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A Study on the Success Factors of National R&D Commercialization in Agriculture

농업 분야 국가 R&D 기술이전 사업화 성공 요인 분석

  • Yeongheon Song (Department of Venture and Start-up, Korea Agriculture Technology Promotion Agency) ;
  • Jungin Lee (Department of Venture and Start-up, Korea Agriculture Technology Promotion Agency) ;
  • Junki Kim (Department of Venture and Start-up, Korea Agriculture Technology Promotion Agency) ;
  • Euiung Hwang (Department of Venture and Start-up, Korea Agriculture Technology Promotion Agency) ;
  • Inyong Eom (Department of Venture and Start-up, Korea Agriculture Technology Promotion Agency)
  • 송영헌 (한국농업기술진흥원 벤처창업본부) ;
  • 이정인 (한국농업기술진흥원 벤처창업본부) ;
  • 김준기 (한국농업기술진흥원 벤처창업본부) ;
  • 황의웅 (한국농업기술진흥원 벤처창업본부) ;
  • 엄인용 (한국농업기술진흥원 벤처창업본부)
  • Received : 2023.07.26
  • Accepted : 2023.08.24
  • Published : 2023.09.30
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Abstract

This study identifies the commercialization success factors that can be an important indicator for the transfer and commercialization of national R&D results in the agricultural sector. Unlike other industries, the agricultural sector has a non-systematically scaled and processed industrial structure, and R&D is led by government rather than the private sector. Although the quantitative performance of national agricultural R&D, especially the number of patents and publications, has increased rapidly with the quantitative expansion of the government R&D budget, the technology commercialization of the results of agricultural R&D has been accompanied by difficulties for SMEs. Therefore, this study summarized the success factors for commercialization of state-owned technologies presented in previous studies, and based on them, analysed the success factors for commercialization specific to the agricultural sector. It also conducted a questionnaire survey using Delphi and focus group interviews (FGI) with experts from academia, research and industry, and a survey of agricultural companies to derive success factors for commercialization in the agricultural sector using logistic regression analysis. As a result, five indicators with positive correlation and three indicators with negative correlation within technology characteristics, suppliers, adopters, policy and market factors were finally derived as key factors for agricultural commercialization. In the future, it is expected that independent factor analysis of the food and seed sectors, which have independent industry characteristics from the agricultural sector, will be needed.

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Acknowledgement

This paper is an extended version of the work "Exploring the Factors Affecting Commercialization in National R&D Technology Transfer: Focusing on Non-Food Agriculture Sector" presented at the Fall Conference of the Korea Society of Innovation in 2022. This work was carried out with the support of "A study of Improvement for Agri. R&D Success Ratio of Commercialization (Project No. RS-2022-RD010152)" Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea.

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