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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2018.19.3.75

Capacity Building Programs for Emerging Countries by the Korean Regional Innovation Model: Policy Analysis and Suggestions  

Kim, Hak-Min (Department of Public Administration, Soonchunhyang University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.19, no.3, 2018 , pp. 75-82 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, emerging countries have been paying attention to Korean economic development policy, trying to adopt the Korean regional innovation model. Korea is also interested in exporting its regional innovation model and enhancing economic cooperation with those countries. This paper aims to analyze the capacity-building programs of the Korean regional innovation model for emerging countries and suggests policies for it. For this purpose, the local innovators' participation patterns in the process of collaborative learning/networking/interaction are investigated with a focused group-interview method. From an analysis of the programs supported by Korean organizations, this study finds that the correlation coefficient between the training time of capacity building and the participation rate of local members' collaborative learning is very high (0.975). Since the correlation coefficient between the participation rates of collaborative learning and networking is relatively low (0.667), a policy to link local collaborative learning to networking should be provided. As the correlation coefficient between the participation rates of networking and interaction is high (0.950), networking is a key to regional innovation. This study recommends activity programs to promote networking among local innovators, rather than training and consulting programs. As introduced in the Chungnam Techno Park case, this study suggests that the capacity-building program should include programs to initiate a collaborative learning network, to create a local-demand, regional innovation model, and to operate the regional innovation platform, which should be done by local innovators in the emerging countries.
Keywords
Capacity Building for Emerging Countries; Economic Development of Emerging Countries; Innovation Promotion Policy; Korean Regional Innovation Model; Technology Park;
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