• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.1-19
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• 2019

This study presents a new method to evaluate patents by public R&D program using patent citation network analysis. I used forward citation, degree centrality, betweenness centrality and page rank as the dependent variables which represents the quality of patents. I used primary independent variable as a dummy of public R&D program and controlled patents characteristics, applicant characteristics, technological characteristics and year effect. The empirical result shows that the patents of public R&D program is superior to other patents in regard to the number of forward citation, the degree centrality, the betweenness centrality and the page rank. This empirical result implies that patents of public R&D program directly and effectively connects technologies. Also patents from public R&D program connects important technologies.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.613-625
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• 2016

The development of technology has changed the world drastically. Patent data analysis helps to understand modern technology trends and predict prospective future technology. In this paper, we analyze the patent citation network using the USPTO data between 1985 and 2012 to identify technology trends. We use network centrality measures that include a PageRank algorithm to find core technologies and identify groups of technology with similar properties with statistical network models.

• Proceedings of the Technology Innovation Conference
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.205-230
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• 2009

기술지식으로서의 특허가 과학지식으로서의 과학논문을 많이 인용하면 할수록 과학지식과 기술지식의 상호작용이 많다고 해석할 수 있고, 또한 인용까지의 평균시차가 짧으면 짧을수록 과학지식과 기술지식의 확산속도가 그만큼 빠른 것으로 해석할 수 있다. 과학논문과 특허를 대상으로 과학집약도가 높은 기술분야, 여러 학문분야를 가장 많이 인용하고 있는 기술분야, 그리고 여러 기술분야에서 가장 많이 인용되는 학문분야를 발견할 수 있다. 또한 하나의 특허가 다른 특허에 인용되는 관계를 통해 피인용특허의 기술분야와 인용특허의 산업분야에 대한 연계 매트릭스를 구성함으로써 기술지식이 파급 연계되는 산업분야를 확인할 수 있다. 여기에서는 이러한 과학기술 지식의 연계관계를 규명함으로써 어떤 유형의 지식이 기술혁신에 있어 가장 기초가 되는지, 어떤 기술 분야가 과학적 지식을 가장 역동적으로 활용하는지, 그리고 산업계의 요구와 가장 긴밀한 관계를 맺고 있는 학문분야는 어떤 분야인지를 분석하고자 한다.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.143-151
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• 2015

Technology convergence, recently accelerated in various technical fields, can be achieved by discovering a new technology while exchanging the knowledge among the different technologies and utilizing such knowledge into the existing fields of technology. In particular, technology convergence actively occurs in knowledge-intensive ICT. However, limited research is available on the routes of ICT technical knowledge diffusion because of insufficient data. Therefore, this study built a database on the citations of patent data applied from 2006 to 2013 in Korea and their cited patents. We drew a patent citation network, a technology citation network and an applicant citation network, after which we analyzed the routes of technical knowledge diffusion. Results showed that ICT played a leading role in knowledge citation among technologies and that such diffusion took a shorter time in technology citation when it occurred more frequently and when the citation occurred between ICTs. In addition, most of the ICT showed a strong citation relationship with the other ICTs or such technologies in the field of physics or electricity, whereas electric elements (H01) showed various citation relationships with technologies other than ICT. Furthermore, we found a strong technology diffusion relationship between domestic corporations and domestic natural persons. National organizations often cited the patents of other applicants, whereas the patents of domestic corporations were actively cited between domestic corporations or by other applicants. Thus, this study is expected to be useful in measuring the performance of technologies, including the diffusion to other technologies. As well as in considering the routes of technical knowledge diffusion in Korea.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.21-37
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• 2013

Recently, as the advent of the knowledge-based society, there are more people getting interested in the intellectual property. Especially, the ICT companies leading the high-tech industry are working hard to strive for systematic management of intellectual property. As we know, the patent information represents the intellectual capital of the company. Also now the quantitative analysis on the continuously accumulated patent information becomes possible. The analysis at various levels becomes also possible by utilizing the patent information, ranging from the patent level to the enterprise level, industrial level and country level. Through the patent information, we can identify the technology status and analyze the impact of the performance. We are also able to find out the flow of the knowledge through the network analysis. By that, we can not only identify the changes in technology, but also predict the direction of the future research. In the field using the network analysis there are two important analyses which utilize the patent citation information; citation indicator analysis utilizing the frequency of the citation and network analysis based on the citation relationships. Furthermore, this study analyzes whether there are any impacts between the size of the company and patent citation relationships. 74 S&P 500 registered companies that provide IT and communication services are selected for this study. In order to determine the relationship of patent citation between the companies, the patent citation in 2009 and 2010 is collected and sociomatrices which show the patent citation relationship between the companies are created. In addition, the companies' total assets are collected as an index of company size. The distance between companies is defined as the absolute value of the difference between the total assets. And simple differences are considered to be described as the hierarchy of the company. The QAP Correlation analysis and MR-QAP analysis is carried out by using the distance and hierarchy between companies, and also the sociomatrices that shows the patent citation in 2009 and 2010. Through the result of QAP Correlation analysis, the patent citation relationship between companies in the 2009's company's patent citation network and the 2010's company's patent citation network shows the highest correlation. In addition, positive correlation is shown in the patent citation relationships between companies and the distance between companies. This is because the patent citation relationship is increased when there is a difference of size between companies. Not only that, negative correlation is found through the analysis using the patent citation relationship between companies and the hierarchy between companies. Relatively it is indicated that there is a high evaluation about the patent of the higher tier companies influenced toward the lower tier companies. MR-QAP analysis is carried out as follow. The sociomatrix that is generated by using the year 2010 patent citation relationship is used as the dependent variable. Additionally the 2009's company's patent citation network and the distance and hierarchy networks between the companies are used as the independent variables. This study performed MR-QAP analysis to find the main factors influencing the patent citation relationship between the companies in 2010. The analysis results show that all independent variables have positively influenced the 2010's patent citation relationship between the companies. In particular, the 2009's patent citation relationship between the companies has the most significant impact on the 2010's, which means that there is consecutiveness regarding the patent citation relationships. Through the result of QAP correlation analysis and MR-QAP analysis, the patent citation relationship between companies is affected by the size of the companies. But the most significant impact is the patent citation relationships that had been done in the past. The reason why we need to maintain the patent citation relationship between companies is it might be important in the use of strategic aspect of the companies to look into relationships to share intellectual property between each other, also seen as an important auxiliary of the partner companies to cooperate with.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.127-139
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• 2013

With an advent of recent knowledge-based society, the interest in intellectual property has increased. Firms have tired to result in productive outcomes through continuous innovative activity. Especially, ICT firms which lead high-tech industry have tried to manage intellectual property more systematically. Firm's interest in the patent has increased in order to manage the innovative activity and Knowledge property. The patent involves not only simple information but also important values as information of technology, management and right. Moreover, as the patent has the detailed contents regarding technology development activity, it is regarded as valuable data. The patent which reflects technology spread and research outcomes and business performances are closely interrelated as the patent is considered as a significant the level of firm's innovation. As the patent information which represents companies' intellectual capital is accumulated continuously, it has become possible to do quantitative analysis. The advantages of patent in the related industry information and it's standardize information can be easily obtained. Through the patent, the flow of knowledge can be determined. The patent information can analyze in various levels from patent to nation. The patent information is used to analyze technical status and the effects on performance. The patent which has a high frequency of citation refers to having high technological values. Analyzing the patent information contains both citation index analysis using the number of citation and network analysis using citation relationship. Network analysis can provide the information on the flows of knowledge and technological changes, and it can show future research direction. Studies using the patent citation analysis vary academically and practically. For the citation index research, studies to analyze influential big patent has been conducted, and for the network analysis research, studies to find out the flows of technology in a certain industry has been conducted. Social network analysis is applied not only in the sociology, but also in a field of management consulting and company's knowledge management. Research of how the company's network position has an impact on business performances has been conducted from various aspects in a field of network analysis. Social network analysis can be based on the visual forms. Network indicators are available through the quantitative analysis. Social network analysis is used when analyzing outcomes in terms of the position of network. Social network analysis focuses largely on centrality and structural holes. Centrality indicates that actors having central positions among other actors have an advantage to exert stronger influence for exchange relationship. Degree centrality, betweenness centrality and closeness centrality are used for centrality analysis. Structural holes refer to an empty place in social structure and are defined as efficiency and constraints. This study stresses and analyzes firms' network in terms of the patent and how network characteristics have an influence on business performances. For the purpose of doing this, seventy-four ICT companies listed in S&P500 are chosen for the sample. UCINET6 is used to analyze the network structural characteristics such as outdegree centrality, betweenness centrality and efficiency. Then, regression analysis test is conducted to find out how these network characteristics are related to business performance. It is found that each network index has significant impacts on net income, i.e. business performance. However, it is found that efficiency is negatively associated with business performance. As the efficiency increases, net income decreases and it has a negative impact on business performances. Furthermore, it is shown that betweenness centrality solely has statistically significance for the multiple regression analysis with three network indexes. The patent citation network analysis shows the flows of knowledge between firms, and it can be expected to contribute to company's management strategies by analyzing company's network structural positions.

• Proceedings of the Technology Innovation Conference
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• 2004.02a
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• pp.178-201
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• 2004

경제의 패러다임이 지식의 확산과 공유가 경제 성장의 주요한 요소로 대두되는 지식기반경제로 변화하게 되고, 융합 기술(fusion technology)의 중요성에 대한 인식으로부터 학제간(inter-disciplinary) 연구나 기술개발이 활발해지면서, 각 산업이 타산업과 맺고 있는 특정한 연계구조에 대한 분석은 정부의 기술정책이나 기업의 기술전략 수립에 필수적인 것으로 받아들여지고 있다. 특히 산업간 지식흐름의 구조를 파악하는 것은 산업간 협력(collaboration)의 형태나 파급효과에 대한 분석뿐만 아니라 기술 혁신을 촉진하기위한 혁신 클러스터(innovative cluster) 형성의 기초를 제공하는 것이라 하겠다. 따라서 본 연구는 기술집약적 장비에 체화된 유형자원의 간접적 지식 확산이 아닌, 특허 인용의 명백한 지식 흐름을 활용하여 한국 제조업의 지식 흐름 구조를 분석하고 이를 토대로 클러스터를 나누는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위하여 특허 인용 정보가 존재하는 미국특허청(USPTO)의 자료를 이용하며, 여기에서 도출된 한국 특허의 인용관계를 통해 한국 제조업의 네트워크 및 클러스터를 생성하였다. 즉, 특허 분류를 산업 분류에 매칭(matching)시킴으로써, 특허의 인용관계를 각 특허가 속한 산업간의 지식흐름으로 변환하여 산업간 연계 구조를 파악하고 이를 토대로 한국 산업의 지식 클러스터를 생성함으로써 클러스터간 지식 흐름을 분석하고, 각 클러스터의 기술적 특성을 제시하였다. 본 연구는 한국 산업의 지식흐름을 미국특허청에 출원된 한국 특허를 활용하여 분석했다는 점에서 제기될 수 있는 해외 기술 시장으로의 전략적 차원의 출원에 의한 자료의 편중성문제와 지식흐름의 절대량이 아닌 상대량을 통해 클러스터링함으로써 발생될 수 있는 자료 활용의 한계점을 지니고 있다. 그러나 비체화 지식의 흐름을 특허인용관계를 통해 실증적으로 분석하고, 이를 통해 클러스터를 나누어 산업간 연계구조와 기간에 따른 변화 양상을 조명하며, 각 클러스터의 특성을 다양한 지표(indicators)로부터 설명했다는 데에서 의의를 찾을 수 있다. 본 연구의 결과는 기술혁신을 위한 국가 차원의 산업정책이나 기술개발과 관련한 기업의 기술전략에 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.83-93
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• 2016

In this paper, I study to determine the effect on patent applicants across the network characteristics of innovation in the ICT sector in Korea. For that, I use the Social Network Analysis(SNA) and the Negative Binomial Regression(NBR). The results about the innovation network in Korea ICT is very dense type. And the degree centrality and the closeness centrality had such a positive effect on innovation performance. Also, the efficiency had not reached a significant effect and the constraint was found to have a negative effect on innovation performance. In the future, based on these results, we need to plan a proper policy of the Korea Technology Innovation Policy.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.3210-3219
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• 2015

This study attempts to search for potential users of patents developed by public research institutes, emphasizing the importance of identifying potential users for successful technology marketing. On the basis of the theoretical argument that technological development show path-dependence, we analyzed patent citation network of a technology developed by a Korean public research institute to achieve the purpose of this research. The result shows that the potential users identified from our method are different from the institute's initial expectation. Therefore, we argue that the method using patent citation network is useful and effective for public research institutes' technology marketing. Lastly we suggest a new framework for technology marketing process in public research institutes.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.117-143
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• 2014

Tracing an evolutionary technological trajectory in the macroscopic viewpoint is useful for technology policy, but not for corporate technology and intellectual property strategy. Tackling this issue, recent bibliometric studies using patents and papers have made efforts to identify more specific and detailed technological trajectory. However, these studies cannot go beyond simple description of the past trajectory. Also, identification of technology fusion and evolution relies on experts judgments. We suggest a way of identifying microscopic evolutionary technological trajectories by combining patent citation network analysis with dynamic technology tree. Also, using new indicators of generality, diversity and novelty, we can detect key technologies that can be a starting point of next generation technology and derivative technology. HVDC(High Voltage DC transmission) system technology is exemplified.