• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.164-186
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• 2020

It is generally known that a Science and Technology Park - as a representative example of an Innovation Cluster - produces network synergy among industry, university, research institutes, and other innovation actors in a specific area, so that it has a competitive edge over other regions in technological innovation. However, as the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic unfolds, it has become necessary to reduce face-to-face contacts and this could lead to lesser network synergy being produced in an Innovation Cluster. With this background, this research was designed and conducted to evaluate how COVID-19 has changed the activities in Innovation Clusters and explore future development scenarios. In order to find out the changes occurring in an Innovation Cluster, a survey was conducted among the people in Science and Technology Parks. The survey result shows that people are experiencing difficulties in technological innovation and support activities, and face-to-face contacts have been reduced in the Innovation Cluster. A scenario planning sought to explore the future development of the Innovation Cluster. It suggests that the transformation into a Digital Innovation Cluster, which is less affected by physical distance, but can still maintain the effectiveness of the networks, can be the key strategy for the future Innovation Cluster.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.1-46
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• 2012

The paper assesses the innovative performance and challenges that a small innovative country like Sweden faces in an era of intense global competition. We contrast innovative performance with similar countries in Europe as well as discus the reliability and validity of indicators used to shape policy development. The conclusion from the analysis shows that available input-output indicators must be used with some caution. Even if the supply and quality of indicators has increased for policy analysis, they still lack precision and validity to make broad claims about the innovative performance of companies and nations. It is argued that understanding knowledge flows (rather than simple input-output metrics) are a key to understand innovation processes for small countries at the innovation frontier; subsequently, small countries will have to abandon failed policy orthodoxies in order to cope with future policy challenges.

• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.325-342
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• 2019

Gendered innovation in Science, Technology and Innovation, which seeks better science for both men and women by integrating sex and gender analysis, has become an important issue in the entire process of STI, as initiated by the European Commission, Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Canada and the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Korea has also attempted to reflect gendered innovations in Science and Technology as a critical factor in the 3rd and 4th National Plan, followed by the Act on Women Scientists and Engineers (2002). Against this background, the aim of this study is to prioritize the policy instruments regarding gendered innovation in Research and Development. Through the Focus Group Interview (FGI) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), this study attempts to set the priority among selected criteria, various types of policy instruments, and the applied research development area. As a result, this study shows the preparation of the relevant legal and institutional mechanisms for the full introduction of gendered innovation in S&T, and the importance of various policy instruments for S&T innovation in the fields of planning, budgeting, managing national R&D projects, evaluating and impact assessment, etc., being derived in a systematic way to ensure their effectiveness.

• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.148-182
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• 2022

This study analyzed changes in the national research facilities & equipment (RFE) policies historically promoted by the Rho administration (2003~2007), Lee administration (2008~2012), Park administration (2013~2016), and Moon administration (2017~2019) in South Korea. By adding new variables such as policy goals and policy means to a model suggested by Hogwood and Peters (1983), policy change types and their flow could be better classified. Korean RFE policies showed various flows in the policy change types instead of a general flow, which is the order of policy innovation -> policy innovation -> policy succession -> policy succession. This finding indicates that each administration could pursue a higher-level policy change purposively. It is highly required to prepare policy development that devotes to organizing and operating a national council, reflecting in the government's comprehensive plan after evaluating policy effectiveness, improving items needed for the RFE status survey, and unifying the research equipment registration.

• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.328-359
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• 2015

To explain the performance gap between firms in the same industry, this study focuses on innovation. It provides a new framework using the dynamic-capability view based on empirical analysis of domestic businesses. The findings of this study are as follows: First, when the uncertainty and competition intensity in the business environment and the level of innovation have “fit”, it means that when the former goes up, so does the latter. In this regard, when the innovation capability of a firm is high, being “fit” means that the level of innovation is also high. When there was fitting innovation on industrial environment and innovation capacity, companies were able to achieve relatively high performance. Also, it was confirmed that instead of innovation for innovation capacity, innovation for industrial environment led to relatively higher performances of firms.

• 한국기술혁신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국기술혁신학회 2006년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.483-494
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to suggest the framework for innovation policy that the approach to popularization, diffusion, and S&T culture through the science and technology(S&T) fair. The innovation policy has a role which suggests direction to do behavior and concerns to social members. According to, this point of the diffusion of the S&T culture emerges the reasonable and adoptable innovation policy. Korean S&T fair have many problems, for example, a short historical background, lack of the fund and special human resource, so on. In this aspect, this study provides theoretical reviews and several issues for publicity of the innovation policy and S&T popularization and culture through the representative case-Future Tech Korea2006. Also, this study argues that "How to build and improve S&T fair", and "What the figure of S&T is that communicate and approach to people". Finally, the research for the S&T fair gives detailed and realized strategies for improving them.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.50-65
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• 2015

Recently US/EU governments are utilizing nanotechnology as a key catalyst to support national innovation policies with economic recovery goals. US/EU nano policies have been serving as a global model to various countries, including Korea. So the authors initially seek to understand US/EU national innovation policy interconnections, and then find the role of nanotechnology development within. To strengthen national policy coherence, nanotechnology development strategies are under evolution as an innovation catalyst for promoting commercialization. To strategically support nano commercialization, EHS (Environmental, Health, Safety) and informatics are invested as priority fields to strengthen social acceptance and sustainability of nano enabled products. The current study explores US/EU national innovation policies including nano commercialization, EHS, and Informatics. Then obtained results are utilized to analyze weaknesses of Korean innovation systems of connecting creative economy and nanotechnology development policies. Then ongoing improvements are summarized focusing on EHS and informatics, which are currently prominent issues in international nanotechnology development.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.29-56
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• 2022

본 연구는 새로운 지역혁신정책의 프레임인 전환적 지역혁신정책에 대한 리뷰 논문이다. 전환적 지역혁신정책은 지역주민의 입장에 서서, 시스템 전환의 비전을 가지고 기후위기, 고령화, 양극화에 대한 대응책을 발전시켜 나가는 정책이다. 이를 위해 포스트 클러스터론을 중심으로 한 지역혁신정책론의 연구 성과들을 검토하면서 전환적 지역혁신정책의 특성을 정리한다. 연구의 구성은 다음과 같다. 우선 클러스터론을 필두로 한 기존 지역혁신 정책과 구분되는 전환적 지역혁신정책론의 특성을 다룬다. 다음으로 전환적 지역혁신정책의 주요 요소, 시스템 전환의 유형, 산업형성과 관련된 연구들을 리뷰한다. 전환적 지역혁신정책이 기존 정책과 차별화되는 요소들을 정리하고 향후 논의가 발전하기 위해 다루어야 할 과제들을 도출한다. 임무지향적 프로그램을 통한 전환적 혁신과 기존 혁신의 연계, 전환의 구체적인 메커니즘의 탐색, 산업혁신과 사회혁신을 통합하는 시각의 도입, 산업융합과 사회혁신 융합을 위한 초학제적 연구·혁신 방식의 도입 등이 다루어질 것이다.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.81-107
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• 2009

경제성장의 핵심요소인 기업의 기술혁신 활동을 지원하기 위해서 정부는 다양한 지원제도를 운용하고 있다. 이와 관련하여 선행연구들은 기술혁신의 결정요인, 지원정책 수단의 효과 등에 대해 다양한 분석결과를 공급자적 관점에서 제시하고 있지만 정책수요자 측면에서의 특성에 관한 연구는 전무한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 과학기술정책연구원(STEPI)에서 실시한 기술혁신조사(2005) 자료를 활용하여 기술혁신 장애요인과 지원제도 활용간의 영향관계를 로지스틱 회귀분석(Logistic Regression Analysis)을 통해 살펴보았다. 분석결과 지원제도의 유형에 따른 일부 차이에도 불구하고 기술혁신 장애요인이 지원제도 활용에 유의미하게 영향을 미치는 변수임을 확인할 수 있었다. 자금 장애요인이 클수록 기업들은 유형을 불문하고 지원제도를 보다 적극적으로 활용하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 협력 장애요인을 크게 경험하는 기업일수록 기술지도/정보제공 관린 지원제도를 활용할 확률이 높았다.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.34-55
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• 2001

With increasing globalization, a proper policy for global inter-city networking strongly required, which presumes the study on the heterogeneity among regional innovation systems. While surveying the research results of the Evolutionary Economics, 1 stress that regional systems of innovation differ in technological capacities, industrial structures, institutional arrangements and socio-cultural features. 1 make the empirical investigation based on the data of Busan and Hamburg, making clear the regional specificities among regional innovation systems. The results show that regional systems of innovation in Busan and Hamburg are quitely asymmetric. They suggest also the limitation of neo-classical assumption on the ‘homogeneous production function’ and that policy-makers in regions should make the policy for ‘global inter-cities networking’, based on perspectives of regional heterogeneity.