• Journal of East Asia Management
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.43-64
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• 2022

Exploring innovations for latecomers to catch up has been a popular concern in industry and academia. Over the last decade, more and more East Asian latecomer firms have moved beyond imitation and are delivering innovative products and services to the market. However, the semiconductor latecomers from China have limited success in catching up with more mature semiconductor firms. Our study examines how semiconductor latecomers to break through the latecomer's dilemma by innovation and achieve catch-up. We use a single-case approach for the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) vertical development process to analysis its innovation path of catching up. The study's results showed that SMIC relied on the government's policy and funding support, and based on the strategic endurance of entrepreneurs, it persisted in technology R&D investment and independent innovation for 20 years. SMIC finally smashed the dilemma of latecomers and successfully achieved catch-up. With these findings, we believe that the path of catching up innovation for semiconductor latecomers should be equipped with independent innovation of technology, strategic leadership of entrepreneurs and support of government policies. As these factors are combined, latecomer firms' position is expected to rise and catch-up will become visible. Our study contributes to some enlightenment on the innovation path for latecomers in China and global semiconductors to achieve their catch-up.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.109-139
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• 2013

본 연구는 미국과 한국의 오픈 소스 소프트웨어(OSS) 기업의 사례를 중심으로 기존 기술추격이론이 지식 집약적인 OSS 산업에서도 적용되는 지를 분석하고 후발기업들이 기술추격의 발판을 마련할 시사점을 연구하는 것을 그 목적으로 한다. 이를 위하여, 국내 SW 기업들의 인터뷰와 미국 SW 기업들의 기록문서 분석 및 2차 출처들의 검토를 통한 실증적 연구를 수행하였으며, 패러다임의 변곡점 판별과 기술체제의 비교라는 분석의 틀을 이용하여 소프트웨어(SW) 기업의 기술추격 과정을 연구하였다. 본 연구결과, OSS 기업의 기술추격을 설명하는데 있어 기존 기술추격이론의 이론적 논거가 유효하지 않다고 판별하였고 기술체제의 비교 결과, 후발기업의 기술추격을 효과적으로 촉진하는 유효한 요소들을 파악하였다. 또한 저자들은 OSS 기업의 사례연구 결과를 통하여 탈 추격이론이 주장하는 기존 이론의 제약을 진단하고 OSS 의 낮은 전유성이 역설적으로 기술추격을 촉진하는 새로운 기술 체제에 대한 해석을 논의한다.

• 과학기술학연구
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.63-89
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• 2016

이 글에서는 새롭게 부상하고 있는 전환연구의 관점에서 우리나라 혁신정책담론 중의 하나인 탈추격론을 재해석하는 작업을 수행했다. 탈추격론의 지향점, 주요 연구 대상, 시스템 혁신에 대한 논의를 전환연구의 관점에서 확장하여 지속가능성, 산업과 사회의 공진화, 전환관리 등의 개념을 탈추격론에 도입했다. 이를 통해 탈추격 혁신과 정책은, 기존 시스템의 개선과 최적화가 아니라 탈추격 지속가능 시스템으로의 전환을 지향하고, 사회 환경문제의 해결을 수반하는 탈추격 혁신을 진행해야 하며, 탈추격과 지속가능성의 맹아를 담고 있는 니치를 전환의 관점에서 전략적으로 관리해야 한다는 점을 지적하였다.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.27-50
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• 2016

Korean manufacturing industry have recently faced the catch-up of China in the mass commodity product, such as automotive, display, and smart phone in terms of market as well as technology. Accordingly, discussion on the importance of achieving catch-up in complex product systems (CoPS) has been increasing as a new innovation engine for the industry. In order to achieve successful catch-up of CoPS, we explored emerging technologies of CoPS, which are featured by the characteristics of radical novelty, relatively fast growth and self-sustaining, through the study of emerging technologies of gas turbine for power generation. We found that emerging technologies of the gas turbine are technologies for combustion nozzle and composition of electrical machine for increasing power efficiency, washing technology for particulate matter, cast and material processing technology for enhancing durability from fatigue, cooling technologies from extremely high temperature, interconnection operation technology between renewable energy and the gas turbine for flexibility in power generation, and big data technology for remote monitoring and diagnosis of the gas turbine. We also found that those emerging technologies resulted in technological progress of the gas turbine by converging with other conventional technologies in the gas turbine. It indicates that emerging technologies in CoPS can be appeared on various technological knowledge fields and have complementary relationship with conventional technologies for technology progress of CoPS. It also implies that latecomers need to pursue integrated learning that includes emerging technologies as well as conventional technologies rather than independent learning related to emerging technologies for successful catch-up of CoPS. Our findings provide an important initial theoretical ground for investigating the emerging technologies and their characteristics in CoPS as well as recognizing knowledge management strategy for successful catch-up of latecomers. Our findings also contribute to the policy development of the CoPS from the perspective of innovation strategy and knowledge management.

• 과학기술학연구
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.1-44
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• 2006

본 연구는 우리나라 민간기업의 탈추격형 혁신활동을 분석하는데 일차적인 목적을 가지고 있다. 선진기술의 빠른 추격에 의해 달성되었던 과거의 혁신패턴과 차별성을 갖는 새로운 형태의 탈추격형 기술혁신활동이 등장하고 있다. 여기에는 제조업이나 자본집약적 대량생산제품과 같은 기존의 경쟁우위제품군에서 세계 최첨단 제품군으로까지 진화하는 경우, 새로운 부품의 채택 및 새로운 부품간 배열을 통한 아키텍춰 혁신, 원천기술에 기반한 신제품의 생산 등 다양한 형태가 나타나고 있다. 본 연구는 새롭게 발흥하는 탈추격형 혁신활동을 분석하기 위한 개념틀을 모색하고, 기술집약형 중소기업을 중심으로 사례연구를 수행함으로써 우리나라 기업의 탈추격형 혁신활동의 패턴과 진화방향을 분석하고 있다.

• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-18
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• 2016

Catch-up is a well-known and familiar terminology for innovation scholars in developing countries such as Taiwan, Korea and China. The strategy, however, is too difficult to perform in each industry. This study looks into a catch-up strategy that Apple and Xiaomi used and examines the results on the creative imitation of business model in the smartphone industry. It is quite surprising that even Apple is based on catch-up strategy. They wanted to catch-up Nokia. Our case study shows that these two companies quickly caught up with the leaders, and the common feature of their strategy is characterized as creative imitation of business model. Creative imitation of business model is different from creative imitation of innovation. Furthermore, this research confirms that the creative imitation of business model leads to aggressive creative innovation.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.239-259
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• 2008

Korea is in the middle of a transition from the catch-up stage to the post catch-up stage. This requires a new approach, a new perspective, and a new strategy to survive in the new environment. This research investigates the post catch-up research activities in the public sector, including universities and national research institutes. In this case study, the experts and research teams at the highest level in the world are introduced, and research environments and know-how possessed by the experts and research teams are analyzed. The cases shows that the post catch-up research teams have research patterns to open new research field and integrate prior knowledge base with new knowledges from other research field. They succeed in producing highly regarded research results and making research platform for further advanced research.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.97-131
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• 2005

This paper has discussed several issues regarding the barriers and opportunities for technological catch-up by the late-comer countries and firms. As one of the barriers to technological catch-up, the paper emphasizes the uncertainty involved with the third stage of learning how to design. The barriers arise because as the forerunner firms refuse to sell or give license to successful catching-up firms who thus have to design the product by themselves. The paper discusses how to overcome this barrier. It also notes that if the crisis of design technology is a push factor for leapfrogging, arrival of new techno-economic paradigm can serve as a pull factor for leapfrogging, serving as a winder of opportunity. The, it emphasized the two risks with leapfrogging, namely the risk of choosing right technology or standards and the risk of creating initial markets, and how to overcome these risks. It discusses how to overcome these risks in leapfrogging, and differentiates diverse forms of knowledge accesses. Then, the paper takes up the issue of whether there can be a single common or several models for catch-up. A common element of catching-up is to enter new markets segments quickly, to manufacture with high levels of engineering excellence, and to be first-to-market by means of the best integrative designs. This observation is supported by the fact that Korea and Taiwan has achieved higher levels of technological capabilities in such sectors as featured by short cycle time of technology. The possibility of two alternative models for catch-up is also discussed in terms of the key difference between Korean and Taiwan, especially in the position toward the source of foreign knowledge and the paths taken toward the final goal of OBM. Taiwan followed the sequential steps of OEM, ODM and OBN, in collaboration or integration with the MNCs. Korean chaebols jumped from OEM directly to OBM even without consolidating design technology.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.267-276
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• 2023

R&D strategies of companies with low and high technological levels are discussed based on the concept of technology convergence and divergence. However, empirically detecting enterprise technology convergence in the distribution of enterprise technology (total productivity increase) over time and identifying key change factors are challenging. This study used a novel statistical indicator that captures the internal technology distribution change with a single number to clearly measure the technology distribution peak as a change in critical bandwidth for enterprise technology convergence and presented it as evidence of each technology convergence or divergence. Furthermore, this study applied the quantitative technology convergence identification method. Technology convergence appeared from the separation of total corporate productivity distribution of 69 IT companies in Korea in 2019-2020 rather than in 2015-2016. Results indicated that when the total technological level was separated from the technology leading and technology catch-up, IT companies were found to be pursuing R&D strategies for technology catch-up.

• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.581-606
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• 2004

Korean Innovation Systems are in transition from catch-up regime to post catch-up regime. This paper tries to analyse the change of scientific and technological practices in the public sector of Korea Innovation Systems. This paper focus on the way public sector scientific and technological practices are regulated and contribute to private sector. It is argued that self-governing practice of public S&T community is being enhanced and the requests of private sector for the public sector's contribution through research activity are reinforced in emerging post catch-up regime.