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Development of the Regulatory Impact Analysis Framework for the Convergence Industry: Case Study on Regulatory Issues by Emerging Industry

융합산업 규제영향분석 프레임워크 개발: 신산업 분야별 규제이슈 사례 연구

  • Song, Hye-Lim (Korea National Industrial Convergence Center(KNICC), KITECH) ;
  • Seo, Bong-Goon (Korea National Industrial Convergence Center(KNICC), KITECH) ;
  • Cho, Sung-Min (Korea National Industrial Convergence Center(KNICC), KITECH)
  • 송혜림 (한국생산기술연구원 국가산업융합지원센터) ;
  • 서봉군 (한국생산기술연구원 국가산업융합지원센터) ;
  • 조성민 (한국생산기술연구원 국가산업융합지원센터)
  • Received : 2021.06.18
  • Accepted : 2021.08.27
  • Published : 2021.09.30
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Abstract

Innovative new products and services are being launched through the convergence between heterogeneous industries, and social interest and investment in convergence industries such as AI, big data-based future cars, and robots are continuously increasing. However, in the process of commercialization of convergence new products and services, there are many cases where they do not conform to the existing regulatory and legal system, which causes many difficulties in companies launching their products and services into the market. In response to these industrial changes, the current government is promoting the improvement of existing regulatory mechanisms applied to the relevant industry along with the expansion of investment in new industries. This study, in these convergence industry trends, aimed to analysis the existing regulatory system that is an obstacle to market entry of innovative new products and services in order to preemptively predict regulatory issues that will arise in emerging industries. In addition, it was intended to establish a regulatory impact analysis system to evaluate adequacy and prepare improvement measures. The flow of this study is divided into three parts. In the first part, previous studies on regulatory impact analysis and evaluation systems are investigated. This was used as basic data for the development direction of the regulatory impact framework, indicators and items. In the second regulatory impact analysis framework development part, indicators and items are developed based on the previously investigated data, and these are applied to each stage of the framework. In the last part, a case study was presented to solve the regulatory issues faced by actual companies by applying the developed regulatory impact analysis framework. The case study included the autonomous/electric vehicle industry and the Internet of Things (IoT) industry, because it is one of the emerging industries that the Korean government is most interested in recently, and is judged to be most relevant to the realization of an intelligent information society. Specifically, the regulatory impact analysis framework proposed in this study consists of a total of five steps. The first step is to identify the industrial size of the target products and services, related policies, and regulatory issues. In the second stage, regulatory issues are discovered through review of regulatory improvement items for each stage of commercialization (planning, production, commercialization). In the next step, factors related to regulatory compliance costs are derived and costs incurred for existing regulatory compliance are calculated. In the fourth stage, an alternative is prepared by gathering opinions of the relevant industry and experts in the field, and the necessity, validity, and adequacy of the alternative are reviewed. Finally, in the final stage, the adopted alternatives are formulated so that they can be applied to the legislation, and the alternatives are reviewed by legal experts. The implications of this study are summarized as follows. From a theoretical point of view, it is meaningful in that it clearly presents a series of procedures for regulatory impact analysis as a framework. Although previous studies mainly discussed the importance and necessity of regulatory impact analysis, this study presented a systematic framework in consideration of the various factors required for regulatory impact analysis suggested by prior studies. From a practical point of view, this study has significance in that it was applied to actual regulatory issues based on the regulatory impact analysis framework proposed above. The results of this study show that proposals related to regulatory issues were submitted to government departments and finally the current law was revised, suggesting that the framework proposed in this study can be an effective way to resolve regulatory issues. It is expected that the regulatory impact analysis framework proposed in this study will be a meaningful guideline for technology policy researchers and policy makers in the future.

산업의 경쟁력을 강화하기 위해서는, 새로운 기술의 개발 및 사업화와 함께 관련된 규제·애로를 발굴하고, 적기(適期)에 대응하는 것이 매우 중요한 요소로 작용한다. 현 정부에서는 이러한 산업적 변화에 대응하여 신산업에 대한 투자 확대와 함께 해당 산업 분야에 적용되고 있는 기존 규제메커니즘의 개혁을 추진하고 있다. 이러한 정부 정책방향에 맞춰, 본 연구는 신산업 분야에서 발생될 규제이슈를 선제적으로 예측하기 위해, 신제품 및 서비스의 시장진출에 있어서 걸림돌이 되는 기존 규제 제도를 발굴하고, 적정성 평가 및 개선방안을 마련하기 위한 규제영향분석 체계를 구축하고자 하였다. 그 결과로, 본 연구에서는 규제영향분석 프레임워크를 제시하였으며, 실제 규제이슈 사례를 적용하여, 분석하고 개선안을 도출하는 전반적인 과정을 보여주고자 하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 '18년도에 정부에서 집중적으로 투자를 진행했던 융합 신산업 분야의 제품 및 서비스를 대상으로 하여, 기획(R&D)단계부터 상용화 되기까지의 일련의 과정에서 발생 가능한 규제들을 사전적으로 검토하는 방법론을 제안하였다. 규제영향분석 프레임워크를 통해 도출된 규제 개선안은 소관 부처에 건의되어, 실제로 법령이 개정되었다는 점에서 연구의 실무적 및 정책적인 시사점을 제시할 수 있으며, 본 연구에서 개발한 규제영향분석 프레임워크는 향후 신산업 분야에서 나타날 수 있는 규제 이슈들을 해결하는 것에 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 예상한다.

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Acknowledgement

2021년도 산업통상자원부 "산업융합문화기반조성 및 산업융합촉진 옴부즈만 운영" 사업의 재원으로 수행된 연구임.

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