• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.28 no.12 s.138
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• pp.1554-1561
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• 2004

In the U.S., outdoor enthusiasts such as golfers have been focused on skin cancer prevention practices since their outdoor activities lead to extensive sun exposure during peak sun hours. The purposes of this study were to investigate golfers current sun protection behaviors and five attributes and their impacts on the intention to adopt UV specialized clothing based on Rogers' theory. UV specialized clothing as a preventive innovation is related to sun protection behaviors. However, there has been little effort to explain the intention to adopt a preventive innovation regarding health-related practices. With a convenience sampling method, a total of 158 useful questionnaires were collected. Ninety one percent were male golfers, and their age ranged from 16 to 80 years old(mean age=30 years). About $25\%$ reported to practice sun protection behaviors. About $70\%$ disagreed on the relative advantage, compatibility, observability, and triability of UV specialized shirts and reported the low intention to purchase it. Current sun protection behaviors and five attribute variables were entered in the multiple regression equation to explain the dependent variable of intention to adopt the innovation. Triability was the best predictor of the intention to adopt UV specialized shirts, followed by current sun protection behaviors, compatibility, and relative advantage. With four predictors, $45\%$ of the variance of intention to adopt was explained. The present study provides how the golfers current sun protection behaviors play important roles in explaining the intention to adopt the preventive innovation. Physical and functional features of UV specialized clothing were also significantly associated with their intentions to adopt it.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.145-152
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• 2018

This study was conducted to review whether there is a difference in the audience effect of advertisements of IoT products across different levels of sensory innovativeness. For the study, a total of 128 male and female university students and three advertisements of IoT products were selected. The study findings show that consumers with a higher tendency in purusing sensory innovativeness are more likely to rate more positively the perceived usefulness of the product and the attitude towards the product as shown in the advertisement. This finding is meaningful in that it was concluded from an empirical study at a time when studies on advertisements of IoT products are lacking. The study is also expected to provide beneficial insights into effective execution of advertisements of new technologies and establishment of marketing strategies. Follow-up studies that take into account a wider range of variables representing sensory innovativeness in consumers are suggested.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.107-120
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• 2024

To study the relationship between various information sources and first-to-market product innovation, this research examined how the internal and external information sources relate to first-to-market product innovation and how government regulations (economic, social and administrative) affect first-to-market product innovations, applying the perspective of Institutional Theory. For the analysis, variables used were first-to-market product innovation, internal and external information sources, and economic, social, and administrative regulations. This study was conducted based on survey data from the Korean Innovation Survey 2020 by the Science and Technology Policy Institute of Korea (STEPI). The data analyzed included small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing industry, and a total of 586 firms were used from 2017 to 2019. By analyzing the internal and external information source and government regulations that have been relatively underexplored in previous research, this study suggests new directions and provides practical and managerial implications based on the results.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.65-79
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• 2024

This study analyzed the failure cases of new products for relative benefits among various factors related to the characteristics of innovation, which is an important factor in the consumer persuasion process among Rogers (1995)'s innovation diffusion theory. This is because relative profits are the most influential factor in consumers' intention to adopt among the characteristics of various innovative products (Holak and Lenmann, 1990). As a result of analyzing the failure cases of new products of six companies, these products lacked relative profits for existing products in common. Relative profits are factors that are measured in the economic sense or are measured by social advantages, convenience, and satisfaction, and are the most important factors compared to other factors such as suitability, complexity, observability, and applicability. In the end, it was found that relative profits compared to existing products are an important success factor in persuading consumers of new products.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.6 no.2 s.12
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• pp.1-44
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• 2006

This paper aims to analyse post catch-up innovation activities of Korean firms. Traditional approach focused on incremental innovation through fast catch-up process. Recently, Korean firms present new patterns of innovation activities. It includes the development of state-of-the-art frontier products in capital intensive manufacturing sector, the achievement of architectural innovation through adopting newly developed components and the creation of new market based on the basic technological capabilities. This paper attempts to formulate conceptual framework for analysing post catch-up innovation activities and to analyse stylized facts of post catch-up activities based on the case studies on technology based small and medium Korean firms.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.2
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• pp.117-132
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• 1998

서비스 산업에 있어서 유통이라는 것은 서비스가 제공되는 접점으로 정교한 분석과 체계적인 연구가 이뤄져야 한다. 하지만 서비스 제품의 유통채널 전략에 대해서는 중요성을 인식하면서도 지금까지 그에 대한 연구와 관심은 미흡한 실정이다. 서비스 기업이 점점 더 경쟁이 치열해 지는 경쟁적 시장상황하에서 경영혁신과 서비스 제품의 유통혁신 전략에 대수술을 추진하고 있으나 그 내용을 보면 고객지향적인 발상과는 괴리가 있다는 점에서 더욱 심각하다고 생각할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 서비스 기업이 유통채널 전략을 수립하고 실시해 가는 과정에 있어서 고려할 사항과 어떤 부분에서 메이커와의 이질적인 특징을 보이고 있는가를 분석하고 그에 대한 지침을 제시하였다. 서비스 제품의 고유의 특성(무형성, 동시성, 소멸성 등)들은, 첫째 그 유통채널 구조를 독특한 것으로 만들며, 둘째 유통채널 기능에 특징적인 것을 초래하게 하며, 섯째 유통채널의 설정은 유통채널의 설계와 유통채널의 선택이라는 두 가지 과정을 거쳐서 이뤄지며, 넷째 이러한 과정을 거쳐 유통채널을 선택하고 관리하도록 만들고 있다. 따라서 서비스 제품에 대한 제공 배달의 유통채널에 있어서는 서비스 제품에 대한 수요와 공급의 조정이나 그 제공 배달시점에서 품질의 유지향상에 관한 관리를 해 갈 필요가 있다. 또한 중간관리자에 대한 관리는 파워를 행사하거나 통제가 어려워 관리가 곤란하다고 볼 수 있으나 커미션, 수수료 등의 제공이나 딜러핼프 등을 강화함으로 극복해 나갈 수 있겠다. 결론적으로 서비스 기업이 유통채널 전략을 수립하여 실시해 갈 때에는 상술한 바와 같이 채널의 구조나 기능, 채널관리 등의 측면에서 메이커에서는 볼 수 없는 특징적인 적이 존재하므로 그 독자적인 유통채널 전략을 전개해 갈 필요가 있다고 생각한다.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.768-787
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• 2009

This paper focuses to identify and analyze the influence of the perceived risk and innovation adoption of the new products in the bio-industry. After a comprehensive literature review, we identified factors, such as perceived risks, perceived benefits, trust, fear of the unknown, innate innovativeness, and domain-specific innovativeness. An empirical result points that perceived benefits and domain-specific innovativeness have positive effect to the consumer's purchase intention, while trust and fear of the unknown don't have significant effect.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.41-52
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• 2011

This paper alms to examine the impact of R&D organization culture to Technology Innovation in Small and Medium Enterprises. Hypotheses were tested by surveying 250 employees at R&D Gumi Industrial Complex. We conducted exploratory factor analysis for four constructs (diversity, autonomy, connectivity and flexibility) using oblique rotation method that did not assume independence among the factors and main factors of organizational culture in R&D organization were grouped together by four factors. The results of this study are as followings; First, three factors of R&D organizational culture had a significant positive effect on the product innovation and except autonomy. Second, two factors of R&D organizational culture had a significant positive effect on the process innovation except autonomy and flexibility. it is shown reliable criterion to effective organizational management for successful Technology Innovation in small and medium enterprises.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.120-123
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• 2006

디지털기술의 발달로 인하여 통신 ${\cdot}$ 방송 ${\cdot}$ 정보기기의 융합의 확산은 관련 기업들로 하여금 향후시장을 석권할 다양한 디지털 컨버전스 제품을 경쟁자보다 먼저 개발함으로써 주도권을 확보하기 위한 치열한 경쟁을 전개하게하고 있다. 그러나 많은 디지털 컨버전스 제품들은 캐즘을 넘어 주류시장에 성공적으로 진입하지 못하고 시장에서 조기에 사라져 버리는 실패를 경험하고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 컨버전스 제품의 개념과 특성을 바탕으로 디지털 컨버전스 제품의 확산에 영향을 줄 소비자의 구매영향 요인들을 도출하고, 이들 디지털 컨버전스 제품의 구매영향 요인들이 소비자의 혁신성에 따라 어떤 차이를 보이고 있는가를 검정하여 디지털 컨버전스 제품이 캐즘을 극복하여 효과적으로 확산되게 하기 위한 전략적 시사점을 도출하고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.935-949
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• 2014

Today, companies are facing business environments that are changing rapidly compared to the business environments of the past. These rapid changes can be observed in areas such as technology and market structure. To compete in rapidly changing business environments, companies are consistently releasing new innovative products to meet consumers' satisfaction. However, compared to the products that have already been successful in the past, innovative products have higher uncertainty in terms of meeting consumer's technical and emotional needs. Therefore, marketers of the companies put lots of efforts to reduce the risks of new innovative products' failure. In this study, we conducted 2(process simulation / outcome simulation) ${\times}2$ (hedonic / utilitarian) experiment to analyze the effect of mental simulation and product type on innovative new product evaluation. The results of this study are following. In process simulation, evaluation of utilitarian innovative new product was higher, but hedonic innovation showed higher evaluation in the outcome simulation. Based on research result, we recommend proper application of mental simulation.