• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.199-229
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• 2013

S&T policy long treated as a sector policy is now solidifying its position as an infrastructure innovation policy that forms the foundation for many different policies. There is a growing need for enhancing the linkage and integration between policies by strengthening planning and coordination functions of the government organizations in charge of innovation policy. The major countries including Japan, U.S., Finland elevated planning and coordination roles and emphasized the interaction between S&T-society and innovation governance in response to emergence of the third-generation innovation policy. This study deal with several issues related STI governance from the post-catchup innovation and holistic innovation policy and examine arguments on governance design. And then new schemes and alternatives of 1)governance design for sustainability, 2)design of policy coordination and integration mechanism, 3)reorganization of S&T administration system will be discussed.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.1-30
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• 2018

This study examines the major changes of research about science and technology administrative system and innovation governance, and suggests future direction through critical review. The subjects of the analysis are papers of such as Korean Public Administration Review, Journal of Technology Innovation and policy reports and government documents published by national research institutes. As a result of the analysis, the research itself has evolved from the part of the government organization to the unique field and main focused historical, normative, comparative analysis and institutional approach. In addition, coordination and integration of science and technology policies have been regarded as important issues in research, and innovation system (NIS) and governance perspectives have begun to be reflected in research. However, it reveals some issues such as small government theory vs big government theory, governance theory vs control tower theory, and shows limitations in problem definition and solution inconsistency, and lack of grand and detailed discourse. Future challenges include the pursuit of evolutionary rationality, the pursuit of diversity in multidimensional research and methods, development of korean policy theory and securing universality.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.183-187
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• 2007

During the recent decades in democratic and industrialized countries, government policies for governing technological innovation and risks to environment and human health have undergone significant changes. The shift from a top-down legislative approach to a more inclusive and deliberative atmosphere is, putatively the most prominent change. Such a move is often described as a move from government to governance. In the governance of technology and risk, public engagement has been a major strategy in technology decision-making process. This article aims to look into the changes in the procedural modes of technology decision-making process. It discusses the main viewpoints that have been placed on the basis of such a move. Also, it further relates the changes in local decision-making process to science and technology decision-making at global level. It argues that the democratic and reflexive trends in local science and technology decision-making will be the basis upon which to shape and respond to global governance system: while international decision-making process would require accountability in integrating different values and rationalities, such accountability may be sustained and reinforced depending on the robustness of the local decisions and social choices.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.135-162
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• 2015

The purpose of this article is to reinterpret the existing innovation policy with 'the societal innovation policy' framework. It is looking into characteristics of societal innovation policy and the prospects for socio-technical systems transition and citizen participation are discussed. After the discussion, new interpretation of innovation policy elements will be dealt with lenses of societal innovation policy. It sheds new light on the key elements of innovation policy, such as Innovation policy governance, industrial innovation policy, regional innovation policy, and infrastructure policy and suggests direction of policy improvements from societal innovation policy perspectives. This will be an opportunity to reinterpret the existing innovation policy measures and to approach to science technology innovation policy for system transition with participatory perspective.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.334-346
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• 2014

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.827-843
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• 2017

민군기술협력사업은 민과 군의 공동활용 기술개발 및 기술의 상호이전을 추진하는 사업으로, 민군기술의 융합을 바탕으로 과학기술을 효과적으로 획득하고 활용하기 위한 국가정책이다. 1998년 이후 현재까지 정부주도의 다양한 민군기술협력사업 진흥정책이 시행되었으나, 일관성있는 범 부처자원의 추진체계 및 위원회와 참여기관간의 상호협력 부족으로 그 효과가 극대화되지 못하고 있어 민군기술협력사업의 효율적인 정책 추진 방안에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 정부의 기본계획에 대해 각 수립 시기별로 민군기술협력 거버넌스 변화에 따른 민군기술협력사업의 연구 성과와 민군 기술의 상호 영향성과 문제점을 확인하고, 이를 기반으로 거버넌스에 의한 민군기술협력 사업의 활성화 영향에 대해 분석하였다. 향후 민군기술협력의 시너지 개선을 위하여, 민군기술협력 사업의 정책 주체인 정부부처-위원회-전문가집단 관계구조의 발전 방향에 대해 추가 연구할 예정이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.479-493
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• 2016

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.101-152
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• 2018

This study discusses the research trends in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) which recently emerged as the central concept among international innovation policy circles. In particular, we attend to the conceptual diversity of RRI, showing that each trend emphasizes different elements of RRI and reflects the context in which the concept has emerged. The first trend centers on research on governing emerging technologies which has been developed from the tradition of technology assessment and ELSI. The second trend has been closely related to the innovation policy efforts to take up the social challenge driven innovation as a new driving force for innovations. The third involves the attempts to operationalize the concept of RRI to evaluate whether the vision of RRI has been successfully incorporated in the actual innovation practices. We also insist that recent Korean R&D policies which emphasize social responsibility of science and technology include essential elements of RRI, although they do not use the term RRI. Finally, we discuss policy implications of discourse over RRI on such innovation policies.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.241-249
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• 2017

Gender innovation refers to the act of producing more trustworthy science and technology based on gender analysis in conducting and development. Science and technology have been considered to be irrelevant to gender and gender analysis. Science and technology lost opportunity to market and sometimes caused massive losses due to the ignorance of gender and the concept of gender differences. Despite importance in the field of science and technology, the reason why gender innovation does not take place is the lack of woman science in science and technology. Further, the promotion of female scientists policy bas been pursued by the government is one of the reasons. The government has been forcibly carried out without considering 'performanceism' spreading in the scientific and technological fields. This research argues that scientific research brings gender perspective back into all the level of research conduct. In order to improve gender ignorance in science and technology, gender sensitive education should be provided to scientists. Also, gender governance and women's committee for gender analysis should be established to adopt gender analysis in scientific research.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.17-45
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• 2017

This article reviews studies on the societal challenge and technological innovation. Technological innovation in response to social problems is a relatively recent topic of Innovation Studies. Socially-oriented innovations and policies are different in terms of the goals, innovation processes, and ecosystems when compared with industrial innovation. This study examines the existing research that discusses science and technology innovation from the viewpoint of solving societal problems and discusses the direction of future research. This paper presents major research issues on the characteristics of innovation in societal problem solving, innovation governance, roles and ecosystem of innovators, and relationship between societal problem solving policies and other policies.