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The Effect of Centralities of Alliance Network on Innovation Performace in Korean Defense Industry  

Ahn, Hoil (국방기술품질원, 성균관대학교 기술경영학과)
Kim, Changone (계명대학교 산학협력단)
Lee, Heesang (성균관대학교 기술경영학과)
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Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society / v.18, no.2, 2015 , pp. 292-317 More about this Journal
Abstract
As modern science and technology and warfare become to be advanced and precise, the weapon systems becomes more complex based on state-of-the-art technology. Therefore, firms in the defense industry continue to accelerate research and development for up-to-date weapon systems with high complexity which urge the firms to collaborate with the external organizations to obtain the knowledge required and eventually to reduce costs and risk. This study tries an empirical study about the effect of collaboration on the innovation performances from the network analysis perspective. By surveying collaboration relationships among 530 firms in the Korean defense industry, we analyzed the alliance network of the defense industry. Network centrality including degree, closeness, and betweenness centralities is investigated and then the relationship among the network centrality property, internal R&D capabilities and innovation is analysed. The results show that firms with high internal R&D capabilities place the firm at center of the network. On the other hand, except for the firms with highly connected centrality, no relationship was found between the internal R&D capabilities and its performance and in turn. these capabilities had both direct and indirect effects on innovation performances through mediated collaboration among firms. This study implied that Korean firms with a high internal R&D capabilities in the defense industry which utilize knowledge, information and resources within the network more frequently show more innovative performance. This result claims the policy makers to participate more firms in fostering open innovation for the defense industry.
Keywords
Defense Industry; Alliance Network; Network Centralities; Innovaton Performance;
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