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Regional Innovation Policy and Venturing Clusters in Japan

  • Kendo Masayuki
    • 기술혁신연구
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    • 제14권2호
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    • pp.167-181
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    • 2006
  • This paper reviews regional innovation policy in Japan. 'Technopolis' policy, the first technology-based regional development policy in the world, was implemented in Japan. Nonetheless, technology-based regional endogenous development did not occur. Then, regional technology transfer was pursued. In order to make use of universities and public research institutes in a region for development, university-industry collaboration and cross-over, such as university spin-offs, were promoted. Within this background, new technology-based regional development policies have been introduced based on a cluster approach. These policies are the knowledge cluster Initiative and the industrial cluster program. However, existing companies have difficulty in carrying out innovation. This paper argues that a cluster to create new start-ups that carry out innovation is also needed and explains a new concept of venturing cluster. Based on this new cluster concept, this paper analyzes the situation of Sapporo in Japan, where many university spin-offs are being created in the biotechnology field.

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China's Roadmap for Fostering S&T and Catalyzing Innovation: Lessons for India

  • Sandhya, G.D.;Nath, Pradosh
    • Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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    • 제2권2호
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    • pp.123-149
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    • 2013
  • In the past three decades since the advent of market oriented reforms began in 1978, China has made rapid strides in catalyzing economic growth. The economic development coincides with the development of significant capabilities in several areas of science, technology, and innovation. China has recorded notable achievements in a number of emerging fields. This paper investigates the process that has catalyzed the developments in Science and Technology (S&T) and the key factors that have facilitated this process. The causality of dynamism of S&T in China points at targeted development, an emphasis on high growth industries and high technology, commensurate resource mobilization, ruthless restructuring of innovation actors, dynamic organization and management of R&D, continuously evolving policies with strict enforcement, and implementable instruments. This paper attempts to bring out the roadmap of the Chinese transformation process in S&T and derive policy lessons for India.

A Case Study of the Daedeok Innopolis Innovation Cluster and Its Implications for Nigeria

  • Shenkoya, Temitayo;Kim, Euiseok
    • World Technopolis Review
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    • 제8권2호
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    • pp.104-119
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    • 2019
  • Innovation clusters are essential in the economic development of many developed countries across the world. While they present ways for under-developed and developing countries to grow their economies, fully operational innovation clusters are yet to be established in Nigeria. Many experts argue that learning from experience is an effective way of galvanizing economic development. Therefore, in this study, an empirical analysis involving a multi-variable quantitative analysis was used to examine the factors that influence the performance of the Daedeok Innopolis Innovation Cluster (South Korea). The results obtained show that the investment in education, Research and Development (R&D), labor capacity of key players within the innovation cluster, and the transfer of technology (within the cluster) were essential factors that influence the performance of the Daedeok Innopolis Innovation Cluster.

R&D Tax Concession Program in the Australian Government

  • Moon, Yong-Eun;Yoon, Joseph
    • 한국디지털정책학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국디지털정책학회 2004년도 International Conference on Digital Policy & Management
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    • pp.145-168
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    • 2004
  • In industrialised countries, innovation is a key source of economic growth. Research is a key driver of technological innovation and involves the process of systematic investigation and/or experimentation to discover new knowledge. The Governments' industry innovation policy supports a business focus on Research and Development (R&D) through a range of programs in order to achieve these aims. The Innovation Statement (DISR 2000, 20010, launched by the Australian Prime Minister in January 2001, commits an additional $3 billion overfive years to encourage and support innovation. The Australian Government aims to build world competitive firms and strong research capability in industry to strengthen Australia's international competitiveness and increase national prosperity. It develops policies and programs to enhance investment in innovation. The Australian Government has established a number of R&D funding support programs aimed at increasing the level of R&D in Australia. The backbone of these programs is the tax concession program, which is made up of the 125 per cent R&D tax concession, the 175 per cent premium tax concession and the tax offset. Over 4000 businesses take advantage of the tax concession scheme, which costs the government around $400-million a year. This cost is expected to rise to over half a billion by 2005-06 (Commonwealth of Australia, 2003). Ensuring these resources are invested where they provide significant national economic benefits is a major policy issue. In this sense, this paper looks at the appropriateness, effectiveness and efficiency of the R&D tax concession with costs and benefits analysis.

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An Empirical Investigation of Triple Helix and National Innovation System Dynamics in ASEAN-5 Economies

  • Afza, Munshi Naser Ibne;Mansur, Kasim Bin HJ. MD.;Sulong, Rini Suryati
    • Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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    • 제6권3호
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    • pp.313-331
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    • 2017
  • This paper exhibits the concept of Triple Helix model to explain and link university-industry-government (Triple Helix) connections to national innovation systems theory. The driver of this paper is to test the dynamics of Triple Helix concept under national innovation system in the Association of South East Asian Countries (ASEAN)-5 economies. Panel econometric analysis with cross-sectional dependence (CD) test is applied to investigate the relationship amongst Triple Helix variables. The empirical analysis employs innovation indicators of five founding ASEAN countries namely Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand for the period of 2000-2015 from an existing WDI and WCY database. Econometric results support the two research questions of this study; firstly, there is a significant relationship between innovation outcome and its key drivers under Triple Helix context of National Innovation System in ASEAN-5 economies; secondly, the extent of the relationship among government R&D expenditure with high-tech productions are positive and significant while new ideas coming from universities as scientific publications and high-tech production have positive relationship but not significant yet in ASEAN-5 countries. Overall labor productivity is positive and significant with innovation outcomes in ASEAN-5.

Modes of Innovation and the National Systems of Innovation of the BRICS Economies

  • Scerri, Mario
    • STI Policy Review
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    • 제5권2호
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    • pp.20-42
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    • 2014
  • The Brazil, Russia, India China and South Africa (BRICS) group has emerged as a collection of large economies which are outside the traditional groups of industrialised "first world" economies and which have altered the global distribution of economic power. The basis of their emergence is a combination of their size and growth rates, and the fact that they lie outside the established centres of global economic power. As such, they have "diversified" the power base of the global economic order. The question which is asked in this paper is whether the phenomenon of the BRICS goes beyond this to mark the start of a possible challenge to the neoliberal orthodoxy which emerged as the globally dominant policy paradigm since the collapse of the Soviet Union. This paper develops and uses a "modes of innovation" approach to explore the potential of the BRICS to constitute a structural rupture in the current globally dominant neoliberal mode of innovation. This question is important since, in the absence of this rupture, the remarkable development trajectory of the BRICS will serve to reinforce the legitimacy of the global orthodoxy. The paper first articulates the modes of innovation concept and then proceeds to locate the BRICS systems of innovation within the current globally dominant mode. On this basis it then provides an appraisal of the possible impact of the BRICS on the evolutionary path of the global system of innovation.

기술혁신정책의 진화와 기술혁신이론 (The Evolution of Innovation Policy and Innovation Theory)

  • 송위진
    • 과학기술학연구
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    • 제2권1호
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    • pp.39-61
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    • 2002
  • 본 연구에서는 전후 선진국을 중심으로 이루어진 기술혁신정책의 기조변화와 그것을 반영하고 또 선도하는 기술혁신이론의 전환을 살펴보았다. 1980-90년대를 전후해서 등장한 새로운 기술혁신정책의 기조는 사용자 지향성의 강화, 임무지향성에서 경제 사회 지향성으로의 전환, 능력의 향상 등으로 요약될 수 있다. 한편 정책기조의 이와 같은 변화는 혁신체제론을 통해 기술혁신이론에 반영되었다. 상호작용적 학습과 혁신능력을 중심으로 논의를 전개하고 있는 혁신체제론은 이러한 기술혁신정책의 변화를 이론체계 내에 상당부분 수용하였다. 그러나 최근 기술혁신정책에서 강조되고 있는 사회적 측면들은 아직까지 혁신체제론에서 본격적으로 다루어지지 않고 있다. 이 글에서는 향후 혁신체제론의 중요한 연구과제 중의 하나를 '사회'를 이론체계 속에 포괄하는 것으로 파악하고 그러한 작업을 위한 출발점이 될 수 있는 논의를 다루었다.

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Developing and Evaluating New ICT Innovation System: Case Study of Korea's Smart Media Industry

  • Kim, Eungdo;Lee, Daeho;Bae, Kheesu;Rim, Myunghwan
    • ETRI Journal
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    • 제37권5호
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    • pp.1044-1054
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    • 2015
  • The smart media (SM) industry has demonstrated that it has the characteristics to increase user innovative activities, enhance open innovativeness, and increase the segmentation of innovation value. This study introduces and evaluates an innovation system that reflects the characteristics of the SM industry. We categorize the SM industry into hardware, network, platform, and content industries and perform an AHP analysis (based on a survey of 96 experts) to evaluate the relative importance of the factors/factor groups affecting the creation of innovation. The results show that 'collaboration activity" is a more important factor than other innovation factor groups (financial support, R&D, policy environment, human resources) in the SM industry. The results also show that the important factors/factor groups differ by industry.

Japanese Policy and Programs for the Fostering of Global Entrepreneurs

  • Kim, Eunyoung
    • STI Policy Review
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    • 제7권1호
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    • pp.40-65
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    • 2016
  • Knowledge plays a more important role in promoting entrepreneurship in the current information-led society than it did during the age of industrialization. Many recent studies found that entrepreneurship stimulates and generates innovation and economic growth. In response to the issues of long-term low growth, the Japanese government implemented several policies to encourage universities initiate entrepreneurial activities. This paper examines Japanese policies since 2014 that support universities in providing various programs for developing global entrepreneurs. Thirteen academic institutes were beneficiaries of three-year funding since the fiscal year of 2014. Each university designed its own educational programs according to their own contexts, built various forms of innovation ecosystems with domestic as well as international partner organizations, and offered entrepreneurship training courses or innovation workshops for companies to sustain its programs through broadening their funding bases. Due to the interdisciplinary nature and short history in operating the programs so far, it is difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the programs. However, each participating university accumulated knowledge and experience while carrying out their various programs, suggesting important new directions for policymakers and education program designers in facilitating entrepreneurship and innovation.