Promoting Networks of Commercializing R&D: A Case Study on Technology-intensive Firms of Daeduck Research Complex, Korea

연구개발성과의 산업화를 위한 네트워크 활성화 방안: 대덕연구단지의 기술집약적 벤처기업을 중심으로

It has been thirty years since Daedeuk Science Park was established in Daejeon, Korea. The Park has grown to be a national center for scientific activities, hosting more thirty research institutes at major scale with 12,000 scientists. As a main purpose of establishing the science park was to promote sciences as basic research, there have not been much economic impacts created from the science park. There have also been very little networks established among research and educational institutes within the science park and the city of Daejeon in general. After the economic crisis in 1997, however, there have been increasing changes around the Park. Since then more than 400 technology-intensive firms were newly created, mainly from the research institutes, or introduced to the Park area. This paper analyzes R&D networks of these small firms, especially with research institutes and universities, based on a questionnaire survey. The paper has argued: 1) to establish technology transfer centers, 2) to emphasize research related to commercialization, 3) to intensify advertizement of research outputs to the potential entrepreneurs, 4) to assist entrepreneural associations of concerned companies.