• 경영과학
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.1-20
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• 2010

Many firms are trying to acquire innovative technologies and relative knowledge by offshoring R&D work. Although research to date has focused on the multinational corporations' motivations of R&D offshoring, such as cost reduction and market expansion, little is known about external or environmental factors influencing the performance of global R&D activities. We investigated the relationship between the offshore R&D performance and the technical capabilities of the parent company, the host country and the home country as enhancers from outside R&D facilities. The analysis uses European patent data and EU R&D scoreboard of 134 overseas R&D labs from 46 multinational corporations in 2005. Also, we calculated total patent number of each country for this. Results from path analysis supported our main hypothesis that the technological capabilities of the parent company and the host country positively affect the overseas R&D performances. By multi-group analysis, we also found that the relationships among the variables are different for each industry.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2018

This study aims to identify the causal relationship among public technology transfer, technological performance, and research and development (R&D) productivity. Using the impulse-response function(IRF) of a panel vector autoregressive model (panel VAR), this study suggests the results of how long the factors such as technological performance (patent), public technology transfer, and R&D productivity takes and lasts if a one-unit shock of standard deviation occurs. As a result, first, the increase of public technology transfer activities has no power to increase the technology performance but improve the R&D productivity. If the public institute increases its technology transfer activities by one unit, the R&D productivity will increase within five years. Second, the impact of increasing technological performance on improvement of public technology transfer and R&D productivity is an insignificant. Third, the effect of R&D productivity on the public technology transfer creates a substantial reaction after a current time. Considering the structural relationships among public technology transfer, technological performance, and R&D productivity, if policy makers intend to construct the active R&D circumstance, technology suppliers should be motivated to run the active R&D mechanism because they achieve gains.

• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.1192-1211
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• 2017

오늘날 혁신은 기존의 패러다임에 도전하며 자신의 분야뿐만 아니라 다른 여러 분야와 협력함으로써 이루어지며, 이에 따라 개방형 혁신의 중요성이 강조되고 있다. 본 연구는 개방형 혁신이 혁신 활동에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 분석하였고, 다양한 혁신 활동에서 조직혁신의 역할을 살펴보았다. 분석을 위해 과학기술정책연구원(STEPI)에서 수행한 2016년 한국기업혁신조사(KIS) 데이터를 활용하였고, 총 1,453개 제조업체를 표본으로 선정하여 로지스틱 회귀분석을 수행하였다. 분석 결과, R&D 협력은 새로운 지식이나 기술을 획득하기 위한 가장 대표적인 수단으로써 제품혁신에 긍정적인 영향을 미친 반면, R&D 협력은 공정혁신과는 큰 관련이 없는 것으로 나타났다. 조직혁신의 경우에는 R&D 협력이 제품혁신과 공정혁신에 미치는 긍정적인 영향을 모두 강화하는 것으로 나타나, 조직 변화는 새로운 혁신 활동에 긍정적인 역할을 한다고 설명할 수 있다. 즉, R&D 협력과 관련하여 기업들은 조직혁신을 고려할 필요가 있을 것이다. 본 연구는 다양한 혁신 유형의 인과관계와 역할에 대해 분석한 점에서 의의가 있으며, 향후 기업들이 혁신 활동을 원활히 수행하는데 기여할 것이다.

• Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.29-35
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• 2013

The United States Department of Energy (US DOE) is conducting research and development (R&D) activities under the Used Fuel Disposition Campaign (UFDC) to support storage, transportation, and disposal of used nuclear fuel (UNF) and wastes generated by existing and future nuclear fuel cycles. R&D activities are ongoing at nine national laboratories, and are divided into storage, transportation and disposal. Storage R&D focuses on closing technical gaps related to extended storage of UNF. Transportation R&D focuses on ensuring transportability of UNF following extended storage, and addressing data gaps regarding nuclear fuel integrity, retrievability, and demonstration of subcriticality. Disposal R&D focuses on identifying geologic disposal options and addressing technical challenges for generic disposal concepts in mined repositories in salt, clay/shale, and granitic rocks, and deep borehole disposal. UFDC R&D goals include increasing confidence in the robustness of generic disposal concepts, reducing generic sources of uncertainty that may impact the viability of disposal concepts, and developing science and engineering tools to support the selection, characterization, and licensing of a repository. The US DOE has also initiated activities in the Nuclear Fuel Storage and Transportation (NFST) Planning Project to facilitate the development of an interim storage facility and to support transportation infrastructure in the near term.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.177-205
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• 2022

중소기업은 상대적으로 작은 규모와 제한된 자원으로 인해 혁신의 효율성과 효과성을 높이기 위해 개방형 혁신에 참여한다. 기존 연구들은 중소기업이 수행하는 다양한 유형의 개방형 혁신활동의 성과효과를 연구하였으나, 특히 결합형 개방형 혁신활동의 성과효과에 대한 결과가 혼재한 상황이다. 이에 본 연구는 중소기업의 결합형 개방형 혁신협력활동을 'R&D 협력활동'과 'R&D 이외의 협력활동'으로 세분화하여, 각 활동이 기업의 혁신성과와 재무성과에 미치는 효과를 Heckman의 2단계 모형을 적용하여 검정하였다. 분석 데이터로는 과학기술정책연구원(STEPI) 주관의 국가승인통계인 '2020년 한국기업혁신조사: 제조업 부문' 자료를 활용하였다. 분석결과 중소기업의 R&D 협력활동은 시장최초 상품혁신 성과에만 유의미한 정(+)의 효과가 있고, R&D 이외의 협력활동은 상품혁신, 비즈니스프로세스혁신, 시장최초 상품혁신, 자사최초 상품혁신 모두에 유의미한 정(+)의 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 두 유형의 혁신협력활동 모두 재무성과에는 유의미한 효과가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 이러한 혁신협력활동의 성과효과는 중소기업 내에서도 기업규모에 따라 다른 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 중소기업 맥락의 개방형 혁신 연구에 이론적으로 기여하며, 중소기업 경영자의 혁신전략 수립 및 관련 정책입안자의 정책 방향 도출에 참고가능한 지침을 제공한다.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.99-111
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• 2016

This paper presents a framework to analyze the change in the research and development (R&D) efficiency of government-funded research institutes (GRIs) in Korea. Cumulative data envelopment analysis/Malmquist index method is utilized to analyze the changes in R&D efficiency of GRIs. Data analysis of the R&D activities of 10 GRIs in Korea Research Council of Fundamental Science & Technology showed that the average R&D efficiency of the 10 GRIs improved from 2009 to 2013. However, the efficiency of a few GRIs decreased in terms of the catch-up index. The proposed framework can help management teams diagnose the current state of R&D activities and determine the efficacy of strategic actions by comparing efficiencies in the past.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.99-108
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• 2022

Purpose: This study attempted to identify determinants affecting research collaboration and R&D distribution activities, especially regarding facility and equipment leasing of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Korea. The objective of this study was to find the most significant firm characteristics that affect firms participating in an R&D collaboration and distribution program and investing in R&D in terms of leasing payment for equipment. Research design, data, and methodology: This study analyzes which SMEs' characteristics influence external research cooperation activities by examining the SMEs that received government support for equipment leasing using multiple regression analysis and residual plots. The survey combined two databases: 1) a fact-finding survey of participating firms by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, and 2) leasing information by the Korea Association of University, Research Institute and Industry. Results: The study found that firm size positively impacts R&D investment, R&D collaboration and distribution. Conclusions: The study provided evidence to policymakers and government officials that firms with more employees will more likely participate in government support programs. The study results also prove that government officials believe firm location does not impact R&D investment, R&D collaboration and distribution.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.728-749
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• 2022

The information and communication technology (ICT) value creation process is inherently unobservable. In addition to the direct effect of ICT on productivity, some information or knowledge can create value through other knowledge activities. In this paper, we study the impact of ICT on productivity through R&D. We tested the mediating effect of R&D between ICT and productivity using panel data from 47 US industries from 1987 to 2013 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The results show that R&D partially mediates ICT and productivity. That is, ICT directly increases productivity, and some of its effects can be realized through R&D. Recipients who acquire knowledge through ICT have to interpret codified ideas and apply them to practice. The increased absorptive capacity that can be developed through R&D improves interpretation ability, allowing employees to share more complex ideas. Thus, ICT helps people to effectively communicate, but some information and knowledge can be realized and applied through R&D knowledge activities. This is the first study empirically examining the process of ICT value creation through R&D. It also provides practical guidelines for knowledge management, such as making decisions about ICT and R&D investments that are better done concurrently rather than individually to maximize their impact on productivity.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.137-150
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• 2020

This study analyzes not only the direct impact of R&D investment on corporate growth for 578 private firms in 2007-2016, but also whether corporate innovation activities play a role as a mediating parameter between R&D investment and corporate growth. For this purpose, we classify companies into IT and non-IT companies and measure the mediating effect by dividing innovation activities into the number of registered patents, applied patents, and sum of them. In addition, this study is based on both the systemGMM which is considered to be effective in solving the endogenous problems caused by the cross-sectional analysis in previous studies and ML-SEM which is a new method recently, and then compares two results. According to the empirical results, innovation activities has a role as partly mediating parameter on sales growth in non-IT companies. On the other hands, in IT companies, the increase in R&D investment leads to a decrease in sales of the company, and the increase in innovation activities increases the sales of the company. However, it was confirmed that IT companies also had positive effects by adjusting the lag of the R&D. In other words, this suggests that securing patents is more important than R&D investment for direct sales growth of IT companies. It is also evidence that immediate introduction of technology is necessary to respond to the speed of technological change since the cycle time of technologies of the IT field is relatively shorter compared to that of other fields.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.121-147
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• 2001

This paper analyzed the R&D activities of foreign companies in Korea. A survey was conducted using questionnaires along with the field interviews. The survey results show that some foreign companies in Korea actively carry out R&D indicating that Korea is becoming a R&D location for the multinational companies. It also shows the wide differences by industries, corporate size, foreign equity ratio, and home country of mother companies. It is suggested that Korean government should utilize the inward foreign direct investment to strengthen the national innovation system of Korea. Various policy measures were recommended to encourage foreign companies to have easier access to domestic R&D resources, carry out R&D activities, and interact with domestic R&D actors. It is also argued that it is necessary to eliminate negative environmental barriers perceived by foreign companies.