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Firm Characteristics and Modes of University-Industry Collaboration: Cases of Japan and Thailand

  • Pittayasophon, Siriporn;Intarakumnerd, Patarapong;Sumikura, Koichi;Saito, Hiromi;Suzuki, Jun
    • STI Policy Review
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.17-39
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    • 2016
  • Despite the importance of university-industry collaboration, issues pertaining to the characteristics of collaborating firms, their modes of interaction, and the relationship between these modes and outcomes are not well-researched. The impact of country's development on these issues is also unclear. This case study examines Japan and Thailand-respectively representing developed and developing countries-and features the following key findings: 1) the characteristics of firms affect modes, with large Japanese firms being more collaborative with universities, whereas Thai SMEs significantly collaborate more with universities; 2) the relationship between modes in Thai firms is stronger than those of Japanese firms because in Thailand, perhaps due to weak technological capacity, R&D collaboration is conducted alongside university consultancy services; and 3) in Japan, R&D and human resource development collaboration lead to product innovation, whereas different outcomes are expected from different modes in Thailand. Apparently, trivial informal collaborations do have significant impact on innovation.

The Influence of Organizational Culture Characteristics on Employees' Innovation Behavior : A study on the mediating effect of creative self-efficacy (조직문화 특성이 종업원의 혁신행동에 미치는 영향 :창의적 자기효능감의 매개효과에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Ji Woong;Kang, Min Jung
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.406-415
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    • 2021
  • In this study, a research model was established and analyzed in order to examine how the characteristics of organizational culture affect the innovation behavior of employees. This study divided the characteristics of organizational culture into development, stability, and rationality as sub-factors, and conducted a study on the relationship between characteristics of organizational culture and innovation behavior. This study also attempted to confirm whether creative efficacy mediates between the characteristics of organizational culture and innovation behavior. To this end, the data collection was targeted to 80 members of the organization in the company, and the SPSS and PLS programs were used to analyze the collected data. As a result of hypothesis testing, only stability among the characteristics of organizational culture had a significant direct effect on innovation behavior. These results can be interpreted as meaningful results in a study between the characteristics of organizational culture and the innovation behavior of employees. In addition, creative efficacy was found to significantly mediate the influence of organizational cultural characteristics (development, stability, and rationality) on employees' innovation behavior. We suggest that companies should focus on forming an organizational culture in terms of internal stability perceived by employees, and lead employees' innovation behavior to create organizational performance. We propose that companies should create an organizational culture so that the characteristics of the organizational culture (development, stability, rationality) increase the creative efficacy of the employees and lead to the innovation behavior of the employees.

Classification of Regional Innovation Types and Region-based Innovation Policies (지역별 혁신형태 유형화와 지역 기반 혁신 정책)

  • Yoo, Gwangmin;Kim, Dongkwan;Han, Seongho
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.151-175
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    • 2015
  • The focus of regional innovation policies is shifting from a central government to local governments. No one denies the fact that the innovation will lead regional development and shall be created in such a way that it will be appropriate for regional circumstances. However, the central government and local governments have not arrived yet at a conclusion on what innovation policies are appropriate for regional circumstances. This leads to a consequence that is inefficient not only at a national level, but also at a regional level. This research, given this problem, aims to find out the characteristics and differences in innovation types among the regions in Korea and suggests appropriate policy implications by classifying such characteristics and differences. This research, given these objectives, classified regions in consideration of the various indicators that comprise the innovation suggested by existing related researches and illustrated policies based on such characteristics and differences. In this research clustering analysis based on multiple factor analysis was applied. Supplementary researches on dynamically analyzing stability in regional innovation types, establishing systematic indicators based on the regional innovation theory, and developing additional indicators are necessary in the future.

Innovation and Knowledge Creation in Commissioned-service-type quasi-governmental Institutions (위탁집행형 준정부기관의 혁신과 지식창출에 관한 연구)

  • Yoonseock Lee
    • Knowledge Management Research
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.35-52
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study is to review the theoretical discussion on innovation and explore the direction of innovation based on the characteristics of Commissioned-service-type quasi-governmental institutions. In addition, by exploring the main contents and directions of innovation for knowledge creation, this study aims to derive directions for innovation in Commissioned-service-type quasi-governmental institutions. Since an innovation project is both a business and a public service, I conducted a theoretical review to categorize innovation projects using the discussion of service innovation. According to the theoretical framework, innovation in the public sector begins with exploring changes in environmental and social values. This process leads to the establishment of innovation goals and directions, as well as innovation tasks linked to the core competencies of each institution. It is important to note that the institutional conditions and characteristics of the contracting organization should be taken into account. In conclusion, considering these characteristics, Commissioned-service-type quasi-governmental institutions should check their efforts to achieve their innovation tasks and diagnose the conditions for innovation to which type of organization they belong.

The relationship between job characteristics and incremental innovation, and the moderating effect of tenure (직무특성이 점진적 혁신에 미치는 효과 및 재직기간의 조절효과)

  • Ahn, Kwan-Young;Hong, Kwang-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.167-173
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    • 2011
  • This paper reviewed the relationship between job characteristics and incremental innovation, and the moderating effect of tenure. The results of multiple regression analysis, based on the responses from 241 employees in service industry, showed that job variety, identity, importance, autonomy and feedback have positive relationships with incremental innovation. In moderating effects, tenure interacts with variety and identity to have positive effects on incremental innovation, but tenure interacts with job importance, autonomy and feedback to have negative effects on incremental innovation.

Exploration on the construction of ecological system of undergraduate Entrepreneurship Management Education for female college students (女大学生创业管理本科教育生态体系建设探索)

  • Li, wei;Li, Houzhong
    • Journal of East Asia Management
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2022
  • Innovation and entrepreneurship education is becoming an important development opportunity for colleges and universities to realize curve overtaking. Affected by the physical and mental development characteristics, female college students in innovative undertaking showed different growth characteristics. In order to further promote female college students' innovative undertaking, we should combine the characteristics of female design with innovation entrepreneurship education path. As one of the three women's colleges, the general innovation and entrepreneurship course system of Shandong Women's University provides a wide education of innovation and entrepreneurship consciousness and thinking for all students. The undergraduate major of business Administration (entrepreneurial management) provides the whole system education of entrepreneurship, and through "system guarantee, professional construction, course system, competition assistance and project cultivation", female students' entrepreneurial consciousness is cultivated and their entrepreneurial ability is improved.

A Journal-Article-Based Study on the Dynamic Characteristics of Innovation Sources of Advanced Metals Technology (논문정보를 활용한 첨단 금속재료기술 혁신원천의 동태적 특성 분석)

  • Chae Jae-Woo;Cho Kyu-Kab;Kim Jeong-Hum;Lee Yong-Tai
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.1027-1059
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this paper is to analyze the dynamic characteristics of innovation sources such as scientific knowledges, processing technologies and user's needs in advanced metals technology. The journal articles data of four advanced materials are analyzed; amorphous metals, superplastic materials, shape memory alloys and aluminum-lithium alloy. Some regularities are found from the analysis of the four materials. The innovation proceeds through close interactions among the innovation sources. As the innovation proceeds, the relative importance of each source changes: scientific knowledge initiates the innovation and becomes the most important source in the first phase, then the processing technologies increase importance in the second phase, and then scientific knowledge, again, becomes the leading factor of innovation. Scientific knowledge and processing technology take turns leading the innovation. The impacts of users' needs to the innovation increase more and more as innovation proceeds. The results of analysis imply to the policy makers that emphasis of policy, and therefore the allocation of sources for innovation, should vary along the phases in the life cycle of advanced metals technology.

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Effect of Fitness Among CEO characteristics, Company's Innovation, Management on the Performance of Organization (CEO특성, 경영혁신, 경영통제시스템 적합성이 재무성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Jung, Jae-Jin
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.377-386
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    • 2013
  • The purposes of this study is to examine the effect of fitness Among Characteristics of CEO, Company's innovation and Management Control on Organization Performance. CEO characteristics are investigated by the risk-taking propensity, need for achievement. Company's Innovation are measured by product innovation, technological innovation. Management control are applied by action control and result control. Organization performances are analyzed by internal performance, growth performance, financial performance. the research methodology applied in this paper is contingency theory by Drazin and Van de Ven(1985) - selective approach, Interaction approach, system approach. This paper was applied by the Three way interaction term among CEO characteristics, Company's Innovation and Management control to analyze the influences to the organization performances. As a result of this paper, there are the differences between Two way interaction terms or three way interaction terms to affect the organization performances. this paper can confirm the desirable combinations between two or three variables(CEO characteristics, Company's Innovation and Management control) to affect significantly to the particular organization performance.

Process Innovation and Selection of Organizational Structure : Modeling and Simulation of Innovation Competition Process (공정혁신과 조직선별: 혁신경쟁의 모헝화와 시뮬레이션 분석)

  • Kim, Chang-Uk
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.73-97
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    • 2004
  • This paper explores the relationship between technological characteristics within process innovation and selection of the firms of different organizational forms in the evolution of an industry. For this purpose, this paper develops a simulation model for industrial change that replicates dynamic competition for process innovation. The simulation analysis found the following causal relationship. First, the stronger innovation impact in terms of productivity jump tends to enlarge the productivity difference among the incumbent firms and increase the speed of productivity catch-up by the large diversified firms, Second, the possibility of entry, and eventual dominance by the large diversified firms increase when the innovation-productivity linkage is stronger and there is less cumulativeness in productivity determination. These results imply that technological characteristics are important factors that have influence on whether or not the large diversified firms can enter and succeed in an industry.

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Towards an Innovation Policy in the Post Catch-Up Era

  • Hwang, Hye-Ran;Choung, Jae-Yong
    • Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.1-19
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    • 2013
  • As the catch-up innovation system was exposed to a new competition environment in which second-tier catch-up countries reduced the gap with Korea and advanced Korean firms entered into the frontier product market, it is experiencing system delay in terms of organizational and policy change. Therefore, innovation policy needs to be reorganized from a dynamic perspective to analyze the problems in the transition period and enable the system to overcome organizational and institutional delays. This article investigates the characteristics of transition periods in terms of external environment changes and internal socio-economic pressures. Based on the analysis of environment changes and catch-up system characteristics, it suggests the framework for policy intervention, direction, and practical principles for post catch-up innovation policy. In particular, it suggests the network-based developmental state and policy implementation in order to overcome the limitation of centralized developmental state of catch-up periods.