Turnaround of Korean IT Venture firms by u-Korea

u-Korea를 통한 한국 IT벤처의 활성화 방안

  • Hwang Doo-Hee (Institute for Technological Innovation(ITI), School of Business, Sejong University) ;
  • Lee Jong-Min (Institute for Technological Innovation(ITI), School of Business, Sejong University) ;
  • Chung Sun-Yang (Institute for Technological Innovation(ITI), School of Business, Sejong University)
  • 황두희 (세종대학교 기술혁신연구소) ;
  • 이종민 (세종대학교 기술혁신연구소) ;
  • 정선양 (세종대학교 기술혁신연구소)
  • Published : 2005.05.01

Abstract

After the IMF jurisdiction period, the Korean economy experienced a venture boom. Korean venture enterprises had been recognized that high profitable and high technology capacity based. These ventures also have contributed to national added value tolerably. In particular, Korean information technology (IT) venture companies got away the order of economy concentrated big companies, which were taken the opportunity of new economy to make suggestion of the future courses and to open an e-Korea era. However, IT ventures firms or dotcom enterprises have had difficulties through sinking down their bubbles and slumping technology sector from the first half of the 2000. In consideration of Korea IT venture companies' conditions, Korean government introduce new national vision in order to go ahead of intelligence based society form knowledge based. Korea is planning new investment to meet with the challenge of globalization proactively by national band named u-Korea. As following a step in IT infrastructure, it will give Korean IT ventures new demand creative technologies and services by new technological windows of opportunity. This situation is expected that will become an economic take-off. This paper will look for the way to stimulate Korean IT ventures' competence and present new frontier of IT ventures turnaround.

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