• ETRI Journal
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.602-612
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• 2012

It is becoming increasingly difficult to identify promising technologies due to the influx of new technologies and the high level of complexity involved in many of these technologies. Identifying promising information and communications technology (ICT)-based converging technologies holds the key to finding new sources of economic growth and forward momentum. The goal of this study is to identify cutting-edge ICT-based converging technologies by examining the latest trends in the US patent market. Analyzing the US patent market, the most competitive of such markets in the world, can yield certain clues about which of the ICT-based converging technologies may be the next revolutionary technologies. For a classification of these technologies, this study follows the International Patent Classification system. As for ICT, there are 58 related fields at the subclass level and 831 fields at the main-group level. For emerging and converging technologies, there are 75 at the main-group level. From these technologies, a final selection for cutting-edge ICT-based converging technologies is made using a composite index reflecting the converging coefficient, emerging coefficient, and technology impact index.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.1134-1143
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• 2013

The rising pace of technological change in information and communications technology (ICT) has provoked technological convergence by providing a new mode of diversification. This paper investigates the nature of ICT-based converging technologies by examining comparative empirical evidence on converging versus nonconverging technologies in relation to the following issues: patent application trends, concentration across technologies, the concentration of patenting activity across firms, R&D efforts, and a technology impact index. For this study, a new operational definition of ICT-based converging technology is derived, and a massive quantity of patents, up to around 600,000, is analyzed. This study follows the International Patent Classification as well as the modified European Commission's industry classification system for the classification of technologies and industries, respectively.

• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.299-322
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• 2012

생명공학(BT) 분야는 고부가가치의 새로운 시장기회를 제공할 수 있는 잠재력이 있으며, 타분야와 융합 연구개발이 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 본 연구는 2000년부터 2010년동안 한국특허청(KIPO)에 등록된 특허를 기준으로 우리나라 BT 융합기술의 실태를 실증분석 하고자 한다. 특히 국제특허분류(IPC) 체계에 따라 융합기술을 동종융합과 이종융합 기술로 구분하였으며, 그 시장의 특성을 파악을 위하여 기술 및 기업집중도, 시장확보력지수(PFS) 비교 실증분석을 한다. 또한 FOS 기술-분류표를 활용하여 BT기술과 이종융합이 일어나고 있는 산업군을 파악하여 신시장 창출현황을 살펴보고 이에 대한 시사점을 찾고자 한다. 그간 특허분석으로 많은 연구가 수행되었으나 우리나라 BT 융합기술 시장에 초점이 맞추어 진 연구는 거의 드문 실정으로 이러한 분석은 매우 의미가 있는 연구라고 사료된다. 본 연구에서는 우리나라 융합기술 시장이 급속도로 확장되고 있으며, 소수 기업에 의하여 독과점화되고 있다는 사실을 확인하고, 종합적으로 BINET 융합 분야의 핵심 키워드 및 기술을 파악한다. 이러한 BT 융합의 추세는 향후 BT 산업화가 가속화되면서 더욱 강화될 것으로 전망되며, 본 연구를 통하여 확인된 향후 BT 기반 융합기술 정책수립에 많은 시사점을 제공할 수 있을 것이다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.36-40
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• 2019

Energy harvesting is an advantageous technology for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that dispenses with the need for periodic replacement of batteries. WSNs are composed of numerous sensors for the collection of data and communication; hence, they are important in the Internet of Things (IoT). However, due to low power generation and energy conversion efficiency, harvesting technologies have so far been utilized in limited applications. In this study, a piezoelectric energy harvester was modeled in a vibration environment. This harvester has an oval-shaped configuration as compared to the conventional cantilever-type piezoelectric energy harvester. An analytical model based on an equivalent circuit was developed to appraise the advantages of the oval-shaped piezoelectric energy harvester in which several structural parameters were optimized for higher output performance in given vibration environments. As a result, an oval-shaped energy harvester with an average output power of 2.58 mW at 0.5 g and 60 Hz vibration conditions was developed. These technical approaches provided an opportunity to appreciate the significance of autonomous sensor networks.

• World Technopolis Review
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.16-26
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• 2012

Many scientists today say that converged technologies, not specifically dedicated technologies, will be in the vanguard in the $21^{st}$ century. Technological Convergence is the merging of different areas of technology to perform similar tasks. Since we are living in the era of Technological Convergence, it is time for us to think about how to cope with the daily demands we are facing in science parks. Technological Convergence is a mega trend in commercial areas today but, so far, no science parks seem to have tried to reshape their management policies or programs in order to utilize this trend. For the development of science parks we suggest some tasks such as: identify potentials for Technological Convergence, establish a convergent ecosystem by building connections across stove-piped systems, effect a technological convergence platform, and conduct further research for strengthening plans for converging technologies.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.27-50
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• 2016

Korean manufacturing industry have recently faced the catch-up of China in the mass commodity product, such as automotive, display, and smart phone in terms of market as well as technology. Accordingly, discussion on the importance of achieving catch-up in complex product systems (CoPS) has been increasing as a new innovation engine for the industry. In order to achieve successful catch-up of CoPS, we explored emerging technologies of CoPS, which are featured by the characteristics of radical novelty, relatively fast growth and self-sustaining, through the study of emerging technologies of gas turbine for power generation. We found that emerging technologies of the gas turbine are technologies for combustion nozzle and composition of electrical machine for increasing power efficiency, washing technology for particulate matter, cast and material processing technology for enhancing durability from fatigue, cooling technologies from extremely high temperature, interconnection operation technology between renewable energy and the gas turbine for flexibility in power generation, and big data technology for remote monitoring and diagnosis of the gas turbine. We also found that those emerging technologies resulted in technological progress of the gas turbine by converging with other conventional technologies in the gas turbine. It indicates that emerging technologies in CoPS can be appeared on various technological knowledge fields and have complementary relationship with conventional technologies for technology progress of CoPS. It also implies that latecomers need to pursue integrated learning that includes emerging technologies as well as conventional technologies rather than independent learning related to emerging technologies for successful catch-up of CoPS. Our findings provide an important initial theoretical ground for investigating the emerging technologies and their characteristics in CoPS as well as recognizing knowledge management strategy for successful catch-up of latecomers. Our findings also contribute to the policy development of the CoPS from the perspective of innovation strategy and knowledge management.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.201-208
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• 2019

Since the introduction of the open innovation at the beginning of the 2000s, various studies have been carried out on the convergence of technologies, such as the development of new technologies and the development of the business domain. while exploring the technologies necessary for the convergence of appropriate technologies in this research, we propose a discovery process of challengeable research areas by means of the integration of heterogeneous fields which are based on the strategic formulation of ICT and chemical safety industry. In this paper, we consequently propose the 103 detailed convergent technologies based on ICT, especially including artificial intelligent technology and smart big-data platform architecture, were derived from the research areas of the chemical safety field, We expect that research related to the safety field will be frustrated in the future.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 3th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.1426-1432
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• 2009

Green growth is summarized as the national growth strategies to enhance the quality of life as a whole by converting not only the lifestyle but the economic and industrial structures into the low carbon and eco-friendly environments with the green growth industries with low carbon as the momentum for new growth, based on green technologies including renewable energy technologies, energy and resource efficient technologies, converging technologies related to technologies to reduce the environmental pollution. Roles of the construction industry along with other industries are very important in securing justifications for the cooperation between our government and industries for challenges to this green growth as well. The national effects of economy are very large from leading the construction industry to the green construction from the national level. Accordingly, this study suggested responsive plans for both government and companies for the activation of green construction by selecting 15 frontier green construction products and analyzing them by the type of strategy in Korea, as well as analyzing recent trends of overseas green construction.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2011

IT 디바이스, 컴퓨터 등의 인지능력 향상 기능을 가진 전자기기의 혁신적인 발전과 사용으로 현대인간의 인지능력은 수백 년 전 인간에 비하여 크게 확대되었다. 그러나 이러한 인지향상 기기들은 아직까지는 대부분 인간의 몸에 휴대한 상태로 사용되고 있으며 인간의 신체와 일체화되거나 스며들어 자연스럽게 융합접속되어 있지 않다. 만일 인지향상 기능을 갖는 정보통신 전자기기들이 인간의 몸과 일체화되어 활용할 수 있다면 인간의 인지능력은 상상을 초월할 정도로 향상될 것이다. 본 고에서는 이러한 인간인지의 향상을 목적으로 하는 인지향상 융합기술 개념에 대해 간략하게 소개하고 인지향상 융합기술의 사례와 전망에 대하여 살펴보았다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.239-247
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• 2020

Technological convergence is yielding new values and affecting various fields not by single technology but by convergence between technologies. This study aims to analyze the IT -BT-NT convergence and differences between technologies in respect of collaboration within (inventor) and between (assignee) organizations. Among the main technologies leading the technological convergence, IT is the most active of converging with other fields. BT is knowledge-intensive and strong cooperative networks are important in this area. NT is applied in various industrial fields upon the basic technology. Using the data on applied and granted patents by Korean applicants in the U.S., this study conducted quantitative analysis and ANOVA to gain the following results. First, the degree of convergence in between IT-BT-NT is continuously increasing since 2002. Second, BT is where the collaboration within and between organizations is the most active among IT-BT-NT. Third, there were certain differences in the degree of convergence according to the years and the fields of technologies in all the IT-BT-NT. Organizations cooperate with other institutions to sustain their competitiveness with limited internal resources. Companies in these fields are recommended to perform diverse strategies to pursue further collaboration with the outside.