• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.493-514
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• 2012

Research collaboration between industry and universities is high on many policy agenda's nowadays, especially with regard to science-based technological innovation. Nonetheless, there have been few attempts at examining large-scale systematic and quantitative data on the nature and extent of university-industry collaborations. The objective of this paper is to explore the patterns and trends of research collaborations between universities and companies for scientific knowledge production in the seven science-based technologies. This paper uses co-authored articles published in major scientific journals in the world as an indicator of collaborative scientific research between universities, companies and governmental research institutes. The tens of thousands of co-authorship papers in the northeast region in the US over the years 2006 to 2010 were analyzed for collaboration patterns and their spatial characteristics. This paper finds that there were increases both in the proportions of multiple authored, particularly five or more, papers, and in the volume of international collaborations. By examining a type of collaborations between different institutions, research collaboration between universities and companies in this region is relatively high share at national level. This suggests that the national or even international scale seems more appropriate for innovation policies.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.516-551
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• 2011

This study analysed the institutional evolution of Korea's international cooperation of science and technology (S&T) from the viewpoint of the historical institutionalism. For this, it examined Korea's institutions for international S&T cooperation by dividing the whole period from the Korean war to the present into five sub-periods; period of technology aids, technology transfer, mutual cooperation, expanded cooperation, and highly sophisticated cooperation, respectively. It, then, reviewed the evolving process and characteristics of each period. In this study, the structure (environment), the actor (government), the institution of higher rank (science & technology policy) were considered as variables influencing upon the institutions of the international S&T cooperation. Upon this assumption, this study analysed how and through what evolutionary process the international S&T cooperation institutions have evolved so far. This study obtained the following conclusions; First, the study confirmed the existence of the "institutional layering" in the institutions of the international S&T cooperation in Korea. The momentums for the change of the institutions of the international S&T cooperation stem from international environment and domestic economic environment. They influence upon economic policy, industrial policy, and S&T policy, which, together with the actor (the government), again brings about the institutional evolution of the international S&T cooperation. Second, the institutional evolution of the international S&T cooperation is taking place gradually. As mentioned above, the momentums for the change of the institutions of the international S&T cooperation originate from international and domestic macro environment. These momentums do not directly influence upon the institutions of the international S&T cooperation, rather they give indirect influence, through other related institutions, upon the institutions of the international S&T cooperation and make its gradual change or evolution. This is because the institutions of the international S&T cooperation have the "institutional layering".

• The Science & Technology
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• v.30 no.2 s.333
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• pp.18-19
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• 1997

고도산업사회에서 전문가의 역할은 절대적이며 그 사회의 주체가 되어야 한다. 기술자는 자긍심을 갖고 현실에 참여해야 하며 협력하는 사회의 기초적인 역할을 감당해야 한다. 협력의 기초는 정직성과 근면성 그리고 신뢰성이라 할 수 있다.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.638-655
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• 2010

The importance of international science and technology cooperation is growing more and more, but we do not know much about what criteria could be used to choose a science or a technology that needs international cooperation first and foremost among many kinds of competing sciences and technologies. Moreover, this selection process is affected by evaluators' or science/technology experts' perception, but we do not quite know what they actually see when they evaluate the needs of international cooperation. This study investigates the conditions that international science and technology cooperation is encouraged by scholars and researchers in various areas. Based on theoretical arguments of Transaction Cost Economics, Measurement View, and Knowledge-Based View, we drew hypotheses on when experts perceive greater needs of international cooperation. Using the classification categories of 10 major sciences and technologies, we collected data from 151 respondents from scientists in research institutions and colleges. As a result, we found that experts in science and technology areas perceive strong needs of international cooperation when the importance of focal science or technology is high and the relative national level of focal science or technology is low. Also, we found that the importance and relative level of focal science and technology have positive moderating effects each other. Lastly, we found that when experts evaluate their own major areas, the strength of positive relationship between the importance of science and technology and needs of international cooperation is diminished.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.27 no.1 s.296
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• pp.39-43
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• 1994

한국과학기술단체총연합회는 북한의 과학기술에 대한 실상을 올바로 이해하고 남북간의 협력방안을 모색하기 위한 「북한의 과학기술과 남북교류정책」에 관한 워크숍을 12월8일 타워호텔에서 개최했다. 이날 워크숍에서는 과총이 그동안 북한과학기술의 실상에 관한 연구와 남북한 비교조사연구를 각 분야별로 전문가들에게 의뢰하고 그 연구결과를 순차적으로 발표키로 함에 따라 올해에는 9개분야의 연구결과가 발표됐다. 그중 ▲과학기술정책분야를 비롯 ▲천문학 ▲기상 및 대기환경 ▲원자력 ▲전자공학 및 정보공학 ▲한의학등 6개분야의 연구결과를 요약, 소개한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Library and Information Science Society Conference
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• 1997.12a
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• pp.21-48
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• 1997

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.641-657
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• 2015

Nowadays research collaboration between the business, academic and governmental community is high on the policy agenda in all over the world, especially with regard to science-based technological innovation. The aim of this paper is to explore some of the changing spatial patterns of research collaboration by carrying out bibliometric analysis of co-authorship publications in major international and scientific journals that are jointly realized by Korean scientists and researchers in the seven science-based technologies for the period 2002~2012. Using the co-authored papers as an indicator of research collaboration with the institutional address of each co-authoring researcher and the geographic location of their affiliation, this paper describes some trends and patterns of domestic and international research collaborations. Identifying a rapid increase in the volume of co-authored papers and the trend towards multiple authorships over the last decade, the paper finds collaborative scientific research to be geographically dispersed at the different spatial scales. Despite the rising geographic dispersion of research collaboration within the nation, this paper finds that there were empirical evidences for the presence of localized knowledge production processes at regional level, and biased knowledge flows towards core areas with advanced research resources.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.1-18
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• 1993

It is just two years that our country drived forward the project acquiring and using the scientific and technological information of the former USSR. The activities acquiring information are necessary to stir up the scientific and technological cooperation with the former USSR. But it is impossible for any man or institution to accomplish the activities acquiring the scientific and technological information of the former USSR, on the whole, considering political and economic confusion, perfect security policy, and 6,000 research institutes in the former USSR and so on. Thus the support of specialists and budgets should be realized in the national level, along with taking a proper step on mutual cooperation between the related institutions.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.39-73
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• 2021

The cooperative network structure influences the academic performance of the research institute. In particular, South Korea's Government-Funded Research Institutes(GRI) need to establish an efficient cooperative system as a leading national R&D implementer. This study applied the Small World structure, which has been discussed as an efficient network structure, and the centrality of representing the characteristics of nodes to the cooperative network of GRI in Korea. Based on the SCIE published data from 2010 to 2019, we analyze how the Small World characteristics and centrality of GRI contribute to academic performance using a network analysis and Feasible GLS regression. The GRI cooperative network has shown that the Small World network structure facilitates the academic performance. In addition, centrality indicating the degree of direct connection showed positive significance, but centrality indicating the degree of intermediary was not significant or negative. The results of this study explain that the higher the number of institutions that exchange and cooperate, the higher the academic performance, and the higher the performance of the institutions that serve as the center of cooperation. In addition, it was established that the stronger the cooperative network of GRIs have the characteristics of Small World, the more effective it is to create research results. This study applies centrality and Small World previously discussed as an efficient network structure to the GRI cooperation network and provide implications for establishing policies and strategies related to R&D cooperation among GRIs.

• Science & Technology Policy
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• v.2 no.24 s.24
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• pp.3-7
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• 1992