• Korean small business review
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.103-122
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• 2020

This study investigates the research trends of SMEs and technological innovations in the last 40 years. Research topics and methodological trends were analyzed for 114 academic papers deals with technology innovation in SMEs. In terms of research subjects, there have been interested in the technology capability and technology accumulation of SMEs in the 1990s, but after the 2000s, research on external open innovation and innovation performance has increased. The empirical analysis studies using primary or secondary data were dominated since the 2000s. We suggest some future research directions, more systematic innovation processes in SMEs, the interactions between technology innovation and external environments, and advanced methodologies on SMEs' technology innovation studies.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.101-122
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• 2007

In this study, as the result of analyzing the relationship and influence between economic outcome and R&D supporting investment, the number of supporting subjects among the technological innovational areas of SMEs, it is as below. First, as the economic result of analyzing companies from the investment in R&D of technological innovational areas of minor companies, the number of supporting subjects and amount of R&D have relationship with increase of sales and export amount, employee reduction & the effect of new job creation shows positive correlation with the effect of import replacement. Second, as analyzing the influence of the investment in R&D has economic effect from of technological innovational minor companies. This is thought that the financial and R&D support increase a significant effect on economical, technical against SMEs.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.236-259
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• 2006

This paper empirically examines the relationship between a firm's external technology acquisition and in-house R&D in Korean manufacturing sectors. Using the technology innovation survey conducted by the Korean government in 2002, and developing a semi-structural empirical model, we find that the firm's in-house R&D and technology acquisition have a complementary relationship: A firm's technology acquisition increases in its in-house R&D. Moreover, government R&D funding and tax incentives have positive effects on the in-house R&D, while the existence of the failed projects encourage a firm to acquire more external technologies.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.85-108
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• 2011

Under Ford system, corporations sought to maximize the economies of scale by raising the production efficiency. It aims to lower the production cost by increasing the quantity of output. But in the era of market flux and uncertainty, however, such strategies can no longer be sustained. Replacing the structures of Ford system, Toyota was able to accelerate the pace of process innovation and product innovation. Related to this innovation is JIT, new model development, modularization. The firm's reliance on flexible production technology provides opportunities to expand her production basis to foreign countries successfully. The main objective of this paper is to explore the contribution of process innovation to profit-capital ratio. The model is estimated using a time-series data of 18 years from 1990 to 2007 of auto production industry in korea. An Implication of this estimation shows that process innovation explains a significant portion of profit-capital ratio.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.312-326
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• 2013

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.217-250
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• 1994

21세기까지 기술선진국(技術先進國)에 진입(進入)하기를 원하는 한국경제는 향후(向後) 기술(技術) 및 시장(市場) 불확실성(不確實性)이 큰 핵심기반기술(核心基盤技術)의 자립도(自立度)를 높여 나가야 할 입장에 있다. 네트워크의 활용(活用)은 이와 같은 기술 및 시장불확실성을 극복하는 유용한 방법일 뿐 아니라 WTO라는 새로운 교역질서하에서 더욱 중요해지는 기술정책(技術政策)의 주요수단(主要手段)이다. 본고(本稿)는 기술혁신네트워크를 통한 기술의 창출(創出) 및 확산과정(擴散過程)에 유의하면서 한국 기술혁신시스템을 장기전망(長期展望)하고 산업계(産業界), 학계(學界), 연구계(硏究界) 및 정부의 장기기술발전전략(長期技術發展戰略)을 도출하고 있다. 장기발전전략에 기반한 기술정책(技術政策)의 당면과제(當面課題)는 대학(大學), 공공연구기관(公共硏究機關), 중소기업(中小企業)의 기술혁신 기여도 향상을 위한 개혁과 제도개선으로 요약된다. 왜냐하면 국내의 연구기관, 대학, 중소기업 등의 기술적 기여가 부진하면 기업내(企業內) 세계분업(世界分業)을 전개하는 대기업(大企業)의 혁신활동이 국내경제(國內經濟)와 유리(遊離)되어 전개될 수 있기 때문이다. 대기업들이 해외연구개발거점(海外硏究開發據點)을 통하여 해외 연구자원을 활용하고 해외생산거점(海外生産據點)에서 생산된 소재, 부품의 역수입을 증대하는 전략에만 주력하게 되면 국내에 지식집약적(知識集約的)인 산업활동(産業活動)의 집적(集積)이 지연(遲延)된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.122-135
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• 2013

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.146-173
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• 2014

Extant studies have explained that firm's innovations including technological product and process innovations contribute to its competitive advantage and growth, thereby supporting competitiveness and growth of industry. These studies, however, have focused mainly on the role and effect of technological change that is primarily measured by the patent numbers and R&D intensity. Aside from these traditional streams, there has been growing interest on the impact by various dimensions of innovation including non-technological innovations. Apart from the discussions on the dimensions and scope of innovation, stages or processes of innovation also have been studied. Extant studies on innovation process model, however, has limited its interests in the structure of the transformation of knowledge. This study have established a comprehensive model embracing operational and financial performance to investigate the causal paths between innovation and firm performance. Using multi-level generalized linear model with path analysis, this study have found results as follows: First, the processes from innovative activities to innovation output and outcomes including operational and financial performance at firm level were verified. Secondly, the influence of innovation decreases gradually as the distance away from the direct outputs of the innovation increase in the direction of financial outcomes. Third, the effect of innovation on the sales growth rate is higher for small businesses than for medium-sized businesses. The effect of innovation on the profit rate, however, is significant only for medium-sized businesses. For large businesses, innovation has no positive significant impact on any financial performance at all. Fourth, Fourth, the appropriability of innovation has positive impacts on innovative performance, patent applications, and operational performance.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.1-34
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• 2017

It is almost impossible for firms to possess all of resources and capabilities needed to create technological innovations in modern competitive environment. This situation forces firms to conduct R&D collaboration. Therefore, this paper analyzes an effect of appropriability protecting knowledge exclusively on R&D collaboration and product innovation performance. In addition, we investigate how the governmental R&D support moderates and influences those relationships through empirical analysis. The results of moderated mediation show that the impact of appropriability on product innovation performance appears to be a common pattern in each conditional indirect effect of appropriability regardless of financial, direct, indirect R&D support of the government. The more governmental R&D supports increase over a certain level, the more conditional indirect effects of appropriability on product innovation performance increase through the vertical R&D collaboration. However, conditional indirect effects of appropriability through horizontal R&D collaboration are not significant in all levels of government R&D supports. If we utilize an analysis of moderated mediation by applying governmental R&D supports as a moderator, it is possible to analyze a significant strength of innovation policies and their performance. Therefore, this paper would make a contribution to an evolution of governmental R&D support and an effective formulation of innovation policy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.170-183
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• 2014