Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
- Volume 20 Issue 4
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- Pages.47-66
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- 2013
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- 1598-6284(pISSN)
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- 2508-1209(eISSN)
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An Empirical Study on Adoption of Open Technological Innovation for SMEs based on Information and Technology
국내 IT중소기업의 개방형 기술혁신 수용에 관한 실증연구
- Joung, Seok-In (ETRI)
- 정석인 (한국전자통신연구원)
- Received : 2013.11.13
- Accepted : 2013.12.13
- Published : 2013.12.31
Abstract
Recently, with the diffusion of a new paradigm named as the creative economy, the government's interests and efforts regarding support of SMEs' R&D have been concentrated. In particular, due to the dominant perception that the fundamental science and original technology from government-funded research institutes can further enhance the capabilities of SMEs' R&D, the importance of performance's diffusion on national R&D is further emphasized. In fact, the domestic SMEs don't have enough budget and workforce, so that all of self-contained technologies, product's competitiveness as well as the R&D capabilities, are very vulnerable, and thereby SMEs' commercialization is very likely to fail. For this end, SMEs need to adopt the concept of open innovation as the use of external R&D resources by licensing. In this study, we conducted a survey on a total of 286 domestic IT SMEs, and analyzed empirically to compare the degree of their acceptance on technological innovation between two groups divided by open/not-open innovation. As a result, we drew some of the key factors influencing the acceptance of the SMEs' open technological innovation, and found a variety of implications through them.
Keywords
- IT Industry;
- Small and medium enterprise;
- Open Innovation;
- Technological Innovation;
- Innovation Adoption;
- R&D