• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.35-64
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• 2022

Currently, The budget expenditure for national R&D has been on the rise, and the quantitative performance in national R&D programs has been increasing accordingly. However, a growth of qualitative performance can not reach to an upward trend of quantitative performance. For a poor qualitative performance such as patent grades and technologies with low efficiency of technology transfer, the performance evaluation centered on "number of cases" is necessary to improve and start to introduce various "qualitative performance indicators". This paper focuses on "Triadic Patent Families" being measurable the overseas competitiveness of patent applied in major countries(the US, Europe and Japan). It analyzes the influencing factors to evaluate the quality of qualitative performance of R&D program. The result of this analysis shows a significant effect on the creating of triadic patent families within factors of R&D scale and project characteristics. This paper is significantly meaningful to expand insufficient triadic patent families to the target of interest rather than early study relatively, and to analyze the influencing factors of the creation of triadic patent families.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.280-301
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• 2016

The competition environment among companies is rapidly expanding into the world market. Therefore, this study intended to suggest an analysis method of patent portfolio that can compare an international technological capacity through empirical analysis on the global automobile companies. This study measured international patent activity using triadic patent data of 20 years from 1991 to 2010, and measured patent quality from legal, technological and economic aspects. As a result, Ford and GM, automobile companies of America, are analyzed to be the potential leaders with greatly increased patent quality. The significance of this study is in measuring international patent activities between global companies from different countries based on the triadic patent. And, this study suggested methods of analyzing patent quality consistently from legal, technological and economic aspects based on the triadic patent.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.89-102
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 주요국에 대한 녹색기술 경쟁력을 살펴보기 위해 특허 인용 네트워크 위상 기반 핵심 특허 지표를 제안하고, 이를 활용하여 핵심 기술 경쟁력 지수를 구축하였으며, 유럽 특허청에 출원된 녹색 기술 특허 정보를 활용하여 녹색기술 특허 출원 상위 20개국에 대한 기술경쟁력을 측정하였다. 분석 결과 일본, 미국, 독일, 프랑스가 녹색기술 전반에 걸쳐 많은 특허를 출원하고 있는 것으로 나타났는데, 기술경쟁력을 측정 결과는 전반적으로 기술분야별 특허 출원 건수 측면에서 높은 순위에 위치하였던 일본, 독일, 미국의 경쟁력이 높게 나타나고 있는 가운데, 영향력과 위상적 핵심성에서 상대적으로 높은 평가를 받은 스페인, 핀란드 등의 국가들이 상위에 위치하고, 상대적으로 낮은 평가를 받은 미국 및 프랑스의 경우에는 낮은 순위에 위치하는 것을 확인할 수 있다. 우리나라는 E(배출가스저감기술) 분야에서 3위, G(배출가스저감기술) 분야에서 4위에 위치하여 높은 경쟁력을 보이고 있으며, C(배출완화 연소기술) 분야 및 D(기후변화완화기술) 분야에서는 각각 7위와 8위의 기술경쟁력 수준을 갖고 있는 반면, A(환경관리기술) 분야, B(신재생에너지기술) 분야, F(배출가스 저감 및 고효율화 교통기술) 분야에서는 낮은 경쟁력을 갖고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 실증 분석에 활용한 유럽 특허청에 출원된 특허 정보의 한계로 인해 일부 국가들의 기술경쟁력 측정에 있어서 편의가 나타날 우려가 발견되었는데, 향후 삼극특허 정보 등을 활용하는 방식으로 이러한 문제점을 보완하면 보다 정확한 기술경쟁력 측정이 가능하리라 예상한다.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.105-128
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• 2012

This paper proposes the technological level assessment which improved reliability and the efficient noise elimination methods in the process of establishing patent map analysis data. In order to eliminate efficiently noise (removed by the manual process in the past), the paper applies the Logical Operator 'AND', makes it a program in excel VBA(Visual Basic Application), and obtains the valid data. For the improved reliability technological level assessment of the patents, the study calculates average number of claims, Patent Family Size(PFS), Cites Per Patent (CPP), Triad Patent Families, Standardization Patent Diversification Index (stdPCPI), and haF-index(Hirsch a Family index). The result which applied noise exclusion work showed less than 10% of acquired patent data ratio and confirmed high reliability. The result that apply proposed technological level assessment index makes sure that balanced technological level assessment which improved reliability by producing synthetic technological level assessment.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.25-44
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• 2014

This study analyzed technological competitiveness of five major countries by using patent information that is typical intellectual property. Technological activity, patent competitiveness, market securement and patent concentration were designed as evaluation items for the technological competitiveness analysis, and the number of patent applications, family patents and triad patent families, and the paten concentration index were reflected as evaluation factors to be scored. For technologies to be analyzed, it referred to the energy harvesting technologies selected as 500 future technologies in the future technologic white paper 2013 published by KISTI. They were classified into technologies using thermoelectric, piezoelectric and photovoltaic elements, which are main detailed technologies of the energy harvesting technology, to investigate and analyze patent information for each detailed technology to understand their technological competitiveness. As a result, the United States ranked top with 75 and 70 points in the technology using thermoelectric and piezoelectric elements respectively, and Japan ranked top with 90 points in the energy harvesting technology using photovoltaic elements. It was analyzed that Korea held the second rank in the field using piezoelectric and photovoltaic elements, and the fifth in the technology using thermoelectric elements.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.55-73
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• 2024

Unicorn companies are attracting attention around the world as they are recognized for their high corporate value in a short period of time as an innovative business models. Their growth process presents good lessons for the startup ecosystem and have a positive impact on national economic development and job creation. However, previous studies related to unicorn companies are focused on 'event studies' and 'case studies' such as characteristics of founders, environmental factors, business models and success/failure cases of companies already recognized as unicorns rather than a multifaceted approach. The occurrence of unicorn companies and Macroscopic analysis of related factors is lacking. Against this background, this study are considering the characteristics of unicorns examined through previous research and the current status unicorns with a high proportion of technology companies, the purpose was to analyze the impact of the country's technological competitiveness, such as 'technology human resource index', 'R&D index', and 'technology infrastructure index', on the increase in unicorn companies. For statistical analysis, data published by various international organizations, the Bank of Korea, and Statistics Korea from 2017 to 2020 and unicorn company data compiled by CB Insights were used as panel data for 44 countries to be tested by multiple regression analysis. As a result of the study, it was confirmed that the number of science majors had a positive (+) effect on the increase of unicorn companies in the case of technology human resource index, and in the case of R&D index, the total amount of R&D investment had a positive (+) effect on the increase of unicorn companies, while the number of Triad Patents Families and the number of scientific and technological papers published had a negative (-) effect on the increase of unicorn companies. Finally, in the case of technology infrastructure index, it was confirmed that the number of the world's 500th-ranked universities had a positive (+) effect on the increase of unicorn companies. This study is the first to reveal the causal relationship between national technological competitiveness and unicorn company growth based on country-specific and time-series empirical data, which were insufficiently covered in previous studies. and compared to the UN's ranking of the global industrial competitiveness index and the OECD's total R&D investment by country, Korea is considered to have technological and growth potential, while the number of unicorn companies driving growth as leaders of the innovative economy is relatively small, so the research results can be used when establishing policies to discover and foster unicorn companies in the future.