• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.1192-1211
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• 2017

Today, innovation is driven by the challenge of existing paradigms and by cooperating with many other fields as well as their own, and thus the importance of open innovation is emphasized. This study analyzed the effect of open innovation on innovation activities and examined the role of organizational innovation in various innovation activities. For the analysis, Korean Innovation Survey (KIS) data from Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI) in 2016 was used. A total of 1,453 manufacturing firms were selected as a sample and logistic regression was performed. As a result, R&D cooperation has a positive effect on product innovation as the most representative means to acquire new knowledge and technology, while R&D cooperation has no relation with process innovation. In the case of organizational innovation, it strengthens positive effects of R&D cooperation on both product innovation and process innovation. Organizational change can be explained to play a positive role in new innovation activities, and then firms will need to consider organizational innovation in relation to R&D cooperation. This study is meaningful in that it analyzes the causal relationship and role in relation to various types of innovation, and will contribute to the firms to smoothly perform innovation activities in the future.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.63-76
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• 2012

The possibility of successful commercialization of technologically innovative products depends on the degree to which consumers select and utilize the product. Therefore, the research that endeavors to find the usage behavior and the acceptance intention of users of technologically innovative products is a very important quest. This study empirically analyzes the factors that influence commercialization of a technologically innovative product: cloud computing. Existing studies examined acceptance intentions by expanding the TAM model and excluded attitude and usage behavior. This study determined attitude, usage behavior and personal characteristics of consumers to be important influencing factors. The results of the empirical analysis are as follows: First, the self-efficacy of personal characteristics had a significant effect on ease of use and acceptance intention and perceived costs had a significant influence on the factors of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Second, research on the systematic characteristics of cloud computing confirmed that security was an important factor affecting acceptance intention while innovativeness was critical to ease of use. Third, of the usage characteristics among users of technologically innovative products, perceived usefulness had an effect on the acceptance and usage behavior of cloud computing, and perceived ease of use had an important influence on perceived usefulness. Currently, when cloud computing services have not yet become widespread to the public, this study proposed meaningful results for policy direction and commercialization strategies by revealing variables that influence acceptance and usage behavior.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.174-186
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• 2007

최근의 기업 환경은 글로벌화의 진전과 산업문명의 발달, 정보 습득이 용이 등으로 급속도로 소비자 중심의 시장으로 전환되었으며 이로 인해 기업 간의 경쟁은 급격히 가속되고 있는 상황이다. 이러한 상황 아래 고객에게 제공하는 가치가 유사한 기업들은 자사의 제품과 서비스를 차별화하여 기업의 경쟁력을 강화하기 위해 다양한 방법을 시도하고 있다. 이 다양한 방법들 중 대표적인 한 가지가 자사의 브랜드를 강력하게 만들어 관리하는 것이다. 현대의 소비자들은 단지 제품이나 서비스의 품질, 또는 가격들 중 하나로 제품을 선택하는 것이 아니라 종합적 경험으로 자신에게 각인되어 있는 브랜드의 선택을 통하여 제품이나 서비스를 구매하게 된다. 또 하나의 대표적인 방법이 경영혁신 활동이다. 기업은 기존의 업무 방법을 재현해서만은 지속적인 경쟁력을 유지할 수 없다. 변화하는 기업 환경에 맞춰 기업의 가장 중요한 부분을 본질적으로 변화 시켜야만 기업의 경쟁력을 지속적으로 유지, 향상 시킬 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 기존에 연구된 문헌자료를 토대로 이론적 배경을 고찰하고 기업들의 경영혁신 추진 실태 조사와 K기관의 NBCI모델 통하여 산출된 브랜드 경쟁력 지수간의 상관관계를 분석함으로써 경영혁신 활동이 기업의 브랜드 자산 가치에 어떤 영향을 미치고 있는지 살펴보고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.76-91
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• 2019

There have been many studies to examine the patterns in innovations reflecting industry-specific characteristics from an evolutionary economics perspective. The purpose of this study is to identify industry-specific differences in product innovation patterns and determinants of innovation performance. For this, Korean manufacturing is classified into high-tech industries and low-tech industries according to technology intensity. It is also pointed out that existing research does not reflect the decision-making process of firms' R&D implementations. In order to solve this problem, this study presents a Heckman sample selection model and a double-hurdle model as alternatives, and analyzes data from 1,637 firms in the 2014 Survey on Technology of SMEs. As a result, it was confirmed that the determinants and patterns of manufacturing in small and medium-size enterprise (SME) product innovation are significantly different between high-tech and low-tech industries. Also, through an extended empirical model, we found that there exist a sample selection bias and a hurdle-like threshold in the decision-making process. In this study, the industry-specific features and patterns of product innovation are examined from a multi-sided perspective, and it is meaningful that the decision-making process for manufacturing SMEs' R&D performance can be better understood.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.28-49
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• 2019

This paper explores the characteristics of innovation activities in high growth firms that contribute to national and regional economic growth and job creation. The analysis is based on the 2016 KIS data to analyze the difference in innovation activities between high growth firms and general firms. The main results are as follows: First, high growth firms have a higher proportion of R&D personnel than general firms. Second, high growth firms are actively introducing product innovation, process innovation, and organizational innovation as compared to general firms. In the innovation activities related to product innovation and process innovation, there is no statistically significant difference between high growth companies and general companies except for external R&D. Third, High growth firms are more likely to cooperate with other technology partners than general firms. But, there is no statistically significant difference between high growth firms and general firms in the external knowledge search and the diversity of cooperating partners. Fourth, in terms of protecting innovation, high growth firms are more likely to use all kinds of innovation protection method, such as 'utilizing intellectual property rights', 'maintaining confidentiality', 'adopting complex design methods', 'market preemption ahead of competitors', and the most important means is the intellectual property rights. Fifth, government innovation policies that high growth firms chose as important are 'innovation subsidies and loans', 'acquirement, utilization and protection of intellectual property rights' and 'human resource support'.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.237-256
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• 2018

This study focused on the concept of organizational learning as a prior variable of innovation activities, and reviewed the relationship between organizational learning, innovation and management performance. According to prior studies, the ability to perform these activities may be enhanced through organizational learning, as the success of the innovation requires activities to acquire and share knowledge within the organization. In other words, organizational learning is playing a role as a precursor to innovation. Therefore, in this study, the effects of organizational learning on management performance are to be verified through the mediation effect of product and innovation activities. Organizational learning provides various definitions and components for each scholar, but this study consisted of a series of knowledge acquisition, information distribution, information analysis and process memory using the framework of the learning ability analysis by Levitt and March(1988) and Huber(1991), Innovation was also divided into product innovation and process innovation, and measured with sub-variables such as presentation of new products and improvement activities to increase productivity. Management performance was measured as financial and non-financial performance. To verify the effects of the mediation, we used a three-step regression analysis procedure of Baron and Kenny(1986)'s and a sobel-test. Empirical studies show that organizational learning has a positive effect on management performance and that knowledge acquisition and information distribution, which are the early stages of learning activities in the lower variables, affect performance through product innovation. Based on the results of the above empirical study, the implications, limitations of the study and future research directions were presented.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.367-380
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• 2020

360 product photography is one of the realistic media technologies that can observe subjects from various angles as one of the real-world VR production methods. This study examined the effect of 360 product photography on the intention to Continuous Use through the technology acceptance model. The results of the online survey showed that informative, which is the characteristic of 360 product photography, affects both ease of use and perceived usefulness, while reliability and entertainingness affect only perceived usefulness. Internal innovation had an impact on perceived ease, but not on perceived usability. Ease of use, both mediators, had a positive effect on sustained use intention. These findings can be used as a reference for various studies in the field of 360 product photography which is still insufficient. In addition, it can provide strategic implications for the production direction of 360 product photos.

• IE interfaces
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.91-99
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• 1994

최근 우리나라 제조업체는 국제화, 개방화, 소비자 욕구의 다양화, 제품 라이프 사이클 단축 등에 직면하여 제품 개발기간 단축, 품질향상, 제조원가 절감을 위한 혁신적 개념의 관리기법이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 국내 외 많은 기업들이 제품 개발 프로세스를 혁신하기 위해 도입 중인 동시공학에 대한 내용을 연구 개발 부분의 사례를 들어 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.205-244
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• 2015

In response to the recent rapid technological and market changes, the importance of the design of ambidextrous organization has been increasingly emphasized as one of the dynamic capabilities. Firms that show a high performance in the rapid technological and market changes appear to design and implement ambidextrous organization successfully. They have achieved both exploitative competence for continuous innovation with product development and exploratory competence for discontinuous innovation with new market and new technologies. We have examined why and how to design and operate ambidextrous organizations and the effects of ambidextrous organizational characteristics on the performance from structural, contextual and leadership perspectives. We conducted case studies on 3 Korean firms that showed different characteristics of industrial product, company size, etc. Longitudinal case studies exhibit different processes of design and operating ambidextrous organization according to innovative strategy and industrial characteristics.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.117-131
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• 2011

This study aims to examine the impact of Self-leadership(behavior- focused strategies, natural reward and constructive thought pattern to Technology Innovation. Hypotheses were tested by surveying 306 employees at Gumi Industrial Complex. The findings are as follows : First, two factors of Self-leadership had a significant positive effect on the product innovation except constructive thought pattern strategies. Second, two factors of Self-leadership had a significant positive effect on the process innovation except constructive thought pattern strategies.