• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.31-59
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• 2011

This paper examines university patenting activities as a commercialization of academic research. It shows how a number of university patents increase exponentially and how that can be, especially in terms of role of the state. In the late 1990, the Korean government supports the new vision of 'technological innovation' in establishing a science and technological policy and begins to perceive the importance of university R&D to overcome the economic crisis. Thus, an administrative, financial, and legal systems which support the university R&D are organized and the governmental grants for R&D increase exponentially, especially in promising new technologies(6T). Also, an institution for managing intellectual property rights is established in university. Universities assess professor's performance in terms of patent and license to encourage patenting activities. Thus the number of patents and its productivity increase exponentially. But the increase in patents takes place only to a dozen of universities, this means that a Matthew effect does work.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.115-151
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• 2010

Recently Korean universities show very rapid increases in both patents and R&D (research and development) expenditures. During the period from 1970 to 2008, university R&D spending has on the average increased 15.3% annually. Along with steady increases in R&D spending, university's research outputs have also continuously increased. In 1990 Korea as a total published 1,613 SCI-level scientific papers and Korean universities applied 27 patents to Korea patent office. In 2008, Korea published more that 35,000 SCI papers and Korean universities applied about 7,300 patents. The growth of scientific articles had begun from the early 1990s whereas the growth of patent has ignited entering the 2000s. The paper tried to investigate university research through the window of patent. Patents lie between invention and innovation and represent the potential value of invention which will be realized at the marketplace. Since Korean patents do not contain citation information, the paper used US patents-NBER patent database-as the main data. The key empirical question is whether Korean university patents granted from USPTO are characteristically different from other Korean patents granted from USPTO. Previous studies on US and Europe show that corporate patents are more stylized in appropriablity of invention, whereas university patents basicness. In case of Korea, the paper confirmed the appropriability characteristic of corporate patents; but the Korean unversity patents are not distinguishable in terms of basicness. The paper estimated the citation frequency function-an empirical model which was firstly developed by Caballero and Jaffe (1993) and later articulated by Jaffe and Trajtenberg (1996, 2002). The model is specified mainly composed of two interacting parts-diffusion effect and obsolescence effect of new ideas or innovations. Estimation results show that differences in forward citations between university and corporate patents are not statistically significant, after controlling self-citation. Since forward citations represent the quality of patents, this estimation result implies that there are no statistically significant quality differences between university and corporate patents. Prior research results, based on the same model of citation frequency function, about US and some European cases show that, in terms of forward citations, university patents are generally superior to corporate patents -for the case of US- or, the former not inferior to the latter-for the case of most of Europe. It is argued that some important and significant policy changes caused the rapid rise of university patents in Korea. Policy changes include the revision of technology transfer act allowing the ownership of publicly-funded research results to researchers and the changes in faculty/professor evaluation which gives more credit to the number of patents. These policy changes have triggered the rapid growth of the number of university patents. The results of the empirical analysis in this paper indicated that Korea now needs to make further efforts to enhance the quality of university patents, not just to produce more numbers of patents.

• The Inventors News
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• no.57
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• pp.1-16
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• 2007

매니페스토 물결운동 동참/발행인 칼럼/일본 특허출원 "더 편리하고, 빨라진다"/지식재산 전문인력육성 추진기획단 발족/한반도 평화지도 여성이 그리자/꿈의 사업 시제품제작/구체적 이념 정책에 반영되도록 압력.감시/"한국형 매니페스토 정착시킬 것"/전국 5개도시 각 60시간 과정, 11월경 자격시험 거쳐 배출/"영재교육 붐 일고 있듯 발명창의교육도 붐 일 것"/"발명창의성 교육 중점 강의"/"자격증 따서 아이들 가르칠 거예요"/특허청 30주년 기념 엠블럼/특허청 대학 특허교육 지원 강화/특허서식, 민원인이 작성하기 쉽도록 개편/'미특허소송판례' 9월부터 온라인 무료서비스/서울대 등 주요대학 특허교육 확산/'2007 상표-디자인전' 8월2일 개최/역사 속의 발명품/하루 10분 발명교실/특허Q&A/국회 산자위 소속 김태년 의원/대학 중점 연구분야 특허지도 그린다/차세대 'IPTV' 특허출원 대폭 증가/아이디어 착상 및 발명기법/"지금은 여성발명가 시대" 정부의 관심이 필요하다/도마크의 크론토질/화폐 위조방지 기술 특허출원 동향/여성발명기업 육성 방안 등 논의/협회 대구지역 모임 활발/특허청, 기술사업화 중매 선다/지역명성 상표권으로 재탄생/한국여성발명협회 회원사 발명품 가이드

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.315-324
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to present the future directions for strengthening the TLO(Technology licensing office)s' expertise of universities by examining the impact on utilizing the university management experts for patents and technology transfer. To identify the specific effects of dispatching patent management experts, this study was conducted under various conditions, such as the dispatch status, the dispatching duration of patent management experts and the starting year of dispatching them. The data were analyzed by utilizing the data of the KIPSI's supporting program of dispatching the patent management expert to universities and the data of University Information Disclosure site. The data from a total of 110 four-year universities from 2008 to 2013 were used. According to the analysis result, the technology transfer's performance and technology transfer's income of universities of utilizing the patent management experts compared to universities not utilizing them appeared to be high. Technology transfer and technology transfer income appeared to be higher with a longer period of utilizing the patent management expert at university. This suggests that the direction is required to provide the plan for a longer period to maximize the effect of the program "The dispatching a patent management expert". The technology transfer's performance and technology transfer's income did not increase according to the year of dispatched the patent management expert at the university. A comparison of before and after dispatching, the technology transfer performance appeared to be high after dispatch. This suggests that the effects of dispatching the patent management experts at a university can be interpreted as a subsequent effect, rather than an immediate effect. Therefore, it does not simply limit the effectiveness of the dispatch business in the short term, but it needs to activate the technology transfer organization, such as a patent management expert in the long term.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.1-28
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• 2017

Today, according to the increased importance of industry-university cooperation in the knowledge-based economy, support and the number of researches involved in industry-university cooperation has also steadily increased. But it is true that profits from the outcome of patents resulting from such cooperation, such as technology transfer and royalty fees, are lower than they are supposed to be, because of excessive patents applications, although some of them have little commercial potential. Therefore, this research aims to suggest a way to analyze and recognize patents, which enable efficient industry-university cooperation and technology transfer. For the analysis, data on 1,061 patents was collected from 4 different universities. With the data, a quality-strategy matrix was arranged targeting the industry-university cooperation foundations', US patents owned by universities, text mining, and social network analysis were carried out, particularly focusing on the patents in the advanced quality technology section of the matrix. Then core key words and IPC codes were obtained and key patents were analyzed by universities. As a result of the analysis, it was found that 4 key patents, 2 key IPC codes were drawn for University H, 4 key patents, 2 key IPC codes for University K, 6 key patents, 1 key IPC code for University Y, 14 key patents, and 2 key IPC codes for University S. This research is expected to have a great significance in contributing to the invigoration of industry-university cooperation based on the analysis result on patents and IPC codes, which enable efficient industry-university cooperation and technology transfer.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.123-149
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• 2015

Even though papers and patents generated by public research institutions including universities are continuously increasing in Korea, commercialization of research outputs is significantly lower than developed countries. Therefore, it is very important to improve the effectiveness of technology licensing offices(TLOs) of universities. In this study, we study effects of the patent manager dispatch program(PMDP) of the Korean Patent Office(KPO) on the performance of TLOs. KPO has dispatched patent experts to selected TLOs under the PMSD since 2006. Based on data of 126 TLOs, we analysed whether the PMSD has improved the performances of beneficiary TLOs. We tested two related hypotheses: (1)Whether or not a TLO received the dispatch service had effects on its performance? (2)Were early beneficiaries more effective than late beneficiaries or non-beneficiaries because of cumulative learning effects? The main findings are as follows. The past experience in itself did not improve performances of beneficiary TLOs. However, early beneficiaries were better than late beneficiaries or non-beneficiaries, that is, some learning effects might help the beneficiary TLOs improve their performances.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.51-61
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• 2020

Ever since the Act on the Promotion of Industrial Education and Industry-Academic Cooperation (IAC) was enacted in 2003, domestic universities have been focusing on commercialization research that can be applied to basic research industries by collaborating with industry and government agencies. Despite these efforts, the ratio of technology transfer and commercialization through IAC is low. Most technology transfer and technology commercialization studies have derived core technologies by analyzing the applied patents. First, this study collected expired patents from major domestic universities, compared quality characteristics of the expired and live patents, and finally found key patents among expired patents in order to identify companies and fields of application to which the patents can be utilized. The results of the study focus on expired university patents in terms of methodology and present a framework to identify patents capable of continuous IAC and technology transfer and match them with those in need. The results of this study are expected to contribute to increasing the efficiency of technology commercialization.

• The Inventors News
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• no.8
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• pp.2-2
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• 2003

한국, LCD 산업 특허로도 정복한다 - 진양제약 백혈병 치료법 특허 출원 - 국내기업 디지털TV 기술 원천특허 소수 - `아스파라긴 소주` 특허 분쟁 벌어졌다 - 새로 태어나는 대학 특허 - 보안기술 특허출원 감소세로 전환

• 발명특허
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• v.14 no.5 s.159
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• pp.15-15
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• 1989

• The Inventors News
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• no.28
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• pp.3-4
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• 2004

한국발명진흥회 사이버국제아카데미 통해 대학 지재권 교육에 앞장 - 특허넷, 전 세계 특허시스템으로 발돋움 하다 - 특허청 홈페이지, 고객 중심 사이트로 전면 개편 - 국감 통해 특허계 발전 논의 - WIPO$\cdot$한국특허청 전자출원 처리 소프트웨어 공동 개발 - 특허청 전상우 특허청 차장 송주현 특허심판원장 승진 임명 - 아이스텍, 냉각캔 개발하고도 부정적 인식에 냉가슴 - 웰빙 시대의 바퀴 바람, 인라인 스케이트 - `큰 마음이 낳은 위대한 발명품`