• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.59-87
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• 2014

This paper focuses on effect of technological collaboration and securement of appropriability on product innovation performance. Additionally, moderating effect of appropriability on technological collaboration is investigated by using Korean Innovation Survey 2010 conducted by the Science and Technology Policy Institute in Korea. Result shows that technological collaboration with customer and affiliate affects product innovation performance positively. Appropriability, in addition, not only gives positive effect on product innovation performance by itself, but also it augments the positive effect of technological collaboration on product innovation performance. The results imply that technological collaboration and appropriability are the key determinant for the increase of the product innovation performance; therefore, firms need higher level of technological collaboration invigoration and possession of appropriability. at last, firms require profound insight concerning strategic use of technology protection methods to secure appropriability.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.85-105
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• 2018

This study analyzes the economic impacts of Korean R&D expenditure on the industrial structure by technological levels using 2010~2014 Input-Output table data. The industrial structure is reclassified into 4 manufacturing industries by OECD's Technology Intensity Definition. Then, we analyzes the production-inducing and value added-inducing of those industries. As the results of the analysis, it is found that the production-inducing effect by the R&D expenditure has been higher in the middle-high and middle-low technology manufacturing and that the value added-inducing effect has been higher in the middle-high technology manufacturing. On the other hand, the production and value added-inducing effects has been lower in the high-tech manufacturing which is highest in the R&D expenditure. The above results indicate that industrial structure has not been linked with the quality ladder that expresses the enhancement of tech level through R&D expenditure. Based on these results, the policy recommendation implies that R&D expenditure should be concentrated to improve the production- and value-added effects of the high technology manufacturing in order to advance the industrial structure. However, this study has the limitation that the analyses on the dynamic-inducing effects are not carried out due to the lack of fixed capital formation data.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1-13
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• 2014

This study examines the relationship between firms' external search strategy and their innovation performance. In addition to revisiting the relationship between open search strategy and product innovation, we further extend the impact of use of external knowledge sources to process and organizational innovation. Using the 2010 Korean Innovation Survey (KIS) of manufacturing firms, we report that on average, venture firms search more widely (external search breadth) and deeply (external search depth) across a variety of external search channels than non-venture firms. We then further explore the impact of venture and non-venture firms' use of external search strategies on innovation performance. We find that both searching widely and deeply increase the likelihood of non-venture firm's successes in product, process and organizational innovation. Similar results can be found for the venture firm's success in organizational innovation. However, only searching deeply increases the likelihood of venture firms' success in product and process innovation.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.14-22
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• 2020

In this study, in addition to non-technical innovation activities such as organizational innovation and marketing innovation, the purpose of this study was to verify through empirical analysis what mechanism appropriation affects the business performance of a company. Data were collected from the 2018 Korean Business Innovation Survey: Manufacturing Sector and used as analysis data. As a result of the analysis, it was verified through empirical analysis that non-technical innovation improves management performance, appropriability is affected by non-technical innovation, and acts as a mediating factor between management performance. Through this empirical analysis, it was derived that considering appropriation along with non-technical innovation on the recently studied non-technical innovation can be a meaningful study, and since securing such appropriation is an important factor in determining the business performance of a company. Companies need insight into the strategic use of technology protection measures to secure appropriation. As a limitation, it was limited to studies that verify that it has a mediating effect of non-technical innovation and appropriation, and it is considered that it is possible to develop a study that affects the management performance of a company through more various verification methods for future studies.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.159-186
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• 2009

The innovation activity is an important factor for sustained growth in nations and firms. Particularly, the problem of appropriation of results of the innovative activity is very important for innovators since it enables them to enjoy the profits generated by their innovations. This study is intended to empirically analyse relative preference of patent and secrecy that is affected by characteristics of innovators and results of innovation using data from '2005: The Korean Innovation Survey' and Ordered Logit method. As a result of this study, the preference for a specific mechanism is clearly revealed in product innovation rather than process innovation. Also, in most research, questions results of analysis are equal to the previous studies and the nature of appropriation methods. However, the result of a research question based on sources of information is very different from previous researches. This study utilized more recent data than previous studies. This result reflects that existing patterns have been changed during recent period.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.545-571
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• 2016

The development of ICT brings a big change in manufacturing industries, and new information technology such as IoT, AR, and big data was applied on manufacturing process. As a result, the concept of smart factory has been introduced as a new manufacturing paradigm. In fact advanced countries like USA, Germany, and Japan have actively introduced smart factory in their manufacturing industries such as electronic, automobile, machinery, to improve production efficiency and quality. The manufacturing environment has been changed into flexible system, so that smart factory will be leading future manufacturing industries. Thes changes have more severe influence on Korean manufacturing industries. Mny industrial companies, have a strong interest in smart factory and they, particularly big enterprises, have been adopting smart factory to increase their manufacturing efficiencies. However, Korean small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have many financial and technological difficulties so that the diffusion of smart factory in Korean SMEs has not been satisfiable up to present. However, smart factory is very important for enhancing their competitiveness in global market. Therefore, this study aims at identifying the standardization strategy of smart factory in so-called Korean 'roots industry' by presuming that the standardization will activate the diffusion of smart factory among Korean SMEs. For this purpose, first, this study examines the competitiveness of SMEs, especially in 'roots industry' and identifies the necessity of diffusion of smart factory among those SMEs. Second, based on the active review on the existing literature, this study identifies four factor groups that would influence the adoption or diffusion of standardized smart factory. They are technological, organizational, industrial and policy factors. Third, using those four factors, this study made two comprehensive case analyses on the adoption and diffusion of smart factory. These two companies belong to molding sector which is one of the important six sectors in 'root industry'. Finally, based on the theoretical and empirical analyse, this study suggests four strategies for activating the standardization of smart factory; international standardization, government-leading standardization, firm-leading standardization, and non-standardization.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.41 no.1 s.112
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• pp.1-21
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• 2006

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to analyze production and innovation networks of manufacturers in the rural, long-live areas of Gangwon Jeju and to suggest an ideal regional development model of rural areas in the knowledge-based information age. For this purpose, we compared the areas of Gangwon Jeju with the long-live belt areas in the rural pan of the Honan region and Gwangju Jeonju, the urban part of Honam. The findings from the study are summarized as follows. Firstly, the stronger the local networks in terms of supply of the necessary input materials and labor, the more successful the manufacturing industry is in the given area. Secondly, the more diverse and lasting the networks (in terms of the location of manufacturers, local area and national area) and cooperation agents(businesses, research institutions, the local government, the central government) they have, the more prosperous the manufacturing industry is. These results indicate that the successful development model for rural areas requires that we take the approach of fostering potential innovation capabilities of total areas by fully utilizing their innate resources so as to create an internal cooperative network and further build extensive networks encompassing external entities to create a virtual innovation cluster.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.81-93
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• 2016

Internet of Things (IoT) has been established in various industries and IoT technology is highlighted as a new value creation technology. Especially, Korean government has launched Manufacturing Innovation 3.0 Strategy for developing Smart Factory concept to improve national and corporate's competitiveness. This study tries to present new industry classification scheme considering 10 national key manufacturing industries. Based on the new scheme, 10 national main forces industries are categorized into 6 segments. We have conducted SWOT analysis to comprehend Korean IoT environment. Based on the analysis, we have positioned 6 segments at the strategic decision-making grid to analyze industries' IoT practical usage.

• Proceedings of the Technology Innovation Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.57-71
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• 2003

기술기반사회로의 진화가 빠르게 진행되면서 경제성장에 있어 기술혁신의 중요성이 깊이 인식되어왔다. 그러나 혁신과 관련한 의사결정이 시장에만 맡겨질 경우 종종 시장실패가 일어나기 때문에 다양한 기술 혁신지원정책을 통해 공공이 개입하고 있는 실정이다. 공공의 기술혁신 지원정책이 수립, 시행되는데 있어 가장 중요한 근거는 경제적, 기술적 파급효과이며, 이에 근거할 때 공공차원의 선택과 집중이라는 문제도 합리성을 갖게 된다. 파급효과를 분석하기 위해서는 산업간 기술연관관계분석이 필수적으로 선행되어야 하며, 이와 관련하여 다수의 국내외 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 HS코드를 이용하여 산업별로 주 생산물 관련 키워드를 직접 생성하고, 특허 및 실용신안 등 지적재산권에 활용된 키워드 및 분류정보와 일치시킴으로서 지적재산권의 산업간 공유여부를 파악하는 메카니즘을 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 메카니즘을 제조업 세세분류(five-digit level)에 적용함으로서 세세분류산업간 연관관계를 제시하였다. 분석의 결과로서 부품소재산업을 중심으로 살펴볼 때 부품소재산업군과 여타산업군이 기술적으로 분절되어 있음을 확인하였다. 이 결과는 부품소재산업에서의 혁신은 부품소재산업군내에서 (비체화) 기술적 파급효과(disembodied technological spillover)를, 그리고 부품소재산업에서부터 여타 산업으로 (체화) 경제적 파급효과(embodied economic spillover)를 유발한다는 점을 시사하고 있다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.598-615
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• 2017

This paper compares the sources of the changes in the production of manufacturing industry between Korea and Japan during year 2000 ~year 2011 by I-O SDA. The results show that the first source of the increase in the production of Manufacturing industry in Korea is export, while in Japan the technological change. However, the contribution of technological change is relatively small in Korea and moreover decreasing. Meanwhile, the domestic final demand is the second source of the increase in the production of Korean manufacturing industry, but it was the first source of the decrease in the production of Japanese counterpart. On the other hand, the decrease in import substitution for both the intermediate and domestic final goods is significantly contributed to the decrease in the production of both Korean and Japanese manufacturing industry. Conclusively, these results confirm that the growth of Korean manufacturing industry has heavily depended on export. Then, considering the current global economic environment that is rapidly becoming more uncertain as well as volatile, the results imply that the heavy export dependence may become a key hurdle for the solid sustained growth of Korean manufacturing industry, so that policy ensuring more evenly balanced growth contribution from all growth sources is necessary. In particular, policy to promote technological change and import substitution is required with greater weight.