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Transferring Innovation Capacities to Developing Countries: A KIST-based Strategy

기술혁신역량의 개도국 전수를 위한 전략 연구: KIST사례를 중심으로

  • 이창근 (한국과학기술연구원 인재개발실) ;
  • 김종주 (한국과학기술연구원) ;
  • 정선양 (건국대학교 기술경영학과)
  • Received : 2017.05.03
  • Accepted : 2017.07.31
  • Published : 2017.09.30
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Abstract

Great attention has been paid to absorptive capacity (AC) as a means of technological innovation. However, few developing countries have demonstrated real success in the development of their technologies and economies. Global issues such as climate change, contagious disease, etc. require more active cooperation between developing and developed countries. This paper makes the novel argument that the donor's transplanting capacity (TC) should be developed and coevolved in concert with the recipient country's AC. Review of the literature shows that AC depends on a prior knowledge base and an intensity of effort. In this article, we analysed the case of KIST and suggest that codification of development experience, localization of innovation capacity, and donor committment comprise the core elements of TC. Nonaka (1994) argued that interaction between tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge can synergize to increase the overall store of available knowledge. Development experience, which leans heavily toward tacit knowledge, should be transformed into explicit knowledge for more efficient technology diffusion. The technological environments of recipient countries vary from those of their donors, which is why innovation capacity should conform to local conditions in order to make transplantation smoother. Donor committment is also critical for successfully transmitting valuable experience.

흡수역량(absorptive capacity)에 관한 활발한 연구에도 불구하고 선 후진국 간의 빈부격차는 심화되고 있으며, 일부 성공사례를 제외하면 개발도상국의 기술혁신 역량의 향상은 기대수준에 미치지 못하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 KIST 설립 사례를 분석하여 개발도상국 측의 흡수역량과 더불어 선진국 측의 새로운 역량이 필요함을 주장하고, 이를 '공유역량(transplanting capacity)'이라 명명 하였다. 기존 연구에서 밝혀진 흡수역량의 핵심요소, 즉 사전지식의 정도 및 노력의 강도에 대비되는 공유역량의 핵심요소로서 개발경험의 성문화(codification), 현지화(localization), 그리고 의지(committment)가 필요함을 제시하였다. 지구 온난화 및 감염성 질병 등 글로벌 이슈에 공동대처, IT기술의 발달 및 신생기술의 출현에 의한 개도국의 혁신 가능성 확대, 개도국 시장의 성장 가능성은 공유역량의 확보가 개도국지원 차원뿐만 아니라 선진국 자신을 위해서 반드시 갖추어야 할 역량임을 보여준다.

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