• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.149-177
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• 2009

Today, the phase of modem war is very different from past war. That is, the winning of war depends on the ability to obtain information and high technology. The purposes of this research are to propose an effective R&D governance model in national defense sector and to present R&D strategy for obtaining core national defense technology. As a part of collaborative innovation, the strategy to exchange R&D results actively between the defense sector and the private sector will be discussed. The main contribution of this research is dearly defining the concept of R&D governance in national defense sector and applying it to an actual case. The national defense R&D governance model proposed in this paper is based on the characteristics of national defense R&D which are different from other industries. The analysis of business success factors for national defense R&D through the T-50 case study is presented in detail. The T-50 case study reveals the importance of strategic intent, core technology knowledge base, organizational structure, and project management.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.181-214
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• 2015

This study analyzed the characteristics of the politics of technoscience and governance in South Korea, taking advantage of the policy changes on the stem cell research after Hwang's affair. In spite of generally accepted conventional wisdom that stem cell research had been suffering 'crisis' after the Hwang's affair, South Korea succeeded in developing the first and the largest stem cell product in the world. However, considering the fact that the stem cell research capabilities and technological competitiveness of Korea have been assessed as relatively low compared to the development performance, there is a need to extrapolate how such result could be achieved. To answer these questions, we analyzed changes in the R&D expenditure before and after the scandal and verified the 'crisis of stem cell research' following the reduction of financial support from government. From the analysis of literature on the policy reports and news, we described the process of discourse changes in policy and analyzed the characteristics of the politics of technoscience and governance of stem cell research. This study emphasized that the government R&D and regulation policy play the key roles in the development of stem cell research rather than in the technological competitiveness in South Korea. Furthermore, this study argued that democratic governance still does not work under the policy conditions that technocratic decision-making of stem cell research fails to learn from the Hwang's affairs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.41-55
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• 2013

• The Science & Technology
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• s.497
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• pp.38-41
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.513-514
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• 2017

• Informatization Policy
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.74-93
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• 2016

This paper proposes Korean national science and ICT policies in artificial intelligence (AI) field. After analyzing the AI trends in major countries as an initiative for global competitiveness, we suggest for new solutions for nutcracker threats and provide policy recommendations for strengthening competitiveness and commercialization in AI field of Korea. Korea's AI status was diagnosed in the order of governance, research and development (R&D), technology commercialization, law and legislation, and human resources strategy. In conclusion, it proposes improvement of governance, procession of long term future market initiative R&D, development of AI commercialization platforms, preparation of research friendly law and environment, and the nurturing of practical and converging human resources system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.479-493
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• 2016

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.789-797
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• 2015

한국의 출연(연)은 과학기술 기반 창조경제 실현을 위한 선도적 탈추격 R&D 주체로서의 출연(연)의 역할모델 재정립을 요구받고 있으며, 이는 자율과 책무에 기반한 지속가능한 R&D 체제로의 패러다임 전환을 수반한다. 본 연구는 공공연구기관의 자율성을 정의하고, 자율성을 구성하는 요인을 기관장 선임 및 거버넌스, 연구전략 및 목표관리, 예산, 인력, 그리고 평가로 구분하고, Autonomy Regime on Wheel (ARoW) 모델을 통하여 제시하였다. 자율성을 구성하는 각 요인에 대한 핵심 질의를 정의하고, 한국과 선진공공연구기관의 현황을 파악하여 벤치마킹 분석을 수행하였다. 분석 대상 선진 공공연구기관은 독일, 영국, 미국의 기관들로 선정하였으며, 특히 연구회 구조의 유사성 및 각 연구회 간 연구분야 및 임무의 균형이 조화롭게 유지되고 있는 독일의 4대 연구회를 중심으로 연구를 진행하였다. 연구를 위하여 분석대상 기관의 홈페이지를 포함한 국내?외 문헌조사 및 독일, 영국, 미국의 현지조사 과정을 거쳤으며, 이와 함께 국내?외 관련 전문가들에 대한 인터뷰를 진행하였다. 한국 및 선진 공공연구기관의 자율성 현황을 분석한 결과, 자율성을 구성하는 요인들에 대하여 전반적으로 한국의 실질적 자율성이 상대적으로 약한 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 공공연구기관의 자율성을 정의 및 분석한 최초의 학술적 연구로서, 향후 자율과 책무에 기반한 지속가능한 출연(연) 발전을 위한 전략 수립에 기반자료로 활용이 가능하다는 점에 그 의의가 존재한다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.693-705
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• 2012

It is increasing the necessity of technology cooperation between nations, in the world, more and more. The international cooperation for the technology development have the dissipating effect of costs and risks and encourage efficient use of the knowledge and eventually help the firms better access overseas market easily. The S&T diplomacy of Korea is, at present, on international S&T cooperation to secure technologies to strengthen base of science, technology and innovation. This tendency is closely related with the governance issue in international S&T cooperation. And This international S&T cooperation is connected with the internationalization of firms. But it is getting more difficult for a firm, especially smaller firm like Korean SME to sustain the technological advantage over any significant period. The small and medium sized enterprises as Korean SME, internationalization of R&D is difficult just to think in terms of one framework with the limited accumulation of informations and experiences. So against that situation, this paper shows a new concept 'SME co-ordinator' as the role client(or player) reinforcing international S&T cooperation, sustaining the technological advantage for Korean SME. And 'SME co-ordinator' leads Korean SME to progress 'open innovation' not 'close innovation' as well as serving adequate information about appropriate partners and capable employer to help manage the international S&T cooperation for Internationalization of Industrial R&D for Korean SME.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.29-54
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• 2008

This is to review the reform of the governance for science and technology advanced by the Noh Moo Hyun government. The reform mainly included introducing the vice premiership for science and technology, strengthening the coordinative function of the National Science and Technology Committee over the public R&D budget and programs, and establishing the Office of Science and Technology Innovation under the vice premier for science and technology. The reform aims to improve not only the policy coordinative mechanism but policy discourse mechanism over the enhanced science and technology policy. This paper argues that Noh Moo Hyun Government's reform of the governance for science and technology was not successful. The reason is that the reform targeted mainly to improve the policy coordination among government departments concerning science and technology policy. But it was nearly neglected to make effective the policy discourse mechanism linking the state actors and societal actors.