• Proceedings of the Technology Innovation Conference
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• 2005.02a
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• pp.22-41
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 기업의 기술혁신활동 결정요인을 과학기술정책연구원이 발표한 KIS(Korean Innovation Survey) 2002를 활용하여 분석하였다. 특히 혁신활동에 있어서 기업규모와 네트워크의 역할에 초점을 맞추었다. 기술혁신활동을 제품혁신, 제품개선, 그리고 공정혁신으로 구분하였으며, 기술혁신활동의 결정요인으로 이윤율, 수출비율, 해외지분, 기업연령, 시장집중도, R&D활동 착수여부, 그리고 산업별 R&D집약도 등이 추가로 고려되었다. 분석된 표본은 제조업에 속한 1,124개 기업으로 정성적 분석방법인 로지스틱 회귀모형(logistic regression)을 사용하였다. 분석결과, 첫째 기업의 기술혁신활동 결정요인은 혁신유형에 따라서 다르게 분석되었다. 예를 들어, 기업규모와 기술혁신활동에 관한 슘페터 가설은 제품혁신에서는 성립하지 않는 것으로 나타났으나. 제품개선 및 공정혁신에 대해서는 성립하는 것으로 분석되었다. 둘째, 예측한 대로 소기업과 대기업간 기술혁신활동의 결정요인에 있어서 많은 차이점이 발견되었고, 이러한 차이는 제품혁신과 공정혁신에서 현격하게 나타났다. 셋째, 기업규모 및 혁신유형에 관계없이 외부적 네트워크는 기술혁신활동에 대해 정(正)(+)의 유의한 효과를 나타내어, 혁신활동에서 협력의 중요성을 확인해 주었다. 그러나 협력대상별 네트워크효과는 기업규모와 혁신유형에 따라서 많은 차이점을 보여주었다.

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.201-225
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• 2012

Developing new technologies and launching new products require a huge sum of money for Research and Development, and there is also market uncertainty. Comparing to advanced countries' companies, Korea's exporting companies have less investment cost in size for R&D and insufficient technology assets accumulated. Therefore, through the open innovation, they should use external technology and enhance the efficiency of the relatively little R&D investment. This paper draws the factors influencing the innovations of Korea's exporting companies, and then it analyses how each innovation influences export performance. First, innovations are devided into two; closed and open innovation. Multiple regression analysis has been done, considering influence factors of innovation such as company's characteristics factors, research's characteristics factors and products characteristics factors to be independent variables, and export performance to be a dependent variable. It shows that firm size and new products launching period have positive effects on each innovation, but research capability and research performance have positive effects only on closed innovation. And open innovation has positive effects on export performance, but closed innovation doesn't have.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.177-205
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• 2022

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have strong incentives to engage in open innovation to enhance innovation efficiency and effectiveness due to their 'liability of smallness.' Previous research examined the performance effects of various open innovation practices, but whether coupled open innovation practices positively affect SMEs' firm performance is somewhat controversial. To resolve the issue, this study examined the effects of coupled open innovation activities on SMEs' firm performance using Heckman's two stage model to control endogeneity of the firms' self-selection bias in open innovation engagement. This study used the Korean Innovation Survey (KIS) 2020 collected by the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI), and tested the effects of SMEs' coupled open innovation activities, R&D and non-R&D cooperation, on their innovative and financial performance indicators. The results showed that SMEs' R&D cooperation positively affects the new-to-market (NTM) product innovation only. Moreover, SMEs' non-R&D cooperation has positive effects on the product innovation, business process innovation, new-to-the-market product innovation, and new-to-firm (NTF) product innovation. However, the results showed that both R&D and non-R&D innovation cooperation activities have no significant effects on SMEs' financial performance indicators. This study contributes to research on SMEs' open innovation and provides insights for SMEs' managers and policymakers.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.349-371
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• 2007

본 논문은 중소기업의 기술혁신 활동에 대한 세 개의 독립적인 조사-광운대학교의 중소기업 기술수요조사, STEPI의 기술혁신활동조사, 중소기업청의 기술통계조사-를 활용하여 혁신형 중소기업과 일반 중소기업의 혁신 역량을 비교해 보았다. 이는 현행 벤처 및 이노비즈 인증 제도의 효과성을 평가해 보고 개선방안을 도출하기 위함이다. 분석결과 중기청의 기술 통계조사를 제외하고는 혁신형 증소기업과 일반 중소기업 간 혁신활동 차이가 존재하지 않았으며, 이는 혁신형 중소기업 발굴 및 인증시스템이 혁신적인 중소기업들을 선별해 내는데 한계가 있음을 의미한다. 연구결과를 토대로 향후 벤처 및 이노비즈 기업 발굴 육성 정책의 개선방안을 논의하였다.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.75-92
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to analyze whether innovation activities of logistics firms affect innovation performance and service quality improvement and whether innovation performance and service quality as a result of innovation activities affect these firm's business performance. First, I undertake a review of previous studies and theories related to innovation activity and innovation performance. Additionally, previous studies on improvement of service quality along through innovation performance were analyzed. Based on this, I set up a research structure and hypotheses. To this end, I used the workplace panel survey data of the Korea Labor Institute(KLI) and used a total of 88 samples. I use the Partial Least Square(PLS) approach to structural equation modeling. The results of the empirical analysis show that innovation activities of logistics firms have a positive effect on innovation performance and service quality improvement, and innovation performance and service quality have a positive effect on financial performance. Evidently, innovation activities bring a clear competitive advantage to the logistics firms and improve their service quality. This implies the ability of logistics firms to survive amidst competition while getting a competitive edge.

• The Optical Journal
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• s.110
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• pp.70-72
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• 2007

외국 기술을 모방하여 그 궤적을 따라가는 추격형 기술혁신모델의 한계가 노정되면서 새로운 기술혁신모델의 필요성이 증대하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 모방에 의거한 추격형 혁신활동을 넘어서는 탈추격형(post catch-up)기술혁신활동의 특성을 조감하는 작업을 수행했다. 특히 분석대상을 중소기업에 맞추어져 이들의 탈추격형 혁신활동 사례를 살펴보았다. 기술집약형 중소기업의 혁신활동의 활성화는 그 자체가 대기업 중심의 한국혁신체제의 전환을 보여주는 의미 있는 현상이기 때문이다.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.28-49
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• 2019

This paper explores the characteristics of innovation activities in high growth firms that contribute to national and regional economic growth and job creation. The analysis is based on the 2016 KIS data to analyze the difference in innovation activities between high growth firms and general firms. The main results are as follows: First, high growth firms have a higher proportion of R&D personnel than general firms. Second, high growth firms are actively introducing product innovation, process innovation, and organizational innovation as compared to general firms. In the innovation activities related to product innovation and process innovation, there is no statistically significant difference between high growth companies and general companies except for external R&D. Third, High growth firms are more likely to cooperate with other technology partners than general firms. But, there is no statistically significant difference between high growth firms and general firms in the external knowledge search and the diversity of cooperating partners. Fourth, in terms of protecting innovation, high growth firms are more likely to use all kinds of innovation protection method, such as 'utilizing intellectual property rights', 'maintaining confidentiality', 'adopting complex design methods', 'market preemption ahead of competitors', and the most important means is the intellectual property rights. Fifth, government innovation policies that high growth firms chose as important are 'innovation subsidies and loans', 'acquirement, utilization and protection of intellectual property rights' and 'human resource support'.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.147-165
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• 2012

Recently, the theory of open innovation emerges as a new innovation paradigm. This paper aims to examine open innovation activities of SMEs. Many firms tend to search new knowledge from various external sources and to pursue to achieve innovation resources or knowledge of external innovators. Particularly, this paper focus on the process of external knowledge networking and open innovation occurred in the process of technology innovation. The data used in this study were those that had been collected for total 3,400 sample SMEs that had conducted R&D. and in-depth interviews were conducted with 14 SMEs located at Chungbuk-Technopark. Empirical findings can be summarized as follows; SMEs tend to search new knowledge from various external sources and to pursue to achieve innovation resources or knowledge of external innovators, because they have lack of innovation resources. therefore, the conducting of open innovation affected positively the innovation performance of SMEs. In addition, empirical findings also indicated that expanding flexibility of labor market enhances open innovation activities of SMEs.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.201-210
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• 2017

The purpose of this research was to figure out how technology management activities are needed to survive in a rapidly changing business environment and how technology management activities affect company performance. First, Hypothesis 1 was partially adopted that Technology management activities will have a positive influence on management outcomes. Second, Hypothesis 2 was partially adopted that Innovation activities of firms will have mediating effects on the relationship between technology management activities and management outcomes. If the research subjects are expanded nationwide and divided into manufacturing industry, non - manufacturing industry, small and medium enterprise and large enterprise, it will be meaningful from academic point of view and practical point of view.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.431-465
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• 2011

Focusing on open innovation which is regarded as an important framework for strengthening technological innovation capabilities, in this study empirical analysis is conducted on Korean manufacturing companies, particularly based on the survey results of 149 domestic manufacturing companies that carry out innovation activities in order to identify influence factors for open innovation activities. Analysis on the influence factors of open innovation activities categorized into characteristics of environment, firm-specific characteristics, and characteristics of institutions revealed that characteristics of environment in terms of the degree of market competition and technological changes influence outside-in open innovation activities. Such results suggest that companies respond to increased market competition or technological changes by promoting research and development (R&D) and maintaining or acquiring market competitiveness through introduction of external technology and utilization of external information by means of research collaboration, user innovation, and so on. In terms of firm-specific characteristics, outside-in open innovation activities are influence by R&D personnel, R&D investment, number of international business, export, and openness of corporate culture while inside-out open innovation activities are influenced by characteristics of international organization and CEO's capabilities. In order for companies to strengthen outside-in open innovation activities emphasis on research personnel, R&D input factors such as research funds are necessary whereas to increase inside-out open innovation activities organization solely responsible for international affairs should be established while the CEO needs to focus on open and cooperative entrepreneurship rather than internal technological innovation activities. In terms of characteristics of institutions, outside-in innovation activities are influenced by technological networking whereas inside-out innovation activities are influenced by networking for development of technology and the presence in industrial cluster. This means that the government needs to establish industrial clusters and try to expand technological networking to facilitate open innovation activities.