• Korea Trade Review
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.47-64
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• 2020

For the past few years, the Korean government has been consistently expanding its national research & development budget to accelerate economic growth through technology innovation and the enhancement of international competitiveness in global markets. The objective of this paper is to define the concept and analyze the current status of national R&D programs by measuring R&D efficiencies. We determine R&D efficiency by reflecting inputs and outcomes of the five main agricultural R&D programs between 2010 to 2015, and by categorizing and regrouping figures that may affect R&D performance. Among 1,128 targeted projects, 832 projects with patents and thesis were selected for analysis in terms of measuring technology efficiency, pure technology efficiency, and efficiency of scale. Also, the Kruskal-Wallis test was also utilized as well. As a result of empirical analysis, figures that affected the efficiency level of national R&D programs included differences in research resources, research management levels and skills, and research field. This study can be utilized as a reference for re-establishing national agricultural R&D policies, such as enhancement of national technology competitiveness in the global market environment, improving and adapting to new agricultural conditions, market expansion, national agricultural R&D efficiency, aging rural population, agricultural management cost increase, and climate change mitigation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.159-169
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• 2017

정부는 R&D 재원의 전략적인 투자를 위해 199년에 국가과학기술위원회를 설치한 이후, R&D 예산 배분 조정을 지속적으로 추진하면서 개별 사업에 대한 예산조정 이전에 투자우선순위를 설정하였다. 그러나 그간의 투자우선순위 설정은 중장기 투자전략, 기본계획 등을 근거로 하기 때문에 중점적으로 투자해야 할 기술분야에 대해 정성적인 언급에만 머무를 수밖에 없고, 현재 연구트렌드를 반영하기 어려위 실제 R&D 예산 배분 시 구체적인 연계성이 부족한 실정이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 나노분야 R&D를 중심으로 키워드를 활용한 트렌드 분석을 통해 정부 R&D 예산 배분의 전략성을 제고할 수 있으며, 사업의 투자규모를 설정하는데 있어 투자우선순위와의 연관도를 높이는 방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.401-411
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• 2013

Selection of profitable research and development (R&D) projects is one of the major factors affecting sustained growth of firms and countries. This paper analyze what influences the knowledge on the business model exerted on selection of a R&D project. A business model converts the technology value to the customer value, and comprehensively describes the target customers for commercializing a new technology, core values, behaviors within organizations, resources, and external partners. Thus, understanding a business model would make R&D project evaluators place the feasibility and profitability of the business above the merits of the proposed technology in evaluating the technology development. To verify this hypothesis, we had 78 R&D project evaluators acquire the knowledge on the business model and measured how their criteria for R&D project selection have changed using the AHP method. The results shows that feasibility and profitability are more important than the merit of proposed technology, especially capability of company and business development are more important than the levels of technology innovation.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.937-964
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• 2011

The research question of this work comes from that there have been disputes for the governance and roles of the Rural Development Agency (RDA), despite of rather excellence performances of Agricultural R&D program supported by RDA. For this reason, I meta-evaluated the internal evaluation system of Agricultural R&D program in RDA, in terms of the four meta-evaluation components such as evaluation paradigm, evaluation resources, evaluation execution and evaluation utilization. The result shows that the most serious problem is rather lower level of evaluation. Object, one of the evaluation paradigms in the R&D evaluation system of the RDA. So, this work suggested the policy alternatives which may lead the R&D evaluation system of the RDA to be developed for the performance-oriented R&D management system.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.431-449
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• 2008

I analyzed the relationships among motives, strategies, and performances of the university-initiated R&D activities in the Information Technology Research Center(ITRC) Projects. I suggested a research model and 3 hypothesis about them through analysis of a lot of literatures. And I also made an empirical test on the hypothesis through statistical methods. The data which were used in this analysis were gathered through a questionnaire survey to the head of R&D projects in the ITRCs. I would make several useful suggestions to the head of university's ITRCs and the policy makers. Firstly, the type of university's R&D strategy were influenced from several motives such as technology development and acquisition, co-utilizations of research facilities, and utilization and rearing of the expertise. Secondly, to select an optimal type of R&D strategy, the university should considered the efficient methods which were related to forecasting market size of new product and new technology, and to using the useful information on technology development, and to securing the expertise. Thirdly, the researcher and manager of ITRCs had to recognize the correct forecast of future market size of new product and new technology and a useful information about technology development, as the most important factors in improving performances of R&D projects. Lastly, They had to make an effort of getting the efficient methods to secure the expertise, research facilities, and rational compensation system.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.48-79
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• 2016

Recently, to overcome the global economic recession and stimulate the sluggish economy, Korea government has adopted various policies designed to strengthen the innovative capabilities of its small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs). With our focus on ICT technology companies, this study empirically analyzes both the potentials and the limitations of the R&D information support programs which are part of these governmental efforts. Our goal is to generate insights and help develop policies based on evidence. In this study, we used statistics from 2014 on small or medium business technologies to analyze the effect that the government's R&D information support policy has had on the technological or economic performance of small or medium businesses. According to these research results, R&D support programs (assistance with R&D planning and provision of technological information) made available to small or medium businesses did have a significant correlation to technological investment. By contrast, R&D information supporting programs were found to have no direct, significant correlation to technological or economic performance. One exception was that programs that gained the benefits of R&D planning support did have a significant correlation to technological performance in the case of companies engaged in ICT research. The results of this study will provide various insights for policymakers designing policies to support technologically-driven small or medium businesses, including ICT-based companies. We anticipate that this study will be a particularly helpful guide to policy development for corporations or researchers that provide supportive information to small or medium businesses.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.847-866
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• 2015

As Korea strive to bolster their respective economies and to minimize the repercussions of the global financial crisis, policies for strengthening the innovative capabilities of small and medium enterprises have emerged as an important means for pursuing these governmental efforts. In this study, possibilities and limitations of R&D information support policy are researched empirically and implications are provided to enable evidence based policy. Futhermore, the effects of government R&D information support policy on the technological and economic performances of SMEs (small and medium enterprises) are analyzed by using survey results of SMEs technology statistics in 2014. According to the results, R&D information support program (SME R&D planning support program and technology information support program) provided to SMEs was significant for R&D investment. On the other hand, the program, did not exhibit any significant correlation to technological and economic outcomes of SME. The program was also found to have a significant correlation to SMEs' technological outcomes in the case of the specific groups of ICT technology category. I anticipate that the results of this study will serve as a guide to various policy-related issues for policymakers who are conceptualizing programs to support ICT technology-oriented SMEs, and I particularly hope that this study will provide various insights for companies and researchers in their efforts to build R&D information support program for SMEs.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.614-637
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• 2009

To enhance the efficiency of national R&D programs, it is the most important thing to establish the optimized evaluation system. This is because the distorted evaluation could be an obstacle to select the best suited research team and lead the desirable research result. In current evaluation process of national R&D program, it is the most frequently used method for eliminating an evaluator's biased view to exclude both the maximum and minimum scores. However, there are several limitations in this stereotype method. Therefore, this study analyzes some real cases to derive the problems from the stereotype method and then recommends the complementary alternatives which can enhance the reliability of the evaluation system for national R&D programs. The results acquired from this study seem to be helpful to increase the agreement of the applicants on the evaluation results and ultimately to maximize the efficiency of national R&D program. In addition, they can be applied to various field with respect to the methodology for ranking decision.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.1533-1549
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• 2017

정부 R&D성과의 질적 수준을 제고하고 중장기 국가 재정사업의 효율성을 높이기 위한 각 연구 기관의 시도들이 있어 왔다. 연구사업의 발굴, 기획 및 수행에 있어 효과적인 정부 R&D 예산의 배분, 우선순위를 도출, 기술개발 전략 수립을 하는 것이 매우 중요해지고 있다. 정부 재정사업인 국가 R&D사업은 국가 기간산업을 활성화하고 경제발전을 수반할 수 있는 중요한 모멘텀으로서의 역할을 하고 있다. 또한, 국가 R&D사업의 한 축인 거대과학은 최첨단 기술의 개발과 미래성장동력의 발굴이라는 대명제로 그 중요성이 강조되고 있다. 거대과학 연구는 그 분야의 특수성으로 인해 대학의 과학자, 공공 연구기관의 연구원, 기업의 엔지니어가 함께 참여하여야 하고 대규모 국가 예산을 동원하는 과학 연구 사업이다. 이는 대규모 예산을 기반으로 하고 있기에 집중적 투자가 수반된다면 단기적으로 기초과학의 발전을 이뤄낼 수 있다. 이것은 산업발전에 밑거름이 되어 그 분야 자체로 하나의 산업생태계를 구성하고 요소 기술들의 응용으로 파생기술이 전파된다면 새로운 신산업 창출 등 국가산업에 많은 혜택을 줄 수 있다. 하지만 많은 인력과 대규모 투자 그리고 중장기 프로젝트라는 특성으로 인해 실패 가능성도 높아 전략적 선택 및 추진이 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 거대과학의 기술개발전략의 수립을 위하여 중이온 입자가속기 핵심부품 국산화 전략수립 사례를 중심으로 효율적인 R&D추진 방안을 도출해보고자 한다. 또한, 논문, 특허를 기반으로 한 3P분석을 통하여 중이온 가속기 핵심부품의 국산화 전략을 제안하고, 추진 우선순위 및 전략을 제시하고자 한다.

• The Journal of Fisheries Business Administration
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.101-109
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• 2013

This study is aimed to analyze investment effects of fisheries R&D projects of the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute(NFRDI). In the analysis, Granger causal relations between R&D investment and fisheries production are tested. In addition, time-lag effects of fisheries R&D investment are estimated with an impulse response analysis and investment effects of R&D projects are estimated by changes of social surplus. Results indicate that there exists an Granger-causality between R&D investment and fisheries production and fisheries production responds to the fisheries R&D shock about three years after the initial shock. The magnitudes of the impacts increase until a peak is reached 5~7 years and the impacts decline to zero after 25 years. As investment effects, it is shown that the internal rate of returns of fisheries R&D investment is 55.2%.