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The Role of the University in the Innovation Ecosystem, and Implications for Science Cities and Science Parks: A Human Resource Development Approach

  • Ferguson, David L.;Fernandez, Ramon Emilio
    • World Technopolis Review
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.132-143
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    • 2015
  • In the 21st Century, scientific discovery and technological development are fueled by unprecedented changes in knowledge, societal needs and wants, engineering designs, materials, and instrumentation. Such rapid global changes pose major opportunities and challenges for the innovation ecosystem-especially in developing countries. In particular, our models for human resource development and engagement must evolve so as to better prepare leaders in higher education institutions, research institutes, science cities and science parks, businesses and industries, and governments. Universities throughout the world must play a greater role in both the research and practice of human resource development and engagement for the knowledge-based and creative economies. This paper explores the current and potential talent development and talent engagement dimensions of universities in economic development, and research and practice in education and policy-with implications of such dimensions for science cities/science parks. The paper highlights the importance of a greater role for universities, in collaborating with business/industry and governments, in examining new economics-sensitive and values-sensitive models for education and human resource development so as to better understand and support innovation in global contexts.

Visualizations of Relational Capital for Shared Vision

  • Russell, Martha G.;Still, Kaisa;Huhtamaki, Jukka;Rubens, Neil
    • World Technopolis Review
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.47-60
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    • 2016
  • In today's digital non-linear global business environment, innovation initiatives are influenced by inter-organizational, political, economic, environmental, technological systems, as well as by decisions made individually by key actors in these systems. Network-based structures emerge from social linkages and collaborations among various actors, creating innovation ecosystems, complex adaptive systems in which entities co-create value. A shared vision of value co-creation allows people operating individually to arrive together at the same future. Yet, relationships are difficult to see, continually changing and challenging to manage. The Innovation Ecosystem Transformation Framework construct includes three core components to make innovation relationships visible and articulate networks of relational capital for the wellbeing, sustainability and business success of innovation ecosystems: data-driven visualizations, storytelling and shared vision. Access to data facilitates building evidence-based visualizations using relational data. This has dramatically altered the way leaders can use data-driven analysis to develop insights and provide ongoing feedback needed to orchestrate relational capital and build shared vision for high quality decisions about innovation. Enabled by a shared vision, relational capital can guide decisions that catalyze, support and sustain an ecosystemic milieu conducive to innovation for business growth.

Why Do Startups Fail? A Case Study Based Empirical Analysis in Bangalore

  • Kalyanasundaram, Ganesaraman
    • Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.79-102
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    • 2018
  • In an entrepreneurial ecosystem, the failure rate of startups is extremely high at 90%, and every startup that fails becomes an orphan. This phenomenon leads to higher costs of failure for the entrepreneurs in the ecosystem. Failed startups have many lessons to offer to the ecosystem and offer guidance to the potential entrepreneur, and this area is not fully explored compared to the literature on successful startups. We use a case based method distinguishing a failed startup and a successful startup, studying the entrepreneurial characteristics and firm level factors which cause the failures, in the technology startup ecosystem of Bangalore. We study one of the modes of exit adopted by failed startup entrepreneurs and draw key lessons on causes that culminate in failures. We have identified that factors such as the time to minimum viable product cycle, time for revenue realization, founders' complementary skillsets, age of founders with their domain expertise, personality type of founders, attitude towards financial independence and willingness to avail mentorship at critical stages, will decisively differentiate failed startups from the successful ones. Accordingly, implications have been derived for potential entrepreneurs for reducing the cost of failures in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

A Study on The Technological Ecosystem Landscape in Kauffman's NK Model (Kauffman의 NK모형에 따른 기술생태지형연구)

  • Cho, Sang-Sup
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.481-499
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    • 2012
  • This paper shows a empirical results by adopting Kauffman' NK model. First, we find interdependence parameter K is nine in the technological ecosystem Landscape. According to principal component analysis, our technological ecosystem landscape is based on K=N-1 technology structure. Second, to Kauffman NK model, our technological ecosystem landscape is completely uncorrelated each other and contains a large number of local optima. As additional technology rises, the number of local optima rises rapidly. Our results mean that the more complexity in the technological ecosystem landscape, the less effective technology innovation will be in our country's technology system.

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A Study on Business Ecosystem Model for Technology Commercialization: Focused on Its Application to Public R&D Commercialization (기술사업화의 비즈니스 생태계 모형에 관한 연구: 공공 연구개발성과 사업화에의 적용을 중심으로)

  • Park, Wung;Park, Ho-Young
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.786-819
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    • 2014
  • Emphasizing the importance of R&D as a source of open innovation, Korean government is developing various programs focused on technology commercialization and is expanding investment on it. In spite of those efforts, technology commercialization is not vitalized yet due to the lack of demand for technology transfer, R&D planning scheme without considering market, immaturity of technology market, and so on. This study aims to suggest the business ecosystem model so that technology commercialization could be facilitated based on business ecosystem perspective. We set the framework for modeling a business ecosystem through reviewing the previous works, and draw several problems to be solved regarding public R&D commercialization in Korea from the perspective of ecosystem. Considering those, this research proposes the business ecosystem model for public R&D commercialization as a reference model for describing, discussing, and developing the technology commercialization strategy. The proposed model consists of 4 domains as follows: R&D, technology market, information distribution channels, and customers. The business ecosystem model shows that technology commercialization could be facilitated to create the market value through close relationship and organic cooperation among its members that form the ecosystem. Public research institutes as a keystone player could control the fate of the ecosystem. In this regard, this paper suggests roles of public research institutes for evolving the business ecosystem.

Technological status of Biocluster in Daedeok Innopolis: With the focused on the patent analysis (대덕 바이오클러스터의 기술현황: 특허 분석을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Yoon-Dong;Choi, Jong-In
    • Journal of Technology Innovation
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.215-237
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    • 2008
  • KIPRIS patent database was analyzed for identifying the technological status of Daedeok Innopolis Biocluster. It was found that the pattern of activities among various technological areas in Daedeok Biocluster is similar to that of an advanced country rather than those of other cities in Korea. The technological growth in Daedeok Innopolis Biocluster is in the progressive stage, which may be due to the innovative activities rather than the rise in the number of new firms or institutes. The concentration of technology in Daedeok Innopolis Biocluster is a favorable condition for the innovation activities. The trend for the technological concentration was remarkably consistent with the growth curve that a population increases according to the logistic equation. The logistic growth may be represented by the result of competition due to the limited resource allocation and then innovation cluster is corresponding to the ecosystem composed by biological individuals. There is strong competition in Daedeok Innopolis Biocluster in around 2009, so the government might make a policy to encourage the technological diversity for healthy knowledge ecosystem.

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R&D Service Industry Innovation Plan to Improve R&D Productivity and Vitalize Technology Innovation Ecosystem (R&D 생산성 제고와 기술 혁신 생태계 활성화를 위한 연구 서비스산업 혁신 방안)

  • Pyoung Yol Jang
    • Journal of Service Research and Studies
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.144-158
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    • 2023
  • R&D (Research and Development) investment by companies and the government continues to increase, and the total R&D expenditure of public and private sectors in 2021 reached KRW 102 trillion, and the ratio of R&D investment to GDP was 4.96%. It ranks second in the world after Israel. This study analyzes the current status of the domestic R&D service industry and the research and development (R&D) innovation ecosystem based on the business activity survey data of the National Statistical Office in terms of improving R&D productivity of domestic R&D investment that has exceeded 100 trillion won, and analyzes the global R&D service industry and analyzes the global research service industry and R&D service Industry support government policy As a result of the analysis, in the domestic R&D ecosystem, the R&D outsourcing demand of service companies is rapidly increasing, compared to the stagnant R&D outsourcing demand of traditional manufacturing companies. In order to respond to these changing demands for technological innovation, this study suggests balanced support for R&D outsourcing for manufacturing and service companies, expansion of domestic R&D outsourcing, establishment of R&D outsourcing strategies specialized for the service industry, establishment of an open R&D ecosystem, and innovation in connection with materials/parts/equipment strategies.

A Study on the Determinants of Business Performance of Agricultural Firms with the Digital Agriculture -Focused on Moderating Effect of Finance Support Program- (디지털농업화에 따른 농업경영체의 기업성과 결정요인에 관한 융복합 연구 -재정지원 프로그램 활용의 조절효과 중심으로-)

  • Choi, Sunju;Heo, Chul-Moo
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.225-239
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    • 2022
  • This study investigated the effect of digital agriculturalization factors on business performance with the use of financial support as a moderating variable for agricultural firm workers. The factors of digital agriculture were divided into digital technology innovation orientation, administration innovation orientation, healthiness of ecosystem and entrepreneurship orientation, and business performance was set as a dependent variable. 212 questionnaires collected from workers in agricultural businesses located across the country were used for empirical analysis. Analysis results using SPSS v22.0 and Process macro v3.4 are as follows: First, digital technology innovation orientation, administration innovation orientation, and entrepreneurship orientation have a significant effect on business performance, and the effect of ecosystem health on business performance is appeared to be insignificant. Second, the use of financial support was found to significantly moderating the relationship between digital technology innovation orientation and business performance, entrepreneurship orientation and business performance. On the other hand, it was found that the relationship between operational innovation orientation, business performance, and healthiness of ecosystem and business performance were not significantly moderated In addition, as a follow-up study, a study on the mediation model formed by the discovery of mediators and a study for a moderated mediation analysis through a conditional process model with additional mediators are required.