pace-setting industry （景気・経済などを）先導する産業 ・Without such pace-setting industries as cell-phone [cellular phone, mobile(-phone)] business, Japan, like Korea, might have been agonizing in the depths of the depression 携帯電話のような先導産業がなければ、日本はどん底の不況にもがき苦しんでいたかもしれない