Title:Basic direction of the policy in industry of technical aids(1:Sphhere of technical aids and the size of the market)
Authors:Ken'ichi FUKUDA, Yoshikazu GOTO, Shunsuke YAMAMOTO(Medical and Welfare Equipment Industries Office, Machinery and Information Industries Bureau, Ministry of International Trade and Industry)
Proceedings of 12th Japanese Conference of Advancement of Rehabilitation Technology . Vol. 12, pp. 237-240 (August, 1997)
Keyword:the policy in industry of technical aids, the size of the market, the way of classification, coherence
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: Ken'ichi FUKUDA
Medical and Welfare Equipment Industries Office, Machinery and Information Industries Bureau, Ministry of International Trade and Industry:1-3-1, Kasumigaseki Chiyoda-City, Tokyo 100 JAPAN
Tel. +81-3-3501-1562


Abstract
We defined the range of welfare technical aids and supposed the size of market for future development of the policy in industry. First, we classified the core area and around area. Then, we used questionnaire together with hearing research to understand the size of market and filled former statistical data. The size of market on technical aids was 804 billion yen in 1995 and the growth from 1994 till 1995 was12.2%. On the other hand, the size of around area market was about 5%. From the results, we found it became considerable large scale. It will be necessary to cope with the tendency of welfare industry.