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The Next Wave in Display Innovation

  • Webster, Steven C.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.4-4
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    • 2008
  • The progress in flat panel displays over the last two decades has been astonishing. In just 20 years, the LCD-TV grew up from a 2-inch curiosity, to an industry that will sell about 120 million flat panel TV's this year, with viewing area up to 4000 times larger. That success is based on continuous innovation, especially in manufacturing processes. For the next decade to bring another doubling of the business, progress will need to continue in four major areas: Human factors, ecological impact, visual quality, and of course continued drive towards affordability. This talk will detail the technology advances that can allow this industry to meet those challenges. Human factors. Today, we adapt our lifestyle to our technology. People organize their offices, and their homes, around displays. We pass around mobile phones to share images, rather than experiencing them as a group. Billions of newspapers continue to be sold daily. Advances in flexible displays can lead to large portable displays. "New era projection" includes the handheld Pico Projectors that are already on the market, and will ultimately appear integrated in mobile phones the same way cameras do today. "Eco" impact. Today TV's are one of the top energy consumers in a U.S. home, and the fastest growing. Watching a large flat panel TV can cost twice as much as running a large refrigerator. With today's concern about energy consumption, regulations are starting to emerge worldwide to limit TV electrical use. Fortunately, good solutions exist in using light management films to eliminate bulbs, saving power without increasing cost. Going forward, LED backlights will drive another step downward. OLED displays might be the ultimate solution. Visual quality. The color of an LCD-TV is still often considered inferior to a far less expensive CRT. And almost all displays suffer from representing a three-dimensional world on a two dimensional surface. The technology to improve color is available today, and will likely move from premium sets into the mainstream as costs come down. 3D is now arriving in movie theaters worldwide, and that will drive up the demand for similar realistic images in home theaters. And the technology is emerging today for 3D representation to move beyond specialized applications into everyday use, on screens large and small. Affordability. The world takes cost-down miracles for granted in consumer electronics. Each of these other advances will be balanced with a drive for affordability, especially as the market grows in emerging countries. The other three challenges must be met without increasing cost. Putting this all together, the next few years will emphasize "eco friendly" designs, and enhanced images such as 3D. By 2013 we will start to see serious penetration by emissive technologies (OLED, high efficiency plasma, or other), with the "ultimate display" likely not in the market for a decade. Lots of opportunities for innovation remain ahead of us.

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A Study on the Development of Senior Care Industry -Focused on the business case analysis of Driving Miss Daisy®- (시니어 요양산업 발전 방안에 대한 탐색적 연구 -Driving Miss Daisy®의 비즈니스 사례분석을 중심으로-)

  • Ahn, Eun-Ju;Kim, Hyoung-Soo
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.515-525
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest implications for the development of the senior care industry in Korea and how to apply it to the Korean market. For this study, a case analysis study was conducted on the successful business model of 'Driving Miss Daisy®'. For the development of Korea's senior care industry, understanding of senior, establishing infrastructure for community care, and improving the treatment of professional personnel care should be preceded. In order to apply 'Driving Miss Daisy®' to the Korean market, it was suggested that it is necessary to reduce regulations, develop differentiated services, establish linkage systems with various service institutions in the community, establish cooperative models between large and small businesses and startups.

A Study on design management strategy for venture/small enterprises (중소벤처기업을 위한 디자인 경영 전략 -대전시 벤처·중소기업을 중심으로-)

  • Seo, yong-mo;Cheon, myung-hwan;Cho, seung-ock;Oh, chi-gyu;Song, han-wook;Roh, hwang-woo;chang, soo-deok
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.244-249
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    • 2009
  • At the 21th century management environment with the emotion and creativity, as design has recognized the core element of management strategy, the combination of design and management, design management, has been increased the importance worldwidely. In the rapid changing enterprise environment, the small or venture enterprises in flexible management environment than the large enterprise have advantage on management process. The design management has created the various field of knowledge in the integrated solution, the integrated approach methods of management are the effective operative process in the importance of design management. As CEOs in small/venture enterprise take part in the innovation of design management, a specialistes in recognition of specificity and design management are defined and created the design management process through the enterprise resource planning programs. With the understanding on the above situation, the purpose of this study is to suggest the design is strategically applied in the management level of Daejeon region small/venture enterprises and the recognition of design management as a strengthen the competitiveness.

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An Exploratory Study of Key Success Factors in Public R&D Institutions' Business Supporting Service -Focused on Ceramic Hidden Champion Project- (국가연구개발기관 기술사업화 종합지원사업 성공요인에 관한 탐색적 연구 -세라믹히든챔피언사업을 중심으로-)

  • Kwon, Kyung-Sup;Kim, Byeong-Jin;Ha, Kyu-Soo
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.225-232
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to explore the necessity of technology commercialization aiding service from government-supported R&D institutions and find key success factors for market performance improvement of business ventures and SMEs. For this aim, we researched relevant theories and KICET(Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology)'s "Ceramic Hidden Champion Supporting Project. As government-supported R&D institutions, KICET is not only providing its original main service which is technology advising and development, but also providing a full range of technology commercialization aiding service for business ventures including diagnosis, strategy planning, capital procurement, overseas marketing activity. Qualitative analysis based on relevant theories and meta-analysis framework suggest that such expansion of services is desirable for government-supported R&D institutions to increase market performance of business ventures and SMEs. To lead this business to success, we should develop effective management system and incentive system for external supporting companies and client companies. Also, coordination between team member's activities and budget procurement issue should be solved for further performance creation.

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Success and Failure Factors for Workout SMEs (워크아웃 중소기업의 성공과 실패 요인)

  • Lee, Byeong-Ho;Kim, Moon-Kyum;Kim, Soon-Choul
    • Korean small business review
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.23-42
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, it is analyzed that the financial factors of successful/unsuccessful companies in restructuring among Korean SMEs. For this purpose, the cases of 494 SMEs that had been subjected to workout programs due to financial distress between 2008-2014 were collected from A bank which is a SME financing bank, and had been subjected to logistic regression and t-test. And the sample cases are categorized into two groups, companies subject to external audit and the others, to provide more reliability. The result suggests; First, in all sample cases of SMEs, those are success factors for workout in connection with smaller total assets, lager sales amount, lower ratio of intangible assets, higher ratio of operating profit, lower ratio of short-term debt, higher ratio of long-term debt, and longer corporation history. Secondly, several factors have different influence on companies subject to external audit and the others. Lastly, the success factors for workout in Korean SMEs turned out to be different from those suggested in previous studies that are focused on large company. Some of the financial factors that led financially distressed firm to a successful restructuring showed the same results as large companies, but some of them were not related to them or even had the inverse influence on SMEs. This implies that SMEs have their distinctive success factors.

A Study on Supporting Small and Medium Enterprises for the Development of Offshore Wind Industry (해상풍력산업 발전을 위한 중소·중견 기업 지원 방안 연구)

  • Choi, Young-Moon;Choi, Jeongho
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.167-172
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    • 2021
  • In the situation where expectations for the growth potential of the domestic offshore wind market are increasing due to the bright growth prospect of the global offshore wind market and the motivated plan of the Korean government, domestic and foreign literature on the direction of offshore wind power generation are examined for the successful development of domestic offshore wind power, the introduction of offshore wind power is diagnosed, and improvement plans are presented for the wind power-related system being promoted by the government. In addition, practical support measures are suggested to foster related SMEs. The results of the study are as follows. First, as technology development is mainly focused on large corporations, the development capacity of small and medium manufacturing industry is very low. Therefore, it is necessary to establish and operate a core center led by government agencies to provide technical support with the initiative of national research institutes and large corporations, and universities and national research institutes should strengthen the independence of small and medium-sized enterprises through training and research and development of professional manpower. Second, as a result of the survey on the practical support plan of the company, it was found that there is a need for various support for technology development and commercialization of produced parts.

A Study on the Performance Evaluation of Machine Learning for Predicting the Number of Movie Audiences (영화 관객 수 예측을 위한 기계학습 기법의 성능 평가 연구)

  • Jeong, Chan-Mi;Min, Daiki
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.49-63
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    • 2020
  • The accurate prediction of box office in the early stage is crucial for film industry to make better managerial decision. With aims to improve the prediction performance, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate the use of machine learning methods. We tested both classification and regression based methods including k-NN, SVM and Random Forest. We first evaluate input variables, which show that reputation-related information generated during the first two-week period after release is significant. Prediction test results show that regression based methods provides lower prediction error, and Random Forest particularly outperforms other machine learning methods. Regression based method has better prediction power when films have small box office earnings. On the other hand, classification based method works better for predicting large box office earnings.

Regional Assessment of the Effect of the Win-Win Item Agreements (대형마트 상생품목제도 영향의 지역적 평가)

  • Yoo, Byong-Kook;Kim, Soon-Hong
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.13 no.10
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    • pp.93-99
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    • 2015
  • Purpose - It has been argued that the regulations restricting entry and opening hours of General Super Markets and Super Super Markets have not been as effective as expected. In contrast, the win-win item scheme that appeared recently has the advantage that it could raise the effectiveness of the system in that win-win items are in principle resigned on the basis of bilateral agreements. This study analyzes the win-win item agreement made between Homeplus at Hap-jung and small traditional markets to examine the practical effectiveness of the win-win item scheme. While existing literature studying the regulatory effects have concentrated on the restrictions around store entry or opening hours of large retailers, it can be said that there have been few empirical studies on the effect of win-win items agreement with large retailers. Research design, data, and methodology - Homeplus at Hap-jung made a win-win items agreement with nearby small traditional market traders in 2013. In accordance with this voluntary agreement, Homeplus started by limiting its sales to 15 win-win items. The survey was conducted through one-on-one interviews, April 14 to May 2, 2014, by a professional public opinion research agency. The interviews were targeted at small business retailers in the nearby traditional market. We divided the traditional markets near Homeplus at Hap-jung where the win-win item agreement was achieved into two groups, win-win item agreement markets and non win-win item agreement markets, to compare the performance difference between the two groups. Results - To determine the change in sales of the 15 win-win items, we examined the performance difference between the two groups using two criteria (compared with similar items, and compared to sales volume a year ago). The results show that the individual sales of win-win items in the win-win item agreement markets are more likely to increase than in the non win-win item agreement markets. Total sales volume of individual stores in the agreement markets also showed a more significant increase compared to a year ago than those in non win-win item agreement markets. Conclusions - Contrary to the existing retail regulations that have one-sided and uniform characteristics, it can be pointed out that the win-win item scheme has the effect of increasing the success of the system itself because it is done on the basis of mutual agreement between General Super Markets and traditional markets. The empirical results of this study can be said to support this conjecture. For the successful settlement of a win-win items agreement, the following points should be reviewed. First, it requires a great effort from the selection process of win-win items in order to improve the effectiveness of the agreement. Second, the existing General Super Markets customers should be introduced to the traditional markets or small shops to increase the sales of win-win items. Therefore, voluntary effort is essentially required from the traditional markets to engage customers.

Studios on the Utilization of Persimmons -(Part 3) Investigation of the Optimal Conditions in the Removal of Astrigency and Experiment for the Practical Utilization- (감의 이용(利用)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究) -제3보(第三報) 품종별(品種別) 수확시기별(收穫時期別) 탈삽적정조건(脫澁適正條件) 조사(調査) 및 실용화시험(實用化試驗)-)

  • Sohn, Tae-Hwa;Choi, Jong-Uck;Ha, Young-Scon
    • Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.104-111
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    • 1976
  • The experiment was tested with fruit of 5 astringent cultivars (Chungdo-Bansi, Sagoksi, Euisung-Bolbansi and Gyungsan-bansi) and was carried out to investigate effects of harvest time of fruit and fruit sizes on the removal of astringency and the practical utilization with Chungdo-Bansi was conducted. 1. Soluble tannin content was decreased in all cultivars as fruit was ripening and soluble tannin content at last harvest time was reduced about one half, as contrasted it's content at first harvest time and it showed that the times required of the removal of astringency was gradually shortened. 2. In soluble tannin contents was small fruit size was significantly higher than that of large fruit size. The times for the removal of astringency was required longer small fruit size than large fruit size. 3. In the changes of hardness according to fruit sizes, hardness of large fruit size was decreased rapider than that of small fruit size. This tendency became similar during and after the removal of astringency. 4. According to fruit sizes, sugar content of large fruit size was more amount than that of small fruit size During and after the removal of astringency, reduction of sugar content showed more rapidly large fruit size than small fruit size. 5. Results of the practical utilization in Chungdo-Bansi showed the promising market-ability and persimmons treated by carbon dioxide was increased more income than that treated by $CaC_2$.

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A Study on the Distribution of Hydraulic Head Along the Lateral in a Pilot-Scale Riverbank Filtration (강변여과에서 파일럿규모 수평집수관의 수두분포 연구)

  • Jeong, Jae-Min;Park, Jae-Young;Lee, Jong-Jin;Kim, Yong-Woon;Kim, Seung-Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.334-339
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    • 2013
  • A pilot-scale sand-box experiment simulating a lateral of collector well used in riverbank filtration was performed, and hydraulic head distributions along the lateral were measured according to the various drawdowns at the well. The results of this experiment were compared to the predicted values obtained using a theory previously developed by Kim in order for its validation. This theory predicts the head loss in a large-scale lateral given the loss in a small-scale one, and to have actual values for comparison, the results from a lab-scale experiment previously performed by Kim were employed. Comparing the experimental values to the extrapolated value indeed confirmed the validity of the theory. A procedure to determine the hydraulic head distribution of a practical-scale lateral was also presented applying the theory to the experimental result of this study in an effort to show the process of lateral design for riverbank filtration.