• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.105-114
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• 2016

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.146-173
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• 2014

Extant studies have explained that firm's innovations including technological product and process innovations contribute to its competitive advantage and growth, thereby supporting competitiveness and growth of industry. These studies, however, have focused mainly on the role and effect of technological change that is primarily measured by the patent numbers and R&D intensity. Aside from these traditional streams, there has been growing interest on the impact by various dimensions of innovation including non-technological innovations. Apart from the discussions on the dimensions and scope of innovation, stages or processes of innovation also have been studied. Extant studies on innovation process model, however, has limited its interests in the structure of the transformation of knowledge. This study have established a comprehensive model embracing operational and financial performance to investigate the causal paths between innovation and firm performance. Using multi-level generalized linear model with path analysis, this study have found results as follows: First, the processes from innovative activities to innovation output and outcomes including operational and financial performance at firm level were verified. Secondly, the influence of innovation decreases gradually as the distance away from the direct outputs of the innovation increase in the direction of financial outcomes. Third, the effect of innovation on the sales growth rate is higher for small businesses than for medium-sized businesses. The effect of innovation on the profit rate, however, is significant only for medium-sized businesses. For large businesses, innovation has no positive significant impact on any financial performance at all. Fourth, Fourth, the appropriability of innovation has positive impacts on innovative performance, patent applications, and operational performance.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.105-148
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• 2023

This paper provides a new method of measuring the degree of technological progress which contributes to real economic growth based on Schumpeter's Trilogy. Using Microdata of Statistics Korea, the results of measuring and comparing the actual growth contribution of technological progress during the period 2003-2018 by the total factor productivity growth rate(growth accounting method), the R&D investment contribution rate, and the Schumpeterian innovation growth rate, respectively are as follows. First, the measurement of the real growth contribution of technological progress by the growth rate of total factor productivity and the growth rate of Schumpeterian innovation shows contradictory results. Second, when the growth rate of production is in a decreasing trend, the difference between the growth rate of production and the growth rate of total factor productivity increases compared to when it is in an increasing trend. Conversely, when there is an increasing trend, the difference between the growth rate of production and the growth rate of total factor productivity becomes smaller compared to when it is in a decreasing trend.. Third, the technological opportunity that affects the innovation growth rate, i.e., the contribution of R&D incentives to innovative growth is only 3.3%. The reason why this result is different from the existing perception of the contribution of technological progress to growth is that different entities are being measured while measuring the same term of technological progress. Therefore, the growth rate of total factor productivity should be used to measure macroeconomic efficiency, R&D investment should be used to measure the effectiveness of new technology supply, and the Schumpeterian innovation rate should be used to measure the economic impact of technological progress. The policy implications of the research results of this thesis are as follows: ① Transition from a policy of one-sided technology supply to a policy of convergence of technology supply and new technology demand support, ② Mission-oriented R&D policy and R&D policy that links national R&D with private R&D, ③ Reclassification of capital goods reflecting the degree of new knowledge.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.91-120
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• 2010

This paper examines the effect of bargaining power over intermediate goods prices on innovation and economic growth using a Schumpeterian growth model. The notion of "intermediate goods prices" broadly indicates the reward to innovators including innovative SMEs as well as intermediate goods producers that are vertically integrated to big businesses. From this viewpoint, this paper sets up a Schumpeterian growth model that incorporates the market power between final goods producers and intermediate goods producers. The results show that the reduction of intermediate goods prices slows down long-run growth rates as it erodes the reward to innovations. Lower intermediate goods prices decrease marginal productivity of capital and real interest rates. However, the harmful effect of lower profits on innovations outweighs the beneficial effect of lower interest rates. Simulations using Korea's data for various cases show that in all cases the policies that raise the share of intermediate goods producers are as powerful as the R&D subsidy policies in raising growth rates. Therefore, fair trade policies that enable intermediate goods producers-especially SMEs to obtain more fruits of innovations will be helpful for long-run economic growth.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.247-260
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• 2013

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.393-393
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• 2013

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.248-262
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• 2010

국가의 산업 발전이 성장에 한계에 다다르고 그 성장 수준이 고도화 된 국가일수록, 서비스 산업은 그 중요성이 부각되고 있다. 우리나라 역시 서비스 산업의 국내 GDP의 60%이상을 점유하는 만큼 고도의 서비스 산업국가로 분류될 수 있겠으나, 서비스 산업의 경쟁력이 주요 선진국들과 차이가 나는 것이 사실이며, 부가가치가 높은 핵심 지식서비스 산업 분야에서의 격차는 더 크다. 이에 국내 서비스 산업의 경쟁력 강화가 제시되고 있으며, 그에 일환으로 서비스 사이언스(Service Science)에 대한 논의가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 미래성장동력인 서비스 산업의 급부상과 관련하여 서비스 분야에서도 기존의 제조업과 같은 생산성과 효율성을 증가시키기 위해서 더욱 과학적이고, 체계적인 방법론을 연구해야하는 필요성이 제기되고 있다. 이러한 서비스 혁신의 개념은 서비스의 생산성, 품질, 평가, 지속 가능성, 혁신 등에 대하여 연구하는 서비스 사이언스(Service Science)에 대한 논의로 귀결되고 있다. 본 논문은 서비스 혁신사례로써 기술을 도입하여 기업의 성과를 크게 끌어올린 월마트 사례와 최첨단 기술이 융합 접목된 복합 산업적 공간으로 다양한 경제적 활동이 수반되는 인천국제공항공사를 중심으로 서비스 산업에서의 과학기술의 역할에 대해서 살펴보고, 그에 관련된 개념과 시사점을 제기하고자 한다.

• The tire
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• s.246
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• pp.10-19
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• 2011

일본 대지진으로 인해 세계 경제의 불확실성이 높아가고 있는 가운데 최근 자동차 부품수출이 급증하면서 자동차 부품 산업이 새로운 성장동력 산업으로 부상하고 있다. 우리나라의 타이어 수출은 타이어업체의 해외 생산 확대에도 불구하고 증가하고 있으나, 국내 산업 분류상 타이어가 자동차부품으로 분류되지 않음으로써 관심을 끌지 못하고 있다. 국내 타이어산업은 지속적인 연구개발 투자에 힘입어 혁신역량을 강화하면서 글로벌산업으로 성장하였으며, 세계 시장 점유율을 확대하고 있다. 본고에서는 국내 자동차 부품산업의 수출 현황과 환경 변화 및 국내외 자동차 부품업체의 혁신 전략에 대해 살펴 본 후 불확실성시대의 국내 타이어산업의 혁신 역량 강화 전략을 제시해 보기로 한다.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.49-57
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• 2015

This research is to analyze the mediating effect of product innovation between work-life balance (work-family balance, work-leisure balance and work-development balance) and corporate performance in venture SMEs. We test four hypothesis. First, we test the hypothesis that work-life balance has a positive effect on product innovation. Second, we test the hypothesis that product innovation has a positive effect on corporate performance. Third, we test the hypothesis that work-life balance has a positive effect on corporate performance. Fourth, we test a positive mediating role of product innovation between work-life balance and corporate performance. For this research, we administered the questionnaire surveys, and got the 162 effective data of korean venture SMEs. We use CFA and SEM analysis of research model by AMOS 18.0. As a result, we can find the four meaningful results. First, work-life balance, especially only work-development balance, has a positive effect on product innovation. Second, product innovation has a positive effect on corporate performance. Third, the relationships between work-life balance (work-family balance, work-leisure balance and work-development balance) and corporate performance are no significant after the mediating variable (product innovation) is added. Fourth, product innovation has a positive mediating effect between work-life balance, especially only work-development balance, and corporate performance. Although this research has some limitations of generalization because of the limited size of samples, we has meaningful information related to the venture companies in the academic and business field. Additionally, the Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause(MIMIC) model is recommended in the future research.

• Journal of Venture Innovation
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.17-30
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• 2021

Environmental deterministic perspectives and resource-based perspectives have different perceptions on the factors that determine corporate performance. While the environmental deterministic viewpoint sees the external environment as having a significant impact on corporate performance. On the other hand, the resource-compliant viewpoint believes that it is important to obtain the necessary resources through appropriate decision-making in order to overcome the uncertainty of the environment. Although the external environmental impact on corporate performance is important, the study is in the position that efforts within the company to cope with environmental uncertainty are necessary. This study identified the role that factors within the company play in the process of affecting the external environment of the company's performance. This study looked at whether the CEO's innovation direction plays an mediating role in the market environment favorability affecting sales growth rate. The data was collected using a survey method. We collected data from 138 small and medium-sized manufacturing companies in Gyeongin area. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS 22 packages. According to the analysis, market environment favorability positively affects sales growth rate, and the CEO's innovation direction plays a mediating role between market environment favorability and sales growth rate. The results of this study showed that depending on the market environment, the CEO's interest and willingness to innovate, present a vision for innovation, and institutionalize innovation activities increase management performance through innovation.