• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.173-180
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• 2014

In this research, we aim to analyze how different external knowledge search strategies of small and medium enterprises affect technological innovation. In particular, since there has been little comparison between Korean small and medium firms, we investigated the differences of the two groups by employing the "Korean Innovation Survey 2010." As a result, it was found that "external search breadth", which refers to expanding the spectrum of external knowledge search due to lack of resources and capabilities inside small firms, spurred technological innovation. On the other hand, "external search depth", which implies seeking a long-term and close relationship with the subjects that provide outside knowledge for medium firms, catalyzed technological innovation. These results emphasize that we need to separately analyze technological innovation of small and medium firms, which was, in most previous studies, viewed as one group, i.e. SMEs. In addition, the results can be, from the perspective of a firm's growth, interpreted as follows. That is, it is more effective to formulate a "diversity" pursuing strategy in the "small firm" stage where little time has passed since its establishment, whilst it is more useful to apply a "focus" strategy on sophisticated knowledge in the "medium firm" stage where a firm has grown to some extent.

• 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.469-474
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 보건기관이 효율적으로 고혈압 관리 대상자를 탐색하고, 고혈압 관련 요인에 대한 지식을 효과적으로 관리할 수 있도록 하는 고혈압 고위험군 추정 모형 및 우선 사업 대상자 탐색 모형을 제안한다. 특히, 대용량 데이터 처리 및 실시간 시스템 운영, 외부 환경 변화를 고려한 자동 학습과 같은 현실적인 제약 조건을 해결하는 모형을 개발하는 것을 주 목표로 한다. 지역 보건소에서 수집된 의료 데이터를 이용하여 최적의 파라미터 값을 설정한 고혈압 고위험군 탐색 모형을 도출하였으며, 모형의 검증을 위하여 고혈압 환자정보로 구성된 평가용 데이터를 사용하여 고혈압 자연 발병률 대비 약 2배 수준으로 향상된 고혈압 환자 예측 정확도가 얻어지는 것을 확인하였다. 시스템 운영과 유비보수 측면에서 현실적으로 중요한 문제인 대용량 데이터 처리 및 외부 환경 변화에 강인한 자동학습 이슈를 해결하기 위한 방안에 대해서도 설명하였다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.207-215
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• 2018

This study started from the point that the most important SMEs in the economic growth engine of Korea are prepared to grow through innovation. This study focuses on the fact that existing studies have focused on the open innovation of SMEs has been continued since the external knowledge search became an important concept, but mainly focused on the enterprise performance. The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating effect of innovation speed focusing on exports to Korean SMEs. The hypothesis suggests the depth and breadth of external knowledge search, which is the two methods of open innovation emphasized in the previous studies, and then shows the innovation speed on export performance as a moderating effect. Robust regression analysis was used for the analysis and the sample used for the analysis was valid 1,357 SMEs data. The hypothesis test for the moderation effect was performed by comparing the F-values between models. The proposed hypothesis was adopted and the moderation effect was verified.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.17-43
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• 2012

Alliance formation has been recognized as an important strategy for firms who seek to survive through acquisition of sustainable competitive advantages. Specifically in high-tech industries, firms may consider formation of strategic alliances in order to access valuable external knowledge. These firms tend to be situated in a dilemma that they should choose between exploration and exploitation, which are two types of strategic choices suggested by March (1991). Working out the dilemma has been extensively discussed in the area of strategy or organization learning. Recently, however, an increasing number of studies have stressed on a balance between exploration and exploitation. Regarded as 'ambidextrous organizations' (Lavie and Rosenkopf, 2006), these firms that simultaneously pursue exploration and exploitation have emerged in high-tech industries, and many studies have provided evidence of positive association between organizational ambidexterity and firm performance. In the strategic alliance research, accordingly, scholars began to pay attention to the balanced choice between exploration-and exploitation-oriented alliances. Given these backgrounds, this study examines the relationship between alliance ambidexterity and firm performance. While previous research approached alliance ambidexterity mainly from the number of alliances, our study suggests ambidexterity in terms of alliance portfolio and alliance partner. Our dataset consists of biotechnology or pharmaceutical firms in the United States, which spans time period between 1990 and 2005. We conduct panel data analysis. The results show the strong link between alliance ambidexterity and firm performance, highlighting the balance between exploration and exploitation when firms make strategic decisions.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.84-95
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• 2015

The aim of this research is to find out how to cope with and manage environmental uncertainty to be effective. Environmental conditions of complexity and change create a greater need to gather information and to respond based on that information. Despite of the governmental campaign 'creative economy, flourishing culture', governmental subsidies are becoming more unstable. The prosperity of culture means that artists can create great works and people can enjoy them without boundaries. This research investigated Boundary-spanning roles through the strategic formulation and implementation. Key factors of strategy are information and knowledge management. Boundary-spanning roles link and coordinate an organization with important elements in the external environment. It is primarily concerned with the exchange of information to detect and bring into the organization information about changes in the environment and send information into the environment that presents the organization in a favorable light. Two themes in this article are that organizations can learn and adapt to the environment and that organizations can change and control the environment.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.453-485
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• 2017

One of the oldest chestnuts in economic geography is this: Cultural and creative industries strongly gather in large cities and this geographic concentration of economic activities leads to regional development. Of course, depending on the circumstances, such a proposition still holds good. But, under the current paradigm shift to knowledge-based economy, it may be open to question. This study aims to investigate financing and knowledge accumulation in the film industry through an alternative framework for explaining their spatial distributions, "formation mechanism of economic space." From the fact that their production organizations are formed on a project basis, project-based financing structure in the investment stage and knowledge accumulation process in the production stage form both axes of it. Film industry as the most mature industry among the cultural and creative industries does not always concentrate in a certain place (industrial agglomeration) or show metropolis-oriented preference. This allows us to reconsider our long brooding theory.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.117-136
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• 2016

External knowledge search is critical to expand the firm's knowledge base, increasing the innovation performance. However, prior literature has paid less scholarly attention on the boundary condition of the search activity. In particular, the few literatures on the contingency factors are either conceptual or focus on the firm characteristics such as resources and capability. In this regard, this study argues the negative moderating effect of knowledge protection and environmental uncertainty of a firm on the positive relationship between external knowledge search and innovation performance, because these contingency factors hamper the reciprocity and the mutual trust between the firm and its external partner that provides knowledge needed in the innovation process. The empirical analysis is based on the sample drawn from Korean Innovation Survey, provided by STEPI in Korea. The sample consists of 1,637 respondent firms that experienced product innovation during the survey period. We could find statistically supporting results for the negative moderating effect on the positive relationship between external knowledge search and innovation performance. This study extends the academic debate on the boundary conditions of external knowledge search and provides managerial implications for successful product innovation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.261-270
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• 2000

개념 계층(Concept Hierarchy)은 데이터베이스 분야에서 사용되는 대표적인 배경 지식(Background Knowledge)으로써, 데이터베이스에 내재되어 있는 구조적인 정보, 데이터의 분포, 영역전문가(Domain Expert)에 의해 주어지는 외부 지식 등이 반영되어 있다. 개념 계층의 특성상 부모(parent)-자식(child) 관계가 있는 두 노드가 있을 때, 한 노드의 값으로부터 다른 노드의 값을 추정할 수 있다. 이 추정된 값을 기대치라고 하고, 한 노드의 값으로부터 추정된 기대치와 실제치가 상당히 상이한 값을 보이는 노드가 있을 때, 이를 흥미롭다(interesting)라고 할 수 있다. 그러나 아직까지 개념계층상에서의 흥미로운 부분 탐색에 대한 연구가 없었으며, 흥미로움(interestingness)의 척도(measurement)에 대한 연구로서는 신뢰도(confidence), 리프트(lift), 컨빅션(conviction)등이 있다. 그러나 이런 흥미도의 척도에 관한 연구도 연관규칙에 한정되어 이루어졌으므로 개념계층상의 데이터에 적용하기 위해서는 약간의 수정 및 새로운 정의가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 데이터의 특성에 따른 개념계층이 존재할 때, 이를 이용하여 기대치와 실제치가 상이한 흥미로운 부분을 발견하고자 하며, 이를 위하여 개념계층이 존재할 때, 이를 이용하여 기대치와 실제치가 상이한 흥미로운 부분을 발견하고자 하며, 이를 위하여 개념계층상에서의 흥미도의 척도를 제안하고 흥미로운 부분을 탐색하는 방법을 기술하고자 한다. 또한 데이터마이닝의 결과인 연관규칙을 개념계층에 적용하여 연관규칙을 통해 얻어질 수 있는 기대치를, 지지도(support), 신뢰도(confidence), 리프트(lift), 컨빅션(conviction)등의 관계를 통해 다양한 방법으로 모색해본다. 이 연구에서 제안하는 이러한 개념계층상의 흥미로운 부분의 탐색은, 전자 상거래에서의 CRM(Customer Relationship Management)나 틈새시장(niche market) 마케팅 등에 적용가능하리라 여겨진다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.77-89
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• 2000

개념 계층(Concept Hierarchy)은 데이터베이스 분야에서 사용되는 대표적인 배경 지식(Background Knowledge)으로써, 데이터베이스에 내재되어 있는 구조적인 정보, 데이터의 분포, 영역전문가 (Domain Expert)에 의해 주어지는 외부 지식 등이 반영되어 있다. 개념계층의 특성상 부모(parent)-자 식(child) 관계가 있는 두 노드가 있을 때, 한 노드의 값으로부터 다른 노드의 값을 추정할 수 있다 이 추정된 값을 기대치라고 하고, 한 노드의 값으로부터 추정된 기대치와 실제치가 상당히 상이한 값을 보이는 노드가 있을 때, 이를 흥미롭다(interesting)고 말할 수 있다. 그러나 아직까지 개념계층 상에서의 흥미로운 부분 탐색에 대한 연구가 없었으며, 흥미로움(interestingness)의 척도(measurement) 에 대한 연구로서는 신뢰도(confidence),리프트(lift),컨빅션(conviction)등이 있었다. 그러나 이런 흥미도 의 척도에 관한 연구도 연관규칙에 한정되어 이루어졌으므로 개념계층상의 데이터에 적용하기 위해 서는 약간의 수정 및 새로운 정의가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 데이터의 특성에 따른 개념계층이 존재할 때, 이를 이용하여 기대치와 실제치가 상이한 흥미로운 부분을 발견하고자 하며, 이를 위하여 개념계층상에서의 흥미도의 척도를 제안하고 흥미로운 부분을 탐색하는 방법을 기술하고자 한다. 또한 데이터마이닝의 결과인 연관규칙을 개념 계층에 적용하여 연관규칙을 통해 얻어질 수 있는 기대치를, 지지도(support), 신뢰도(confidence), 리프트(lift), 컨빅션(conviction)등의 관계를 통해 다양한 방법으로 모색해본다. 이 연구에서 제안하는 이러한 개념계층상의 흥미로운 부분의 탐색은, 전자 상거래에서 CRM(Customer Relationship Management)나 틈새시장(niche market) 마케팅 등에 적용 가능하리라 여겨진다.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.13-27
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• 2016

Companies strive to have the ability to flexibly respond to environmental changes in modern society with its rapidly changing business environment. That is, companies try to achieve the corporate performance by using a variety of strategies since companies that don't go along with changes in industry are likely to fall behind. Also, the corporate performance is a key element in national competitiveness, and government is willing to support companies to maximize their performance in various ways. This study examines whether there is a difference between corporate strategies and government policies according to the retention and the type of certification of innovation. The company's strategy configuration effort is largely divided into exploration and exploitation of external knowledge, while the government's policy is divided into direct support, indirect support, and financial support. The corporate performance is analyzed using technological performance; innovative perspective and the sales; and the actual corporate performance as proxy variables. As a result, the variable affecting the performance differs according to the retention of certification of innovation. The variable affecting the corporate performance differs according to the type of certification of innovation as well. Therefore, it was found that companies can achieve the corporate performance by considering the situation at hand and the differentiated action strategies depending on the type of certification of innovation.