• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.41-79
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• 2017

The fourth industrial revolution, which is all the rage in recent years in South Korea, comes from Klaus Schwab's book. Schwab claims that recent rapid technological innovation has inevitably determined the future of our society, and regulations on related policies need to be relaxed. The debate on the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the Korean society is also centered on deregulation policies. In particular, it is strongly argued that personal data protection regulation should be relaxed in a big data environments. The Science and technology studies has long criticized technological determinism. The future of technology can be changed by the will of regulatory authorities and the intervention of civil society. In this article, the author examines various discussions at home and abroad around the deregulation of data protection, including de-identification of personal data. Through this, the author criticizes the way of accepting the fourth industrial revolution theory, and draw its implications for the Korean society.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.199-218
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• 2010

When assessing environmental or other regulatory programs, economists and other policy analysts have traditionally used the approach that consists of comparing the benefits from regulation with the costs that must be borne to capture these benefits. The vast majority of economic analysis of regulation was based upon the assumption that regulations increase production costs. Porter had disputed this seemingly straightforward claim. In his view, economists had failed to incorporate the capacity of stringent regulations to induce innovation into their analysis. However, at the same time, the hypothesis had been criticized by economists. This study analyzed the determinants of innovation performances as well as activities of small and medium manufacturers, based on a recently held survey among mainly manufacturing SMEs in Korea. In particular, this study took the level of innovation activities, the strength of environmental regulations, and moreover the impediment that the company went through as factors. In addition, the characteristics of innovative SMEs were compared with the other counterparts. The empirical analysis revealed that the level of environmental awareness, existence of innovative activities, characteristics of firms, and moreover the innovation types are the most important determinants of SMEs’ innovation performance both in technology as well as in economic perspective.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.6-13
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• 2016

한국의 금융산업은 정부주도적 규제환경 하에서 핀테크라는 새로운 국면을 맞이하고 있다. 핀테크 산업의 조망은 정부규제와 IT기술이 내포한 비즈니스 혁신성을 함께 고려함으로서 비금융사업자의 진입, 규제 공급 확대 등 시장의 변화와 필요를 설명할 수 있다. 이러한 관점에서 한국 시장에 출시 사례가 많은 간편결제 서비스를 중심으로 살펴본다. 이와 함께 2015년 일련의 규제환경 변화를 살펴보고 이후 시장동향과 전망을 논의해 본다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.23-23
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• 1998

1980년대 이후 계속된 디지털 기술의 발전과 영상처리 기술의 발전은 전통적으로 엄격히 분리 운영되어 온 통신과 방송의 융합화를 촉진하고 있으며, 기존의 미디어 질서를 근본적으로 변화시키고 있다. 이미 통신망과 방송망이 융합하여 하나의 망을 통해 방송서비스와 통신서비스를 동시 제공하는 것이 가능해지고 있으며, VOD, 인터넷방송, FM 방송전파를 통한 무선호출서비스 등 새로운 서비스가 등장하고 있다. 사업자측면에서는 통신사업자와 방송사업자가 상대영역에 진입하거나 M&A를 통해 양 분야의 서비스를 동시에 제공하는 사례가 증가되고 있다. 이에 따라 미국, 영국, 일본 등 선진국뿐만 아니라 EU 차원에서도 최근의 기술발전 추세와 산업계의 동향을 반영하여 통신사업자와 방송사업자간 상호진입 허용, 규제기구의 통합 등 기존의 규제제도를 전면적으로 재검토하고 있다. 미국의 1996년 통신법 개정, EU의 대체인프라스트럭쳐 자유화정책, 영국과 일본에서의 CATV망을 통한 통신서비스제공 허용 등이 그 대표적인 사례이다. 그러나 이러한 세계적인 흐름과 비교하여 볼 때 우리나라의 법/제도 정비 및 정책적 대응은 매우 미진한 상태이다. 현행법은 아직까지 통신망과 방송망간 융합, 사업자간 융합을 엄격히 규제하고 있으며, 서비스의 규제방식 등 통신·방송 융합시대에 대비한 규제제도 정비가 아직까지 미흡한 실정이다. 본 고에서는 통신·방송 융합의 배경과 전개과정, 국내외 융합추진 현황을 살펴보고, 통신·방송 융합 현상에 따른 규제제도상의 과제를 제시하고자 하였다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.133-145
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• 2018

This paper proposes a desirable regulatory measure for the rapidly growing shared economic platform. The development and innovation of digital technology is expected to create new services and new economic and industrial values, but it also raises concerns, challenges about social trust issues arising from conflicts of interest with existing industries. Although sharing economies also creates new forms of supply and demand and grows rapidly around the world with innovative trading methods, institutional limitations are still being exposed in the major cities in terms of conflicts with existing industrial values. In order to reduce the social costs associated with the regulatory process and reach the appropriate regulatory policy goal, this paper proposes a co-regulation approach considering the sharing economic characteristics.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.18-24
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• 2004

유무선 통신시장이 포화상태에 진입하면서 국내 통신시장 구조의 재편이 일어나고 있다. 1990년대 이후 추진된 신규사업자의 진입을 통한 경쟁 확대 정책이 마무리되고 이제는 망 경쟁보다는 서비스 기반 경쟁으로의 전환이 추진되고 있는 것이다. 그러나 서비스 기반경쟁은 기존 사업자의 망고도화 의욕을 약화시키고 신규사업자의 투자의욕 저하를 초래하는 등 부작용이 많기 때문에 충분한 보완대책이 필요하다. 이러한 관점에서 본 고에서는 우리보다 앞서 서비스 기반 경쟁을 시행하고 있는 네덜란드의 통신시장 및 규제환경을 분석하고 서비스 기반 경쟁의 문제점을 보완하기 위한 시사점을 도출해보고자 한다.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.85-99
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• 2020

This article analyzes the influence of sectoral system of innovation(i.e. technological regime, market demand, networks, and institution) on innovative performances(i.e. product-, process-, organizational-, marketing-, and environmental- innovation) in Korean environmental industry, conducting a multiple regression analysis based on survey data from 201 Korean environmental companies. As the results, product innovation is positively influenced by internal technology accumulation and market demand response, while not affected by external knowledge utilization, market competition, networks among market and non-market agents, government support and regulation. Process innovation is positively influenced by internal technology accumulation, networks among non-market agents and regulation, but not by external knowledge utilization, market demand response, market competition, networks among market agents, and government support. While organizational innovation is positively influenced by internal technology accumulation, external knowledge utilization and regulation, it is not affected by market demand response, market competition, networks among market and non-market agents, and government support. While marketing innovation is positively influenced by internal technology accumulation, networks among non-market agents, and government support, it is not affected by external knowledge utilization, market demand response, market competition, networks among market agents, and regulation. Environmental innovation is positively influenced by external knowledge utilization and regulation, but negatively influenced by market competition. It is not affected by internal technology accumulation, market demand response, networks among market and non-market agents, and government support. Such results suggests the following policy implications. First, it is necessary to expand the sphere of relating markets through the application of convergence technology, new regulations, and overseas markets. Second, reinforcing ecosystems among environmental market agents through demand-linked joint R&D should be revitalized. Third, it is needed to strengthen more supporting policies rather than regulation. This article has the limitation of using the survey data. And further researches on the environmental sectoral system of innovation structure itself will be tried.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2006.11b
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• pp.287-300
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• 2006

• Science & Technology Policy
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• v.9 no.3 s.120
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• pp.38-47
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• 1999

• Science & Technology Policy
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.32-43
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• 2008