수(Location Quotients, LQ) 분석을 통해 사 업체수 기준 LQ지수 1.08, 종사자수 기준 LQ지수 1.67로 전국평균 대비 높은 해양바이오산업을 인천지역 해양특화산업으로 선정하였 다. 해양특화산업인 해양바이오산업의 현안진단을 위해 영흥도 실증 배양장 사례 검토 및 가장 낮은 특화도를 나타낸 해양에너지개발 부문에서의 현안 진단을 통해 해양용도구역의 중첩문제, 이해관계자간 민원발생 이슈 등 현장문제 해결을 위해서 객관적이고 정량적 근거를 기반으로 정책의사결정지원시스템 마련이 필요하다는 결론을 제시하였다.

The concept of RIS(Regional Innovation System) has widely been used in discourse and policy issues in Korea. But most studies of RIS concern on BT or IT industries combining with diverse regional agencies in urban areas. Some other studies were concentrated on general ideas or concept of the RIS. The purposes of this study are (1) to suggest a analytical method to select specialized industry in local autonomy, (2) to analyze the relationship between specialized industry and gross sales of agricultural products and stock farm products, (3) to analyze the relationship between gross sales of agricultural products and stock farm products and GRDP, and (4) to construct a model of RIS that fits particularly for rural areas. This study particularly accentuates that a specialized industry is more meaningful when it can raise GRDP, which eventually can give positive effect of RIS on regions.