• STI Policy Review
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.41-61
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• 2017

The literature in research policy extensively addresses the interaction between public R&D and the society. Scholars have paid particular attention to the way science and technology are diffused into the society and industry with the aim of substantiating their potential value. In practice, having recognized the importance of the said interaction, R&D entities and governmental organizations promote scientific and technological innovations that result from their R&D activities. Yet, the nature of news media exposure as their primary channel to promote R&D outcomes has been remarkably understudied. Using the results of R&D projects supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), this study examines R&D entities' strategic use of the news media to publicize their outcomes. The empirical results suggest that the scale of an R&D project positively affects the counts of media exposure of its R&D outcomes, whereas the level of technology readiness and the technology life-cycle do not have significant influence. In addition, the results suggest that, compared to senior researchers, young researchers are more likely to publicize their R&D outcomes and that R&D outcomes from highly ranked universities are more likely to be publicized than those from lower-ranking universities despite our control for R&D outcomes. The aforementioned results suggest that in promoting the diffusion of science and technology, especially to the public, policymakers should be concerned about incentives for those who provide techno-scientific information, such as researchers. The social need for the diffusion of techno-scientific information into the public (e.g., technology transfer and diffusion) is an insignificant factor in determining the media exposure of such information, whereas personal benefits and sensitive issues related to a researcher's own R&D activities (e.g., justification for R&D activities) drive researchers to publicize their R&D outcomes. This paper suggests that policymakers, especially those concerned with better diffusion of scientific and technological innovations need to design a proper incentive system to maximize the societal benefits of media exposure.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제25권2_2호
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• pp.219-232
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• 2022

The aim of this study is to provide the dynamic convergence index that reflected the inherent characteristics of the convergence phenomenon and utilized the nationally-funded R&D projects data, thereby suggesting useful information about the direction of the national convergence R&D strategy. The dynamic convergence index that we suggested was made of two indicators: persistency and diversity. From a time-series perspective, the persistency index, which measures the degree of continuous convergence of multidisciplinary nationally-funded R&D projects, and the diversity index, which measures the degree of binding with heterogeneous research areas. We conducted the empirical experiment with 151,248 convergence R&D projects during the 2015~2021 time period. The results showed that convergence R&D projects in both public health and life sciences appeared the highest degree of persistency. It was presumed that the degree of persistency has increased again due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the degree of diversity has risen with combining with disciplinary such as materials, chemical engineering, and brain science areas to solve social problems including mental health, depression, and aging. This study not only provides implications for improving the concept and definition of dynamic convergence in terms of persistency and diversity for national convergence R&D strategy but also presented dynamic convergence index and analysis methods that can be practically applied for directing public R&D programs.

• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.281-307
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• 2020

A variety of approaches are being applied to improve the existing ex-ante evaluation by expert panels in publicly funded R&D. While the objective evaluation criteria are constantly being improved to screen and select the superior projects, alternative approaches such as random prioritization and logical modeling are also underway to overcome the conservative bias of reviewers and to secure disruptive innovation. This study intends to find critical implications for ex-ante evaluation of public R&D system from the comparison of Indonesia and Korea. For the comparative analysis, literature review and expert in-depth interviews are conducted on the national R&D system and the selection evaluation process. In Korea, the selection criteria of projects are legally promulgated for establishing an objective evaluation system, and at the program level, the major considerations in the planning process are specified by Presidential Decree. On the other hand, while Indonesia conducts R&D in 47 strategic fields largely by public research institutes (PRI) based on the non-competitive government contributions. This study draws out implications of institutionalizing the planning process at the level of program, and of increasing the ratio of contract-based competitive funding at the level of project in the national R&D portfolio.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.27-43
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• 2019

This paper examines spillover effects of R&D investment in the ICT industry to other industries by analyzing panel data composed of 6 manufacturing industries for the period of 1983~2011. Major findings are as follows; (1) The increase of R&D investment in ICT industry has a significantly positive relationship with the increase in the value-added of the remaining 5 industries with 3~10 year lags, depending on the source of R&D funds and R&D stage. (2) More specifically, public R&D shows the spillover effects during 3~7-year lag periods, whereas private R&D started to exert spillover effects from 9-year lag. The result implies that the public R&D appropriately targets projects with more spillover effects. (3) Basic research, applied research, and development showed the spillover effects for the period of 9~10, 7~10, and 10-year lag, respectively. (4) The R&D investment in 5 other industries such as machinery, chemicals, and materials does not have positive spillover effects to the remaining industries. Few studies have been done to analyze the R&D spillover effects to other industries, with certain limitations. This study contributes to the existing literature by analyzing the spillover effects of the different R&D funds and R&D stages, and by considering various time-lag effects.

• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.786-819
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• 2014

연구개발(R&D)은 개방형 혁신의 원천으로서 그 중요성이 강조되면서 정부에서는 공공 R&D 성과의 확산과 기술사업화를 위한 정책 및 투자 지원을 강화하고 있다. 지난 10여 년간의 지속적인 노력에도 불구하고, 기술사업화는 시장과 분절된 R&D, 취약한 수요기반, 미성숙한 기술시장 등으로 생태계가 아직 제대로 조성되지 못하면서 기대만큼의 성과를 내지 못하고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 생태계 조성을 기반으로 기술사업화가 활성화될 수 있도록 기술사업화의 비즈니스 생태계 모형을 제시하고자 하였다. 국내외 선행연구 분석을 토대로 모형 개발을 위한 프레임워크를 설정하였고, 생태계 관점에서 국내 공공 R&D 사업화 추진의 문제점을 도출하였다. 이를 기반으로 기술사업화 생태계 조성을 위한 참조 모형으로서, R&D, 시장, 정보 유통, 고객 등 4 가지 도메인으로 구성된 공공 R&D 사업화의 비즈니스 생태계 모형을 제시하였다. 생태계 모형을 통해 기술사업화는 연구기관을 비롯해 기술거래, 가치평가, 기술금융 등 생태계를 이루는 다양한 구성원들 간의 긴밀한 연계와 유기적 협력을 바탕으로 이루어지며 가치 창출도 가능함을 살펴보았다. 한편 기술사업화 생태계의 성패는 키스톤으로서 공공연구기관의 역할에 좌우되는 만큼, 본 연구에서는 기술사업화 생태계의 지속적인 발전을 위한 공공연구기관의 역할 방향도 제시하였다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.53-69
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• 2019

Purpose - National scientific technology R&D investment is exceeding 60 trillion won per year, and the results of patent applications and technology transfers are visually improving. However, despite the improving research results of national R&D, the practical results of technology startups are mediocre. It is now time to expand the construction of the technology commercialization ecosystem, where the expansion of national R&D leads to the results of technology startups. Therefore, this study discussed the measures to increase the competitiveness of technology startups through the factual survey of the companies that benefitted from R&D support programs. Research design, data, and methodology - This study targeted 996 companies that benefitted from the R&D projects of the Technology Transfer Center for National R&D Programs, and deducted itemized issues through the survey replies. Survey questions were prepared to estimate the national R&D results, and the technology recognition path, the purpose of detailed introduction of the technology, investment of the commercialization fund, economic results, and the factors of success and failure were analyzed. Results - As for the recognition rate of technology during the process of corporate technology commercialization through the technology transfer, recognition through project participation showed a high response rate, and diverse implications of technology commercialization were deducted through the analysis of economic results. As for the resolution alternatives, the proliferation of technology commercialization platform that can create excellent technology for the companies in early stages and the measure of expanding the distribution of technology infrastructure were suggested. In this study, public technology commercialization strategy is established, and the innovative marketing strategy is presented. Conclusions - This study reveal that the result of creating scientific technology jobs should be deducted, in order to produce the revolutionary results of job creation by suggesting the success models of technology commercialization based on domestic scientific technology. In particular, even though the support systems for public research results are being diversely suggested, accurate studies on their actual conditions are currently lacking. Therefore, this study suggest realistic political alternatives to assure results in the process of public technology commercialization, by examining the current state of public research results of R&D support institutions and diagnosing the issues.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.54-59
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• 2008

Traditionally R&D evaluation has been performed by experts who can understand the contents of the study area very well. Recently extensive application of quantitative evaluation methods have been attempted for introducing the administrative management system that poses greater importance on records and results. More objective reviews on the R&D outcomes are called for gaining public supports. In this paper a bibliometrical analysis is to be performed to evaluate satellite communication and broadcasting public R&D outcomes for last 7 years. Data envelopment analysis method is selected for evaluating the efficiencies of multiple outputs (papers, patents, royalties, technology transfers) where multiple inputs (number of researchers and R&D expenses) are given. R&D outcomes from 22 research institutes are being compared and satellite communication and broadcasting R&D efforts turn out to be highly efficient.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.615-621
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• 2016

본 연구는 정부R&D지원과제에서 정부R&D지원비율이 높을수록, 기업의 R&D행위와 의지에 도덕적 해이(moral hazard) 또는 대리인문제(agency cost)가 발생하여 지원단위당 기술적 성과가 낮게 산출되지 않을까 하는 의문에서 출발하였다. 본 연구에서는 정부입장에서 수혜기업의 모든 정보를 다 알 수 없어 정보비대칭이 발생하고, 기업입장에서는 총 R&D비용에서 정부지원비중이 커질수록 기업의 도덕적 해이가 발생하여 이로 인해 지원단위당 기술적 성과가 낮아질 수도 있는 개연성을 검증키 위해 정부 R&D지원과제에서 [정부R&D지원금/자기R&D비용] 비율이 기술적 성과에 유의적인 (-)의 영향을 미칠 것인가를 검증하고자 한다. 표본기업은 한국에서 '00-'09년까지 "지역공공기술개발지원사업" 수혜기업이며, 분석방법은 회귀분석 등을 사용하였다. 독립변수는 총R&D비용에서 [정부R&D지원금/자기R&D비용]비율을 사용하였고 종속변수는 출원특허건수, 등록특허건수를 사용하였다. 통제변수로 기업규모 및 총 R&D비용을 사용하였다. 분석결과는 다음과 같다. 정부 R&D지원비율이 높을수록, 지원단위당 기술적 성과와 유의적인 (-)의 관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 정부 R&D지원제도에서 수혜기업들의 R&D활동에서 대리인문제(도덕적 해이)가 발생할지도 모른다는 것을 의미하며 정부 R&D지원제도의 개선시, 이를 고려할 필요가 있다는 것이다.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.137-140
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• 2011

Research and development (R&D) is very important to acquire new knowledge in various fields. The significance of public R&D is also increasing, especially related to health policy making, establishing basic databases, and enhancing basic and clinical science. The total budget of general public R&D in Korea was approximately ten billon US Dollars in 2008, but the proportion of health care research was just below 10%. In private sectors, it was three times the amount allocated to the public budget. In this article, recent trends in public R&D in Korea, especially related to health care policy and biotechnology are summarized. A brief overview of the application process for a specific policy fund is also described for early-stage researchers in these fields.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2016년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.627-629
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• 2016

공개소프트웨어(오픈소스 소프트웨어) 개발을 R&D로 추진하게 되면 많은 이점이 있고 여러 국가에서 공개소프트웨어 기반의 R&D 프로젝트가 지속적으로 만들어지고 있다. 하지만, 아직 공공분야의 오픈소스 R&D 프로젝트에 대한 적절한 관리 방안이 정립되지 않아 프로젝트 수행의 어려움은 물론 R&D 사업의 실효적인 성과를 창출하는 데 한계가 있다. 이에 여러 선행연구 및 사례를 조사하고 공공분야 오픈소스 소프트웨어 R&D 프로젝트에 대한 전주기적 관점에서 오픈소스 특성에 맞는 구체적인 추진 및 관리 방안을 제안하여 제도의 실효성을 제고하고자 한다.