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Problems with Agricultural Research and Development in Korea and Improvement Strategies Based on Foreign Examples with a Focus on the Ministry of Agriculture and the Rural Development Administration

  • Kang, Chung Han;Moon, Jung Hun;Kim, Nam Jung;Yun, Young Duk;Lee, Sung Chul
    • Agribusiness and Information Management
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.38-66
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    • 2011
  • The dissemination process of agricultural research and development (R&D) results has somewhat different characteristics from that of typical R&D results. However, these characteristics are not adequately considered on the basis of an examination of the current performance system, the resulting management plans, and strategies for the application and dissemination of the results of agricultural R&D in Korea. The performance evaluation indicator exposed the problem of the inadequate consideration of the characteristics of each of these areas, particularly the lack of unified R&D-related institutions and the inadequacy of the system to monitor outcomes. To address these shortcomings in the agricultural R&D programs in Korea, the policies pertaining to agricultural R&D performance, results management, and dissemination in the U.S. and Japan were examined. Based on these investigations, we proposed strategies to improve the agricultural R&D policies in Korea.

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Stereospecific Synthesis of the (2R,3S)- and (2R,3R)-3-Amino-2-hydroxy-4-phenylbutanoic Acids from D-Glucono-δ-lactone

  • Lee, Jin Hwan;Kim, Jin Hyo;Lee, Byong Won;Seo, Woo Duck;Yang, Min Suk;Park, Ki Hun
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.27 no.8
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    • pp.1211-1218
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    • 2006
  • The enantiomerically pure (2R,3S)- and (2R,3R)-3-amino-2-hydroxy-4-phenylbutanoic acids (AHPBA) 1 and 3 are readily obtained from D-glucono-a-lactone. Both AHPBAs are the structural key units of KMI derivatives which are the potent inhibitors of BACE 1 ($\beta$-secretase) and HIV protease. Additionally, the obtained AHPBAs 1 and 3 are converted to dipeptides of bestatin stereoisomers 2 and 4.

Efficiency of Analysis Agricultural R&D Program by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA를 이용한 농림 R&D 사업의 효율성 분석)

  • Jun-Hyun Kim;Bong-Soo Lee;Jae-Kyung Kim
    • Korea Trade Review
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.47-64
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    • 2020
  • For the past few years, the Korean government has been consistently expanding its national research & development budget to accelerate economic growth through technology innovation and the enhancement of international competitiveness in global markets. The objective of this paper is to define the concept and analyze the current status of national R&D programs by measuring R&D efficiencies. We determine R&D efficiency by reflecting inputs and outcomes of the five main agricultural R&D programs between 2010 to 2015, and by categorizing and regrouping figures that may affect R&D performance. Among 1,128 targeted projects, 832 projects with patents and thesis were selected for analysis in terms of measuring technology efficiency, pure technology efficiency, and efficiency of scale. Also, the Kruskal-Wallis test was also utilized as well. As a result of empirical analysis, figures that affected the efficiency level of national R&D programs included differences in research resources, research management levels and skills, and research field. This study can be utilized as a reference for re-establishing national agricultural R&D policies, such as enhancement of national technology competitiveness in the global market environment, improving and adapting to new agricultural conditions, market expansion, national agricultural R&D efficiency, aging rural population, agricultural management cost increase, and climate change mitigation.

Developments of Evaluation System in Agricultural R&D Program by Rural Development Agency (농촌진흥청 연구개발 평가체계의 성과지향적 발전 방향)

  • Yi, Chan-Goo
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.937-964
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    • 2011
  • The research question of this work comes from that there have been disputes for the governance and roles of the Rural Development Agency (RDA), despite of rather excellence performances of Agricultural R&D program supported by RDA. For this reason, I meta-evaluated the internal evaluation system of Agricultural R&D program in RDA, in terms of the four meta-evaluation components such as evaluation paradigm, evaluation resources, evaluation execution and evaluation utilization. The result shows that the most serious problem is rather lower level of evaluation. Object, one of the evaluation paradigms in the R&D evaluation system of the RDA. So, this work suggested the policy alternatives which may lead the R&D evaluation system of the RDA to be developed for the performance-oriented R&D management system.

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A Study on Plans to Enhance R&D Efficiency through Empirical Analysis of National R&D Strategy Focusing on Agricultural Bioresources (국가 기술개발 전략 실증분석을 통한 R&D 효율성 제고방안 연구 : 농생명자원 활용분야 중심으로)

  • Kim, Eun-Jeong;Jun, Eun-Jin
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.277-298
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    • 2012
  • Once a production focused on primary industry, Food, agriculture, forestry and fisheries industry is now trying to shed away and plans to totally transform the paradigm of agricultural R&D with a leaping goal towards being a new growth engine. Promoting the bioindustry through utilizing agricultural bioresources was selected as the primary task and also made all efforts to support by all government department and ministry. In this study, we are raised problems and planned the improvements by the empirical analysis of national R&D policy, investment strategy, the recent progress of R&D program, and the performance of R&D investment to achieve early commercialization in fields of agricultural bioresources utilizing. We also propose the R&D role sharing and cooperations of public/private sector to commercialize the agricultural bioresources from the comprehensive empirical analysis results. It will eventually strengthen the national R&D investment strategy and efficiency and then will contribute towards a successful early commercialization performance in bioindustry through utilizing agricultural bioresources.

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Effects of Geography, Weather Variability, and Climate Change on Potato Model Uncertainty

  • Fleisher, D.H.;Condori, B.;Quiroz, R.;Alva, A.;Asseng, S.;Barreda, C.;Bindi, M.;Boote, K.J.;Ferrise, R.;Franke, A.C.;Govindakrishnan, P.M.;Harahagazwe, D.;Hoogenboom, G.;Naresh Kumar, S.;Merante, P.;Nendel, C.;Olesen, J.E.;Parker, P.S.;Raes, D.;Raymundo, R.;Ruane, A.C.;Stockle, C.;Supit, I.;Vanuytrecht, E.;Wolf, J.;Woli, P.
    • Proceedings of The Korean Society of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Conference
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    • 2016.09a
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    • pp.41-43
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    • 2016
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Distribution Map of Microbial Diversity in Agricultural land (농경지 토양미생물 분포도)

  • Suh, Jang-Sun;Noh, Hyung-Jun;Kwon, Jang-Sik;Weon, Hang-Yeon;Hong, Suk-Young
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.43 no.6
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    • pp.995-1001
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    • 2010
  • Biogeography is the study of the distribution of biodiversity over space and time. We report the development of a prototype database that maps of microbial diversity in the context of the geochemical and geological environment and geographic location. It aims to reveal where organisms live, and at what abundance in nation wide. Microbial data collected from agricultural land during 1999 to 2007 were categorized for mapping with ArcGIS program. Distribution maps of bacteria, fungi, Bacillus and gram negative bacteria of agricultural land showed different patterns from each other. Microbial biomass content investigated in year of 2007 was higher than in 1999.

Directions for Improving Efficiency of National Agricultural R&D Programs Based on Their Performance Analyses (성과분석에 근거한 농업부문 연구개발사업의 개선방안)

  • Jung, Hoi-Jong;Ko, Jung-Ho
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.759-775
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    • 2006
  • Agricultural R&D Programs of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forest and the Rural Development Administration are important for improving agricultural technology in Korea. However, the roles of these two agencies have been overlapped as the research fields and funds are extended through educational-industrial-governmental-institutional cooperation programs. In this study, we analyzed the performances of two agencies. As a result, these programs of these agencies do not show much difference in the research area. A new direction for improving efficiency and solving problems of programs, with a variety of information about the role of two agencies and activation of agricultural R&D programs, will be provided by this performance analyses.

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Microcomputer FEM Analysis of Soil Cutting Process

  • Shen, J.;Kushwaha, R.L.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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    • 1993.10a
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    • pp.1063-1072
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    • 1993
  • Current finite element analysis programs for soil cutting process with tillage tools require mainframe computers. Several special treatments in developing a microcomputer FEM program were introduced to increase the capacity for solving large problems and reducing the total time cost. The program was evaluated by solving one 3-D example on a 489 microcomputer. The results showed a close agreement with the laboratory soil bin test.

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