• 경영과정보연구
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.1-18
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• 2013

기업의 R&D 노력과 혁신에 관한 선행연구들은 주로 R&D 노력이 혁신에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지에 관한 분석에 집중하였는데, 이들 연구의 핵심결과는 일관적인 실증분석의 결과를 가져다주지 못하였다. 또한 기업의 혁신을 강화하기 위한 정부의 정책지원은 기업혁신을 창출시키기 위한 중요한 요소로써 간주되어 왔음에도 불구하고 정부정책지원이 기업의 R&D 노력이 혁신으로 이어지는데 있어서의 역할을 규명한 연구는 극히 드문 실정이다. 실제로 대부분의 정부정책지원에 관한 연구 역시 혁신에 직접적인 효과성이 있는지에 관한 연구에 편중되어 왔다. 본 연구는 과학기술정책연구원(STEPI)에서 조사한 2008년 제조업 기업의 기술혁신활동조사표(2008년도)를 이용하여 R&D가 기업의 혁신에 미치는 영향 및 그러한 관계에서 정부정책지원의 조절효과를 규명하려고 시도하였다. 실증분석의 결과는 R&D는 혁신에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, R&D와 혁신간 관계에서 정부정책지원의 조절효과를 분석한 결과 역시 긍정적으로 나타났다. 이는 기업의 정부정책지원을 많이 받을수록 R&D와 혁신 간의 긍정적 관계가 더 높아진다는 것을 의미하는 것으로 정부정책지원의 긍정적 조절효과가 존재하고 있음을 보여준다. 따라서 기업에 필요한 혁신은 기업의 R&D 노력으로 달성될 수 있는데 R&D 노력이 보다 효율적으로 혁신과 연계되기 위해서는 정부정책지원이 필요가 있음을 시사하고 있다.

• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.260-278
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• 2011

1982년 특정연구개발사업이 시작되면서 국가연구개발 성과의 확산과 촉진을 위해 국가연구개발 기술료 제도를 운영하고 있다. 그동안 기술료 제도의 개선방안에 대한 다양한 연구가 시도되었으나, 주로 기술료의 징수와 배분체계에 국한하였다. 본 연구에서는 기술료 제도를 운영하는 [징수배분집행-사후관리]의 전주기적 관점에서 접근하였다. 이를 위해 기술료의 실태조사와 산학연 설문조사 등을 실시하였다. 이 분석결과에 근거해서 (1)기술료 제도 법령의 합리화와 (2)기술료의 징수배분체계 개선,(3)기술료 사후관리의 효율성 제고의 세 가지 측면에서 개선방안을 모색하였다.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.191-228
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• 2016

This paper analyzes the role of absorptive capacity in R&D spillovers through strategic R&D investments in a game-theoretic framework. In the model, a firm's effective R&D is composed of idiosyncratic R&D, which produces its own innovations, and identical R&D, which improves absorptive capacity. The model shows that in the presence of absorptive capacity firms have a tendency to underinvest (overinvest) in idiosyncratic (identical) R&D relative to the social optimum. As the spillover becomes larger, firms decrease their own R&D while they become more inclined towards strategic exploitation of rivals' efforts. Since the former effect overpowers the latter, the total amount of R&D decreases as the spillover increases. This is socially undesirable, providing a potential justification for a governmental subsidy for idiosyncratic R&D and a tax on identical R&D. The findings may have important implications for newly industrialized or emerging countries that consider a redirection of national R&D policy and intellectual property rights (IPR) regime.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.225-240
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• 2019

보건산업 관련 클러스터는 거시적으로 국가경제를 향상시킬 수 있으며, 미시적으로 개별기업의 성장 및 발전에 기여할 수 있다고 볼 수 있다. 이러한 이유로 인해서, 국내의 보건산업 클러스터들은 광교, 대덕, 원주, 송도를 중심으로 높은 부가가치를 창출할 수 있는 원동력의 역할을 수행하기 위해서 형성되어 왔다. 본 연구는 지식을 기반으로 고부가가치를 창출할 수 있는 광교, 대덕, 원주, 송도 지역의 보건산업 클러스터에 위치한 156개의 기업들을 대상으로, R&D 자원, 정책지원, 외부 R&D 협력이 어떠한 구조적 관계를 형성하여 기업의 성과에 영향을 미치는가를 규명하고자 하였다. 실증분석 결과를 살펴보면, R&D 자원이 운영성과에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구가설을 제외한 모든 가설들이 통계적으로 유의적인 영향이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 즉, R&D 자원이 정책지원과 R&D 협력에 각각 긍정적인 영향을 미치고 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 정책지원과 R&D 협력이 운영성과에 미치는 긍정적인 영향도 도출되었고, 정책지원이 R&D 협력에 미치는 긍정적이며 유의적인 영향도 발견되었다. 연구결과를 토대로, 기업의 운영성과를 향상시키기 위해서 보건산업 관련 클러스터내에 존재하는 기업들에게 정책지원과 R&D 협력은 중요한 요소로서 인식될 수 있음을 시사하고 있다. 본 연구는 국가경제의 발전을 도모할 수 있는 보건산업과 관련한 기업들을 대상으로 연구를 수행하였다는 점에서 그 의의를 찾을 수 있다.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.35-44
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• 2011

Korea has rapidly increased R&D investment over the last few decades and the intensity of R&D investment is among the highest in the world; however, there are serious concerns about R&D performance and R&D efficiency. This study is to improve the economic assessment methodology regarding a feasibility study for national R&D programs that are thought to be one of the most prominent ways to enhance R&D efficiency. In order to improve the methodology of economic assessment, a few of important factors such as technical or market uncertainty, spillover effect, and R&D contribution ratio should be covered in the model. The focus of this article is technological and market uncertainty that has a close relation with strategic flexibility and utilization potential to increase the value of R&D programs. To improve the current linear and definitive R&D process, a new framework with strategic flexibility is suggested, in which the result of economic assessment that considers technological and market uncertainty is reflected in planning. That kind of feedback process is expected to enhance the value of the program/project as well as R&D efficiency.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.191-204
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• 2023

Purpose - The purpose of this study was to analyse the relationship between R&D tax support policy and firm innovation activity using data on firms engaged in 12 national strategic technology sectors. Design/methodology/approach - This study collected survey data from 664 companies engaged in national strategic technologies. The data were then analysed using the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) analysis. Findings - First, corporate R&D tax support had a statistically significant positive (+) relationship with firm innovation performance. Second, there was a statistically significant positive (+) relationship with incremental innovation, but there was no statistical significance with radical innovation. Third, there was a statistically significant positive (+) relationship with the firm's first innovation, but there was no statistical significance with the world's first innovation. Fourth, there was a statistically significant positive (+) relationship with the number of R&D projects of a firm. Finally, there was a statistically significant positive (+) relationship with a firm's open innovation. Research implications or Originality - First, in terms of policy effectiveness, the government needs to consider promoting R&D tax support policies in areas where R&D competition is fierce. For private companies engaged in the 12 national strategic technology fields, the R&D tax support policy is working in the direction of promoting corporate innovation activities, and this positive policy effect is likely to be effective in areas where R&D competition is fierce. Second, if the government wants to improve the quality of corporate innovation activities through R&D tax support policies, it needs to provide incentives higher than the current level.

• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.281-307
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• 2020

A variety of approaches are being applied to improve the existing ex-ante evaluation by expert panels in publicly funded R&D. While the objective evaluation criteria are constantly being improved to screen and select the superior projects, alternative approaches such as random prioritization and logical modeling are also underway to overcome the conservative bias of reviewers and to secure disruptive innovation. This study intends to find critical implications for ex-ante evaluation of public R&D system from the comparison of Indonesia and Korea. For the comparative analysis, literature review and expert in-depth interviews are conducted on the national R&D system and the selection evaluation process. In Korea, the selection criteria of projects are legally promulgated for establishing an objective evaluation system, and at the program level, the major considerations in the planning process are specified by Presidential Decree. On the other hand, while Indonesia conducts R&D in 47 strategic fields largely by public research institutes (PRI) based on the non-competitive government contributions. This study draws out implications of institutionalizing the planning process at the level of program, and of increasing the ratio of contract-based competitive funding at the level of project in the national R&D portfolio.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.1-22
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• 2017

There has been a pronounced increase in research and development (R&D) expenditure in Singapore over the last two decades, with government spending accounting for a sizeable share. This increase has been spurred by public policy emphasis on research and innovation as engines of economic growth. This paper analyses the impact of R&D on economic performance in Singapore from 1978 to 2012 through the use of time series analysis. The Cobb-Douglas based analysis shows a long-run equilibrium relationship between Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and R&D investments. We found that the short-run productivity of R&D in Singapore is comparable to smaller advanced economies in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). However, in terms of long-run R&D productivity, Singapore lags slightly behind the smaller OECD nations and far behind the G7 countries. This suggests leakage of value capture and low absorptive capacity in local firms. Possibility of productivity improvements induced by policy changes in the 1990s was considered, but no evidence of significant structural breaks was found. Lastly, Granger causality analysis reveals that public sector R&D augments private sector R&D capital, thus playing an important role in generating externalities and spillover effects. Policy implications and lessons for other middle-income countries are discussed.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.27-53
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• 2013

Technology research and development (R&D) expenditures have increased as most countries recognize that technological innovation is a significant factor for continued economic growth. R&D subsidies by governmental entities were permitted in accordance with the Subsidy and Countervailing Measure (SCM) Agreement under the World Trade Organization (WTO) system. However, according to Article 31 of the SCM Agreement the provision for R&D subsidies have been terminated as of January 2000 and legal disputes over R&D subsidies are likely to increase. The aircraft industry has been the only industry where R&D subsidies have become an issue under the WTO. This paper examines international trade disputes within the aircraft industry in regards to measures by Canada and bilateral disputes between the U.S. and the European Communities (EC). In these cases, various R&D subsidies on civil aircraft are found to be inconsistent with WTO rules. This study summarizes the WTO decisions on various R&D subsidies disputed in the aircraft cases and examines the type of R&D subsidies found to be inconsistent (or consistent) with the WTO to provide guidelines for current and future R&D subsidy policies in high-tech industries. The Canada-Aircraft case indicates that R&D subsidies directly targeted towards near market R&D projects with a high export potential will likely be in violation of current WTO rules. Furthermore, findings from the EC-Aircraft and the U.S.-Aircraft cases suggest that the forms (or the methods) of R&D subsidy distribution were not a sufficient condition for the WTO ruling; instead, what ultimately mattered was whether and specifically to whom the benefits of the R&D subsidies are conferred by the government entities.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.53-68
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• 2010

This paper empirically evaluates the effects of regional and industrial R&D on the performances of individual firms in two separated stages: (1) the stage of technological outcome from R&D and (2) the stage of economic outcome from technological outcome. Technological spillovers are separated from negative congestion effects through the stage-specific estimation. The firm-level Korean Innovation Survey data merit in coping with the endogeneity problem inherent in the estimation of spillovers. The estimation results show that: (1) there exist significant R&D spillovers both in regional and industrial dimensions, (2) the hypothesized technological spillovers and economic congestion effects are both in effect, and (3) firms with smaller individual R&D investments show greater spillovers.