• Venture DIGEST
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• s.63
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• pp.18-19
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• 2004

신행정수도 건설사업 중단 등의 난관에도 불구하고 노무현 대통령은 참여정부의 주요 국정과제 중 하나인 국가균형발전과 지역혁신전략을 흔들림 없이 추진할 것임을 분명히 밝혔다. 국민소득 2만달러 시대를 열기위해서는 지방이 국가발전을 견인하는 혁신거점으로 거듭나야하며, 이런 의미에서‘국가균형발전과 지역혁신 클러스터의 구축’은 매우 중요하다. 국가균형발전의 성공전략으로 손꼽히는 지역혁신 클러스터의 구축방향에 대한 의견과 제안을 협회 김태희 부회장에게 들어보자.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.232-242
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• 2021

The aim of this article is to examine the role of Gyeonggi Province in the industrial development in the Republic of Korea by taking a case study of the program of the national innovative cluster (NIC). In such program which has been for the purpose of the regional industrial development for non-Seoul metropolitan regions (N-SMRs) since 2018, the total firms' transactions were highly focused upon Gyeonggi Province and other Seoul metropolitan regions (SMRs). Especially, firms' transactions in 5 clusters of the total 14 clusters concentrated on Gyeonggi Province. Within this context, the future direction of this policy program for the regional industrial development and the national balanced development is more focused upon a win-win strategy between the SMR and N-SMRs rather than the dichotomy between them.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.193-202
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• 2011

We study the casual relationship between characteristics and effectiveness of NamDong Cluster in Incheon by using factor analysis in order to suggest, it is hoped, an alternative way to form innovative regional or national cluster. The findings of the study is that several factors such as cluster networking, collective learning, innovation synergy, localization, are critical factors to corporate performance. Also, cooperation between big enterprises and small and medium enterprises is the major influential factor so that financial and institutional supports for co-works or co-program development among enterprises are suggested.

• Journal of the Korean Academic Society of Industrial Cluster
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.1-15
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• 2007

Regional innovation and cluster policies are the new agenda of regional policy, an agenda that began to spread over recent years throughout different countries and regions. In this context, our main question arises: how are we going to evaluate regional innovation and cluster policies? What models and methods are we going to use? Since 1990, regional and national governments have put more emphasis on evaluation as a tool directed to produce knowledge to design better policies. The objective of this article is to summarise the main challenges arising from the evaluation of regional innovation and cluster policies and make some methodological proposals that can contribute to produce better evaluations. In the first section, there is a brief presentation of regional innovation and cluster policies, followed by a more detailed analysis, in the second section, of their principal characteristics and of the main challenges posed by their evaluation. In the third section, some evaluation proposals that can help to improve current evaluation practice are presented. The paper concludes with a short number of general recommendations that we should bear in mind when designing an evaluation of regional innovation and cluster policies.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.377-393
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• 2007

National balanced development and regional innovation have been one of the most important national agendas under the Participatory Government. National balanced development gives a central focus on realizing self-sustaining localization which is based on regional innovation. The core policy goal is to build competitive regional innovation system and innovative clusters in the regions of the country. In this vein, this paper aims to evaluate the present government's policies of regional innovation and innovative cluster. It needs to point out that the regional innovation and cluster policies show some critical problems. Firstly, the policy-making process is based on the top-down approach rather than the bottom-up one. Secondly, regional innovation policies, in many cases, expose the redundancy of similar policies and a lack of linkages between similar policies. Thirdly, the regional innovation policies are too much social infrastructure building-centered, even though the basic principle of regional innovation policy should be based on building superstructure such as networking and social capital.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.149-163
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• 2023

The policy of promoting innovation clusters aims to enhance the competitiveness of industries by strengthening the linkages between industry sectors and research sectors in specific regions. In Korea, after the concept of innovation clusters was introduced by the OECD in 1997, Korean government actively pursued policies based on this concept in the fields of industry, region, and science and technology. Previous policies and research on the activation of innovation clusters have tended to focus on the exchange and collaboration among members. However, this study focused on enhancing the competitiveness of industries and regions, in other words, strengthening the competitiveness of companies, which is the fundamental reason for fostering innovative clusters. Accordingly, this study aimed to analyze the impact of factors activating innovation clusters on the business performance of SMEs located in the Daedeok Innopolis. To achieve this, based on the essential concept of innovation clusters such as industrial agglomeration factors, networking factors, innovation generation factors, the study derived factors for activating innovation clusters and verified hypotheses using the survey results of 175 companies. Among the factors activating innovation clusters, industrial agglomeration and innovation generation were found to have a positive impact on the business performance of companies. However, networking factors were analyzed to have no significant influence on the business performance of companies. This study differentiates itself by addressing the factors for activating innovation clusters through empirical analysis, unlike previous case-based studies. Furthermore, considering the difference between intuitive judgments on networking factors in innovation clusters and their actual impact on business performance, the study raised the practical significance of conducting a comprehensive examination from various perspectives, such as the socially and culturally embedded structures in the region, the characteristics of specialized industries, and the needs of cluster members, to develop more effective policies for innovation clusters.

• Korea Trade Review
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.237-256
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• 2017

The members of Food Valley in Netherlands recognised that the networking function is the most important among demand articulation, network formation and innovation-process support. Furthermore, SMEs expect the support of internationalization from Food Valley organization. It is expected that the function of Food Valley which can establish effective network and environment for open innovation will be more significant in the future. Our government also designated Iksan as a national food cluster for preparing the growth of international food market and promoting the effective growth of domestic food industry. As noted earlier in the case of Food Valley, the government should make Iksan Cluster focus on building network for innovation and development of domestic food industry through making innovative environment between food industry and local university. And then, this food cluster will become the center of export of food products and sophistication of domestic food sector.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2017.08a
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• pp.17-30
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• 2017

지역단위의 분권화에 따라 각 지역적 상황과 산업적 시장적 환경과 내생적인 역량을 바탕으로 혁신클러스터 성장전략을 수립하는 것이 국가 및 지역의 발전전략에 필요한 보편적인 혁신전략이 되었다. 본 연구는 부산지역 혁신시스템의 구성요소인 대기업 및 벤처기업 근무자를 대상으로 혁신클러스터의 평가요인에 대하여 정책적 지원 제도, 사회적 인프라, 혁신주체 간 네트워크 환경과 각 요인별 세부 항목에 대하여 중요성을 판단하고 정책적인 시사점을 획득하고자 하였다. 방법적으로는 부산지역 대기업 및 벤처기업 종사자 20명을 대상으로 한 설문 응답 결과를 AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process)를 이용하여 결과를 도출하였고, 그 결과 혁신주체 간 네트워크 환경이 가장 중요한 요소이며 그 중 공동연구 및 기술협력 부문이 가장 중요한 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구를 통하여 부산지역의 특성을 충분히 고려한 지역혁신시스템의 강점과 취약점을 분석하고 정책적으로 더 강화시켜나가야 할 부분을 확인할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1872-1884
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 국가경쟁력 향상 및 지역발전 전략의 일환으로 유럽에서는 이미 오래전부터 시작된 클러스터구축전략을 대상으로 하고 있다. 특히 20세기 말 경제의 세계화 과정과 함께 지리적 개념을 뛰어넘는 지속발전 가능한 혁신클러스터 구축이 중요한 연구대상으로 형성되고 있다. 이중 미국의 첨단산업의 메카인 실리콘밸리와 경쟁관계에 있는 스웨덴의 시스타 사이언스시티는 우리에게 많은 점을 시사할 수 있다.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.373-395
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• 2004

In year 2003, the Daedeok Science Town(DST) has celebrated its 30 years of anniversary and achievement in science and technology development. However, there is a criticism that DST has not played its expected role in Korea's National Innovation System. Recognizing this criticism, the development of DST was evaluated in the perspective of innovation cluster. The research shows that DST has been following the downstream path of evolution - from S＆T development to business development - and is in the early stage of R＆D-driven Innovation Cluster. Not only the development factors of DST innovation cluster were identified but the DST was compared with other internationally recognized innovation clusters. Finally, it is suggested that the business related functions should receive due attention in innovation cluster policy.