• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.237-258
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• 2022

As the global market environment changes, the domestic ICT industry has a growing influence on the world economy. This industry is regarded as an important driving force in the national economy from a technological and social point of view. In particular, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the ICT industry are regarded as essential actors of domestic economic development in terms of company diversity, technology development and job creation. However, since it is small compared to large-sized enterprises, it is difficult for SMEs to survive with a differentiated strategy in an incomplete and rapidly changing environment. Therefore, SMEs must make a lot of efforts to improve their own capabilities, and the government needs to provide the desirable help suitable for corporate internal resources so that they can continue to be competitive. This study classifies the types of ICT SMEs participating in government support programs, and analyzes the relationship between resources and performance creation of each type. The data from the "ICT Small and Medium Enterprises Survey" conducted annually by the Ministry of Science and ICT was used. In the first stage, ICT SMEs were clustered based on common factors according to their experiences with government support programs. Three clusters were meaningfully classified, and each cluster was named "active participation type," "initial support type," and "soloist type." As a second step, this study compared the characteristics of each cluster through profiling analysis for each cluster. The third step carried out in this study was to find out the mechanism of R&D performance creation for each cluster through regression analysis. Different factors affected performance creation for each cluster, and the magnitude of the influence was also different. Specifically, for "active participation type", "current manpower", "technology competitiveness", and "R&D investment in the previous year" were found to be important factors in creating R&D performance. "Initial support type" was identified as "whether or not a dedicated R&D organization exists", "R&D investment amount in the previous year", "Ratio of sales to large companies", and "Ratio of vendors supplied to large companies" contributed to the performance. Lastly, in the case of "soloist type", "current workforce" and "future recruitment plan", "technological competitiveness", "R&D investment", "large company sales ratio", and "overseas sales ratio" showed a significant relationship with the performance. This study has practical implications of showing what strategy should be established when supporting SMEs in the future according to the government's participation in the startup program and providing a guide on what kind of support should be provided.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.79-86
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• 2015

국내 중소기업은 양적인 증가가 지속되고 있으나 중견기업 또는 대기업으로 성장 잠재력은 미흡하다. R&D 투자부족에 따른 기술경쟁력 미흡이 성장 장애의 주된 요인으로 부각되고 있는데 우리나라 국가경제의 경쟁력과 창조경제 산업구조를 강화하기 위해서는 글로벌 역량을 확보한 히든 챔피언의 육성이 필요한 실정이다. ICT 중소기업을 대상으로 사례분석과 설문조사를 실시한 결과, 한국형 글로벌 히든 챔피언을 육성하기 위해서는 기업의 기술역량 강화가 가장 핵심이며 특히 원천기술 개발, 융합기술 역량강화를 위해 출연연을 비롯하여 산학연 협력 또는 개방형 혁신을 통한 맞춤형 개발지원과 공동 R&D 프로그램 개발이 필요한 것으로 나타났다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.204-214
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• 2017

This study aim to analyze the effect of the technology support program satisfaction on below ICT Small and Medium-sized Enterprises(below SMEs)'s technological performance. For the empirical analysis, we used the data collected from ICT SMEs technology support program conducted by ETRI - a government funded research institute. Among 153 beneficiaries, 141 companies participated in the survey and we used 102 of them for our analysis. Then, we used the mediation regression analysis. In our research model, we set the program satisfaction as a independent variable, the amount of technology support as a mediator variable and the technological performance as a dependent variable. Results show that program satisfaction has positive and significant impact on both amount of technology support and technological performance and amount of technology support has complete mediation effect on product innovation while has partial mediation effect on technological innovation. Our findings imply that more ICT SMEs technology support programs that satisfying the beneficiaries should be developed until the rest of ICT SMEs could become the hidden champions.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.11
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• pp.2238-2249
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to analyze the relations of innovation and productivity following the introduction of ICT and the effects in the process of innovative investments activity-innovation-productivity, not only by finding causes and effects. For this purpose we conducted surveys of SMEs classified into 7 categories by type of business. To put it concretely, this study was performed to find out the foactors which allow companies to secure competitiveness by enhancing of innovative measures through ICT, and to further analyze the political implications for the development of small and medium-size business by conducting an empirical analysis of the process, from the determination of innovative investments all the way through to production. Analysis model used CDM model using econometric methods such as multiple regression analysis and multinominal logit analysis to produce results. Also we established and analyzed models of innovation investment determinants, innovation determinants and productivity determinants to analyze specifically the relations between ICT and productivity.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.34-44
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• 2017

This paper summarizes the results of the government R&D funding for ICT SMEs over the past five years, and compares the differences in R&D performance of the government funding methods (grant and loan). Two major ICT SMEs funding programs were examined, and the data used in the comparison were based on the performance analysis report published by the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning) every year. Considering that the projects' conductors were SMEs and that the R&D stages were in development research, the comparison categories were the number of patents and employment (or jobs) positions created, and commercialization success rate and its sales. Comparative analysis results proved that the SME R&D programs were funded with grants had excellent technological achievements in terms of the number of patent applications and registrations. On the other hand, SME R&D programs that were funded by the government loans had relatively higher economic and social achievements, such as employment effects and commercialization sales. However, it was difficult to come to a comparative conclusion on the category of commercialization success rate between the two programs. As the result, this paper provides suggestions for the direction and policy of the government financial support for ICT SME R&D.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.387-412
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• 2017

우리나라의 중소기업은 국가경제의 근간을 이루고 있으며, 고용창출, 기술혁신, 산업의 다양성 등 여러 측면에서 국민경제 발전에 있어서 실질적인 원동력이 되고 있다. 이로 인해 중소기업은 기술혁신을 통해서 혁신역량을 확보하는 것이 더욱더 중요해졌으며, 내부자원의 한계로 인해 경영에 필요한 다양한 정보와 여러 가지 도움들을 외부와의 협업과 다양한 네트워크 활동을 통해 습득해 나가고 있다. 더 나아가서 시장기회를 포착하고 조직 성장을 위한 수단들을 모색하기 위한 수단으로 기업가 정신 또한 필요하다. 본 연구는 ICT중소기업의 기업성과에 영향을 미치는 요인에 있어 기업가 정신과 기업의 혁신역량이 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 알아보고자 했으며, 사회적 자본이 기업가 정신과 기업성과 간의 조절역할을 하는지 살펴보고자 1,200개 기업을 대상으로 실증 분석을 했다. 분석 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 기업가 정신은 기업성과에 유의미한 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인됐으며, 사회적 자본 변수가 기업가 정신과 기업성과 간의 조절효과가 있다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 둘째, 혁신 역량이 기업성과에 유의미한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 또한 사회적 자본 변수가 조절효과를 한다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 연구 결과를 통해, 기업가 정신이 기업성과에 영향을 미치는데 있어서 사회적 자본이 중요한 역할을 하고 있다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.217-231
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• 2018

In Korea, small and medium sized domestic enterprises(SMEs) play an pivotal role in the national economy, accounting for 99.8% of all enterprises, 87.9% of total employment, and 48.3% of production. and SMEs were driving a real force of the development of national economy in many respects such as innovation, job creation, industrial diversity, balanced regional development. Despite their crucial role in the national development, most of SMEs suffer from a lack of R&D capabilities and equipments as well as funding capacity. Government-Supported Research Institute(GRI) can provide SMEs with valuable supplementary technological knowledges and help them build technological capacities. so, In order to effectively support SMEs, government and GRI must be a priority to know about the factors influencing the performance related to technology transfer and technological collaborations. The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of Innovative competences and CEO's entrepreneurship on Organizational performance in ICT small and medium enterprises, including the moderating effect of Social capital. This study adopted research variables such as Innovative competence, CEO's entrepreneurship as independent variables, with Organizational performance as a dependent variable, including the moderating variable of Social capital. 1,200 companies data which in the field of ICT SMEs were collected from the survey. The result of this empirical study is summarized as follows, First, CEO's entrepreneurship was confirmed to have a significant effect on organizational performance, and social capital variables were confirmed to have a moderating effect between entrepreneurship and organizational performance. Second, it was found that the company's Innovative competence was significantly affected the organizational performance. and also that social capital variables moderating effects. From these findings, it was confirmed that the Innovatibe competence plays an important role in influencing corporate performance.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.139-150
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• 2017

In Korea, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an pivotal role in the national economy, accounting for 99.9% of all enterprises, 87.9% of total employment, and 48.3% of production. In spite of their crucial role in the national development, most of SMEs suffer from a lack of R&D related resources. Public R&D organizations such as government-funded research institutes can provide SMEs with valuable supplementary technological knowledge and help them build technological capacity. In this regard, this study estimated the effect of internal R&D investment and private-public R&D cooperation on technological innovation of ICT SMEs based on 2016 ETRI Survey. Building on previous literatures, the study established and tested a research model using binary logistic regression analysis. First, internal R&D investment and preferences for open innovation demonstrated the strengthening of R&D collaboration. Second, internal R&D investment and R&D cooperation showed a positive effect on both product and process innovation. Therefore, internal R&D capability and taking advantage of R&D collaboration are needed to achieve technological innovation for SMEs in ICT sector. This study also discuss implications for encouraging private-public R&D cooperation.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.170-182
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• 2013

카자흐스탄은 한국의 기술과 문화에 대해 높게 평가하고 있으며 한국을 자국 경제발전의 롤모델로 인식하고 양국 간 관계를 전략적 동반자 관계로 격상시키는 한편 협력 분야를 에너지, 자원 분야에서 기초과학과 IT 분야로 확대하고 있다. ICT는 카자흐스탄이 산업 다각화를 위해 전략적으로 육성하고자 하는 분야로 막대한 ICT 프로젝트를 제시하며 세계적인 경쟁력을 가진 우리 ICT 기업의 투자와 참여를 적극 요청하고 있다. 카자흐스탄과는 과거 (주)대우의 카작텔레콤 인수를 시작으로 ETRI의 우정, 이러닝 등 기술 지원 사업과 정책자문 등 다양한 협력 사업 경험을 가지고 있다. 그러나 양국 정부의 지원을 바탕으로 협력 사업을 진행하는 공공기관이나 충분한 자체 사업 역량을 보유한 대기업에 비해 모든 면에서 열세인 중소기업은 정확한 정보를 바탕으로 구체적인 전략을 수립하고 현지에 진출해야만 성공할 가능성이 높다. 따라서 본고에서는 우리 ICT 기업의 카자흐스탄 시장 진출을 지원하기 위한 사전 연구로서 ICT 시장 현황을 파악하고 현지 시장 진출 시 고려해야 할 요인들을 소개하고, 전략적 접근 방법을 제시하고자 한다.

• TTA Journal
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• s.163
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• pp.144-147
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• 2016

2011년 사업을 시작해 현재 국내 최고의 통합 솔루션 전문기업으로 발돋움한 (주)뉴론웍스는 대한민국 ICT의 역사를 개척한다는 자부심으로 가득한 회사이다. 제조 ICT, 물류 ICT 등 다양한 ICT 서비스를 제공하고 있으며, 전체 직원의 70%가 연구 개발 인력으로 이루어져 있다. 이러한 인적 자원은 (주)뉴론웍스가 중소 규모 SI 플랫폼, 클라우드 기반 모바일 솔루션, 웹서비스, 스마트팩토리 솔루션 등 여러 첨단 융합 ICT 분야에서 우수한 기술력과 경쟁력을 축적하는 데 중요한 바탕으로 작용했다. 한편 섬유정보화 전문기업인 (주)보강시스템은 1994년 설립 이후 제직, 염색, 후가공 등 섬유업종 정보화 시스템을 구축해왔다. 보강시스템의 솔루션은 20년 간의 축적된 기술력을 바탕으로 230여 개의 섬유업체에서 이용되고 있다. 각자의 전문 분야에서 인정받고 있는 뉴론웍스와 보강시스템은 IoT 기반의 스마트 팩토리 구현을 위해 힘을 합쳤다. 하지만 인적 자원에 투자를 함에도 중소기업 단독으로 기술 개발 및 성장을 하는 데는 한계가 있었고, 고민 끝에 한국정보통신기술협회(TTA)의 표준 자문서비스의 문을 두드리게 되었다.