• 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.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.31-39
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to propose a scientific performance evaluation framework for measuring and managing the overall outcome of complex types of projects that are linked to public demand-based commercialization, such as information system projects and public procurement, in integrated national R&D projects. In the case of integrated national R&D projects that involve multiple research institutes to form a single final product, and in the case of demand-based demonstration and commercialization of the project results, the existing evaluation system that evaluates performance based on the short-term outputs of the detailed tasks comprising the R&D project has limitations in evaluating the mid- and long-term effects and practicality of the integrated research products. (Moreover, as the paradigm of national R&D projects is changing to a mission-oriented one that emphasizes efficiency, there is a need to change the performance evaluation of national R&D projects to focus on the effectiveness and practicality of the results.) In this study, we propose a performance evaluation framework from a structural perspective to evaluate the completeness of each national R&D project from a practical perspective, such as its effectiveness, beyond simple short-term output, by utilizing the Hourglass model. In particular, it presents an integrated performance evaluation framework that links the top-down and bottom-up approaches leading to Tool-System-Service-Effect according to the structure of R&D projects. By applying the proposed detailed evaluation indicators and performance evaluation frame to actual national R&D projects, the validity of the indicators and the effectiveness of the proposed performance evaluation frame were verified, and these results are expected to provide academic, policy, and industrial implications for the performance evaluation system of national R&D projects that emphasize efficiency in the future.

• Proceedings of the Technology Innovation Conference
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• 2004.02a
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• pp.17-41
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• 2004

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.131-143
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• 2014

Purpose: This paper discusses the intrinsic assumption of one-dimensional relationship between the upper and lower levels in AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) for the Preliminary Feasibility Study of National R&D Program. This assumptions has not been questioned in academia and industry so far. Methods: This discussion is induced by understanding the Theory of Attractive Quality (Kano et al. 1984) and explains the limitation of AHP in the preliminary feasibility study of national R&D program. Results: In this paper, we propose a new questioning method based on two dimensional perspective, which is named as 2D-AHP (two dimensional AHP), to overcome the limitation. The main idea stems from the observation that the relationship between the upper and lower levels in AHP can vary depending on the subject of R&D. Conclusion: The two dimensional perspective pointed out in this paper should be more deeply studied in the field of MCDM(multi-criteria decision making) since it can be applied to the more general problems in human decision making.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.67-96
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• 2000

This study aims to provide information about the priority setting and budget coordination of government R&D spendings in Korea. Based on the result of "survey, analysis and evaluation of national R&D programs" in FY 1999, this paper reviews the government R&D expenditures by concerned variables such as program objectives, sector of performance, character of work and technology fields. This paper also carries out an analysis on the government R&D supports as ways for the promotions of high technology-based start-ups and SMEs and regional innovation activities. It is found that relatively high investment is made in the industrial technology areas and development research, and there are some redundancies of R&D programs among ministries and agencies in terms of technology fields, program objectives and character of work. Policy implications and future research directions are suggested.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.184-203
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• 2010

Based on the figure of Program's result, the measurement of National R&D Program efficiency cannot have reflected its characteristic. This study explores the way to integrate evaluators' recognition into program efficiency as a means of embodying its characteristic. As a way of integrating their recognition with evaluating efficiency, two methods are applied. One is AHP as for evaluators recognition and the other is DEA as for measuring efficiency. This study tries to show the effect of evaluators on program efficiency and compares the result with one which did not include their recognition. The study also implies that the recognition of evaluators should be considered when the program efficiency is measured. Furthermore, this study suggests that the participation and role of evaluators should be expanded into evaluation of program efficiency.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.35-64
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• 2022

Currently, The budget expenditure for national R&D has been on the rise, and the quantitative performance in national R&D programs has been increasing accordingly. However, a growth of qualitative performance can not reach to an upward trend of quantitative performance. For a poor qualitative performance such as patent grades and technologies with low efficiency of technology transfer, the performance evaluation centered on "number of cases" is necessary to improve and start to introduce various "qualitative performance indicators". This paper focuses on "Triadic Patent Families" being measurable the overseas competitiveness of patent applied in major countries(the US, Europe and Japan). It analyzes the influencing factors to evaluate the quality of qualitative performance of R&D program. The result of this analysis shows a significant effect on the creating of triadic patent families within factors of R&D scale and project characteristics. This paper is significantly meaningful to expand insufficient triadic patent families to the target of interest rather than early study relatively, and to analyze the influencing factors of the creation of triadic patent families.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.209-217
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• 2016

This study with the aim to develop a system that can be objectively measured and evaluated as a scientific support and of R&D. To this end, this study aimed at companies participating in the development of national technology transfer support program for SMEs examined the factors affecting performance. By developing metrics that meet the business objectives refer to the applicable national and international case studies and literature reviews, etc. In order to achieve the systematization of technology evaluation index, which was selected indicators. To evaluate the weight through the duality comparing selected indicators in order to take advantage of the AHP analysis conducted targeted surveys.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.331-364
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• 2013

This work aims firstly to analyse the evaluation expertise in the National IT Industry Promotion Agency(NIPA) which is charge of funding and promoting R&D programs in the field of IT industry, a main part of 'Technology Innovation Program for Knowledge Economy' supported by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy. It will also discuss the policy means for improvement of the evaluation expertise of the NIPA. The results show that the evaluation system of the NIPA has been fair in stage of the selection of evaluators and the career management system of evaluators. But it will be necessary for improvement in stage of the surroundings supporting the expertise during evaluation practise. Therefore, in order to improve the evaluation expertise of the NIPA, I suggested and discussed 12 policy means in accordance with the short term perspective and long term one.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06c
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• pp.99-104
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• 2010

정부는 미래의 성장잠재력을 확충하기 위해 국가경쟁력의 핵심인 과학기술에 대한 재정투자규모를 지속적으로 확대하고 있다. 지속적인 R&D투자 확대의 결과로 국가 중요핵심기술 개발이 활발히 이루어지고 있어, 이에 대한 보안관리 또한 중요시 부각되어 금년부터 국가과학기술위원회는 조사 분석 시 보안과제 현황을 조사하는 등의 노력을 기울이고 있다. 그러나, 보안과제의 경우 엄격한 보안대책 요구등의 행정부담 증가의 이유로 인하여 활성화되지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 '09년도 보안과제에 대한 현황분석 및 연구 애로사항을 조사하고, 보안과제에 대한 일선 연구자들의 적극적인 참여를 유도하기 위한 핵심 지원방안을 AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) 기법을 통하여 설계하여 보안과제 활성화를 위한 주요 의사결정의 도구로 활용한다.