• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.177-205
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• 2016

Growing competition is forcing firms to unceasingly achieve innovation for survival. In a response to increased competition, firms invest in R&D. In this vein, this study focuses on the relation between competition and R&D investments of firms. To this end, we decompose competition into actual and potential competition first and then empirically examine effects of each competition on firms' R&D investments. Further, this study also focuses on moderating roles of firms' performance relative to their aspiration level on these relations. By using Compustat data, we found that actual competition hinders firms' R&D investments, but potential competition enhances R&D investments. In addition, the effects of actual and potential competition were moderated by firms' performance relative to their aspiration level. Specifically, negative performance strengthens the negative effect of actual competition on R&D investments, but attenuates the positive effect of potential competition. Moreover, positive performance moderates the effects of each competition in the same direction, but its moderating effects are stronger than negative performance. As such, this research seeks to identify the relations between actual and potential competition and R&D investments of firms and the moderating role of performance relative to aspiration level.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.133-144
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• 2011

The purpose of this study are as follows. First, to analyze relative LQ index of the No. of game company, the No. of employee and the amount of revenue. Second, to analyze personal competence, resource competence, performance competence, network competence and environmental competence of regional game contents R&D. The results are as follows. The LQ index results of company are highest in seoul and Kyunggi area' And In case of except of seoul & kyunggi, the competence of R&D which is daekyung, dongnam, chungcheong are in order. In case of 5 game R&D competence, chungchung, seoul & kyunggi, honam region are in order. The core competence of chungchung region are ideal venture ecosystem among inter-supportive R&D research center, ETRI, university and company.

• 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.83-94
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• 2003

본 연구는 국내외를 막론하고 SI 기업의 R&D에 대한 학문적 연구가 거의 이루어지지 않은 상태에서, 국내 대형 SI 기업들이 World Class SI로 성장하는데 견인차가 되도록 최초로 SI 기업의 R&D 모델을 제시하고 있다. 현재 날로 치열해 지는 SI 시장환경에 비추어 볼 때 향후 국내 대형 SI 기업들간의 보다 치열한 경쟁은 물론이고 국내외에서 선진 IT 서비스 기업들과 경쟁이 예상된다. 본 연구에서는 국내 대형 SI 기업들이 선진 IT 서비스 기업과의 경쟁에서 살아 남으려면 핵심 경쟁력을 확보해야만 하며, 이에 대한 방안으로 연구개발의 강화를 제시한다. 즉, SI 기업은 R&D를 통해 빠르고 복잡하게 변화하는 IT 기술을 적시에 도입하여 실제 프로젝트에 적용하고, 기존의 기술 및 프로세스의 개선을 통해 생산성을 향상시키며, 궁극적으로는 새로운 서비스 모델 개발을 통해 가치를 창출하는 목적을 달성할 수 있다. 이를 위해 R&D는 부가가치 창출, 미래혁신 주도, 신기술의 검증/평가/확산 담당, 응용기술의 표준획득 및 특허취득, 프로세스와 품질의 일관성과 효율성을 확보하는 역할을 해야 한다. 이러한 R&D 역할을 효율적, 효과적으로 수행하기 위해서는 중앙 R&D와 사업부 R&D를 동시에 운영하는 Hybrid Organization을 제안하고 있다. 또한 국내 대형 SI 기업의 R&D 담당자들과 설문, 인터뷰를 통해 본 연구에서 제시한 모델의 현실 적용성을 살펴보고, 바람직한 R&D 방향성을 제시하고 있다.

• Korea Trade Review
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.29-60
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• 2016

Research and Development(R&D) investment is an issue of central importance in any economy. In this paper we analyze the relationship between R&D spillovers and trade-related variables, using a two-stage model where duopolists simultaneously decide on R&D in the first stage and engage in Cournot competition in the second stage. We characterized and compared the free-trade and trade-restriction R&D equilibrium in a two-stage game of R&D investment followed by Cournot market competition. We also assessed the impact of varying the R&D spillover on the equilibrium outcomes and tariff. We showed for both free trade and protection cases that there exists a unique symmetric solution(subgame perfect Nash equilibrium). As the solution, while analytical, cannot be stated in closed form, we resorted to numerical experiments to investigate the equilibrium results. Our estimates indicate for both free trade and protection cases that the level of R&D investment and the rate of R&D expenditure decrease as the degree of R&D spillovers increases, and that there is an inverse relation between the degree of R&D spillovers and level of protection. The latter implies that the larger the degree of R&D spillovers, the lesser the level of protection.

• Journal of the Korean Academic Society of Industrial Cluster
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.16-28
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• 2007

This paper analyzes the effects of networking and competition on individual companies' R&D investment, focusing on pharmaceuticals, PCB (Printed Circuit Board), and auto parts sectors. Data were obtained through a survey on firms operating in Seoul, Incheon, and Gyung-gi metropolitan area. The estimation results suggest the networking with other actors in the clusters tends to increase R&D investments of individual firm's. But competition in a cluster tend to reduce individual firm's R&D investment. These results suggest the public policy promoting networking in a cluster could induce private firms' R&D investments and, therefore, should be maintained.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.439-458
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• 2009

In this paper, Two countries have invested directly using the two models Multinational Enterprises, foreign companies doing R&D subsidy policy analysis in their activities to attract. Multinational Enterprises to get the spillover effect from competitors, the introduction of subsidiary R&D resources with an incentive to R&D activities. The government has established a subsidiary to bring the country to foreign Multinational Enterprises for the purpose of improving the technological capabilities of Multinational Enterprises with their parent company R&D to increase the resources by foreign companies in their R&D investment to subsidize R&D activities that have an incentive to attract. In addition, foreign companies and government cooperative R&D by two things also increase the rate of funding for activities to bring the two subsidiaries of multinational R&D has increased the amount of additional resources, the economic interests of both countries get more will increase.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.231-242
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• 2011

The purpose of this study are as follows. First, to analyze relative LQ index of the No. of character company, the No. of employee and the amount of revenue. Second, to analyze the strength and weakness about technology competence, human resource competence, infra competence and network competence of regional character contents R&D. The results are as follows. The relative competitively LQ index results of company infra indicated all regional area are over 1 LQ index. But, in case of except of seoul & kyunggi, the competence LQ index of R&D which is jeju, dongnam(pusan & kyungnam) are in order. Final result suggested that the high competitiveness of regional character industry are seoul & kyunggi, jeju, dongnam area.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.81-100
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• 2015

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of factors hampering innovation on firm's R&D cooperation. We classify the obstacles to innovation into lack of money and information, and also distinguish between horizontal cooperation and vertical cooperation. We argue that different obstacles have a differential effect on the types of R&D cooperation. We examined the hypotheses using KIS (Korea Innovation Survey) data. The results show that deficiency of information is positively related to both vertical and horizontal cooperation, however, lack of money is not related to firm's R&D cooperation. Based on these findings from Korean manufacturing firms, the implications of the results and future research directions are discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.99-106
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• 2015

The purpose of this research is to bring supportive ways to reinforce the market competitiveness of fusion industry based on the rapidly arising fusion industries considering system improvement and fusion R&D support. The research has proceeded in the order of setup for competitiveness reinforcing way of fusion industry and deduction for competitiveness reinforcing way based on directivity. It classified the fusion industry into introduction, diffusion and development by time, and suggested expert fusion R&D, open type fusion R&D, customized fusion R&D, system improvement of market entrance and supportive way for public purchase as the supportive way. It's purpose is to lead the entrance into the new fusion market, stabilize to settle into the market and create high value products by resolving difficulties for the market entrance of the new fusion products & service, reinforcing the fusion capability and securing the competitive advantage.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.290-311
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• 2010

This study aimed at exploring the primary motivations in the behavior of MNCs' setting up R&D Labs in China, four main subjective motivations were founded. R&D Labs consisted of the following four types: local market support Labs, local technology support Labs, global technology center, and internationally interdependent Labs.he choices of the R&D Lab type features are different because of the various R&D investment motivations. Provided that MNCs' investment motivations in China are in order to obtain Chinese markets and customers, local market support Labs are supposed to be chosen so as to support Chinese markets; provided that investment motivations are in order to gain talents and science and technology resources, global technology centers are supposed to be used to achieve the highest synergy result; provided that investment motivations win an absolute competitive advantage in China, local market support Labs are extremely necessary in preoccupying markets; last but not the least, provided that investment motivations are environmental owing to their instability, local technology support Labs are a good choice for their relatively low R&D expenses.