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A Measure on Technology Transfer Activation of Government-Sponsored Research Institutes Focusing on Companies in Demand: Focusing on the Cases in the K Research Institute (수요기업 중심의 정부출연연구기관 기술이전 활성화 방안: K 연구원 사례를 중심으로)

  • Hwhang, Hyun-dug;Chung, Sun-yang
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.318-337
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    • 2015
  • Although the government continues to increase its investment into R&D, the technology transfer or commercialization success rate of the government- sponsored research institutes was lower than the investment. This research suggested the method of successful technology transfer through case study of technology transfer of the government-sponsored research institutes. Based on the case analysis of three types of technology transfer programs (corporate-demand model, technology-based model, and consortium-focused model) conducted by the K research institute, the study explained in detail that the technology transfer method by discovering potential companies in need is more effective compared to the general technology transfer marketing that advertises the technologies obtained by the research institutes to companies. In addition, since the preliminary R&D planning that considers the needs of the companies in demand has positive influences on the results of technology transfer, this study implied the importance of the strategic R&D planning.

Empirical Analysis of Evaluation System for Public Research Institutes: Focused on Differences of the Perception among Participants (연구기관 평가의 실증 분석: 평가 참여자의 인식차이를 중심으로)

  • Yi, Chan-Goo
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.36-69
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    • 2009
  • This work aims to firstly know what does the inside and outside participants perceive the system itself and its execution in the evaluation of the research institutes in science and technology sector which has been introduced in 1999, and to secondly discuss how can diverse perceptions among participants be integrated in the institutional and operational aspects. This has been conducted mainly by in-depth interviews with 99 staffs from 10 research institutes under the Korea Research Council for Public Technology as well as with 10 members of evaluation committee for research institutes. According to the in-depth interviews, the both inside and outside participants perceive that the evaluation of research institutes can be necessary and useful for the management of the institute itself and R&D programs in view of the strategic reasons as well as practical one. Despite of the affirmative perceptions to the evaluation of research institute, based on the common or individual experiences, they have also suggested that there will be lots of improvements in the individual components of evaluation system and its current status of execution.

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Relationship between Creativity and Performance in Government-funded Research Institute (공공연구조직의 창의성 수준과 연구성과 간 관계)

  • Park, Daesig;Cho, Keuntae
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.51-68
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    • 2015
  • The objective of this study is to empirically examine the relationship between creativity and performance in 10 government- funded research institutes of industrial science and technology. In order to analyze the relationship, the institutes are categorized into the high performance group and the low performance group based on research paper and patents The study uses discriminant analysis to identify the factors causing the difference between the two groups. The results show that there is no significant difference of individual creativity between the two groups whereas there is significant difference of group creativity and organization creativity. The study suggests that performance of government-funded research institutes depends on group and organizational creativity.

Simultaneous neural machine translation with a reinforced attention mechanism

  • Lee, YoHan;Shin, JongHun;Kim, YoungKil
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.43 no.5
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    • pp.775-786
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    • 2021
  • To translate in real time, a simultaneous translation system should determine when to stop reading source tokens and generate target tokens corresponding to a partial source sentence read up to that point. However, conventional attention-based neural machine translation (NMT) models cannot produce translations with adequate latency in online scenarios because they wait until a source sentence is completed to compute alignment between the source and target tokens. To address this issue, we propose a reinforced learning (RL)-based attention mechanism, the reinforced attention mechanism, which allows a neural translation model to jointly train the stopping criterion and a partial translation model. The proposed attention mechanism comprises two modules, one to ensure translation quality and the other to address latency. Different from previous RL-based simultaneous translation systems, which learn the stopping criterion from a fixed NMT model, the modules can be trained jointly with a novel reward function. In our experiments, the proposed model has better translation quality and comparable latency compared to previous models.

A Study on the Improvement of Research Records Appraisal Practice of the Government-funded Research Institutions (정부출연연구기관의 연구기록 평가 개선방안 연구)

  • Ahn, Chaeyoung;Kim, Jihyun
    • The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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    • no.66
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    • pp.105-155
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    • 2020
  • Research records are a type of record with a range of controversies over the core elements of management, such as the definition and scope of research records, and who manages research records, despite the critical need for their management. Research records have been neglected in blind spots because it is difficult to manage them, but if well managed, they are evaluated as records with a highly potential value that can be used infinitely later. In particular, government-funded research institutes, as both research institutes and public institutions, take responsibility for systematic management of these research records. Therefore, as this study noted the necessity of research records appraisal for the systematic management of research records in government-funded research institutes, and conducted interviews with 11 records managers working at government-funded research institutes in Korea, the current status of research records management and appraisal of government-funded research institutes was identified. As a result, improvement measures for research records appraisal was suggested as follows. First of all, in the light of the current public records appraisal system, there is a problem of effectiveness in applying it to the research record appraisal system as it is. Therefore, this study suggested that an appraisal system appropriate for research records was needed, and proposed plans for improving the research records appraisal system in terms of purposes, authority, methods, time point, tools and criteria for appraisal.

An Empirical Study on Improving the Institutional Evaluation System for Government-funded Research Institutes (GRIs): Focusing on the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences (정부출연(연) 기관평가시스템 발전방안 논고: 경제.인문사회연구회를 중심으로)

  • Hwang, Byung-Yong;Kim, Dae-Cheol;Lee, Jang-Jae
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.137-164
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    • 2009
  • As a means to address the modes of developing institutional evaluation system aimed at improving performances of GRIs, this study looked into the influential relations where institutional evaluation system has an impact on receptivity of evaluation outcomes and performances of institutes optimize their performances. After making analysis, it was confirmed that the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences' institutional evaluation system for GRIs had a positive (+) influence on performances of research institutes, and receptivity of evaluation outcomes is related to performances of research institutes. In addition, it was also confirmed that institutes with high performances, in general, have high level of receptivity of evaluation outcomes along with positive recognition of institutional evaluation system. However, weaknesses of the Council's institutional evaluation system for GRIs resulted in low level of receptivity amongst GRIs, and thus there is limitation on the government and the Council in the active utilization of evaluation outcomes. Finally, it addressed the limitations and areas for improvement in relation to research outcomes.

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Effects of Teacher Training Program using Engineering Research Institutions on Elementary and Secondary School Teachers' Recognition about Engineering (공학 연구기관을 활용한 교사 연수가 초·중등학교 교사들의 공학에 대한 인식에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Youngmin;Choi, Jin-su;Lee, Youngju
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.38-45
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the change of perceptions and images of teachers about engineering, according to practical training in laboratories of engineering research institutes. For this purpose, 149 elementary and secondary school teachers were surveyed before and after visiting the engineering research institutes and examined the perception of engineers and engineering. Through this teacher training program, perceptions and images of most teachers are changed positively and they can understand practically about engineering, and related fields. The results of this study can be used as basic data for the development, operation, and expansion of teacher training using advanced science and technology research institutes with excellent human and material resources.

The Economic Benefit of the R&D Performance from Government-funded Research Institute for Science and Technology: Evidence from K Research Institute (과학기술계 정부출연연구기관 연구개발 성과의 경제적 편익 추정에 관한 연구 : K연구원의 사례를 중심으로)

  • Kwak, Kiho
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.1122-1158
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    • 2017
  • Government-funded research institutes in the field of science and technology of Korea have contributed to the growth of the national economy and industrial development since the 1960s. However, those institutes recently have faced with criticism over the R&D performance on investment. Accordingly, we suggest two analytical approaches that estimate the economic benefit of the R&D performance of those institutes, (1) 'bottom-up' approach that aggregates the economic benefits of individual performances, e.g., technology transfer, technology support for small and medium enterprises, and the supply of researcher manpower and (2) 'top-down' one that estimates the contribution of those institutes on the economic growth of the industries that the R&D performance of those institutes is mainly utilized. In addition, by applying two approaches, we computed the economic benefit of the performance of the K institute in the 1996-2014 periods at 12.3 trillion won and 29.5 trillion won, respectively. Lastly, we suggest the feasibility of two approaches from the perspective of complementarity. Our study provides analytical approaches that estimate the economic benefit of the R&D performance from government funded research institutes in Korea. Lastly, our study contributes to the understanding of public on science and technology as well as the enhancement of legitimacy on those institutes among the public.

Detection of Soybean mosaic virus by Reverse Transcription Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (Reverse transcription Loop-mediated isothermal amplification을 이용한 Soybean mosaic virus의 진단)

  • Lee, Yeong-Hoon;Bae, Dae-Hyeon;Kim, Bong-Sub;Yoon, Young-Nam;Bae, Soon-Do;Kim, Hyun-Joo;Mainali, Bishwo P.;Park, In-Hee;Lee, Su-Heon;Kang, Hang-Won
    • Research in Plant Disease
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.315-320
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    • 2015
  • Soybean mosaic virus (SMV) is a prevalent pathogen that causes significant yield reduction in soybean production worldwide. SMV belongs to potyvirus and causes typical symptoms such as mild mosaic, mosaic and necrosis. SMV is seed-borne and also transmitted by aphid. Eleven SMV strains, G1 to G7, G5H, G6H, G7H, and G7a were reported in soybean varieties in Korea. A reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) method allowed one-step detection of gene amplification by simple procedure and needed only a simple incubator for isothermal template. This RT-LAMP method allowed direct detection of RNA from virus-infected plants without thermal cycling and gel electrophoresis. In this study, we designed RT-LAMP primers named SML-F3/B3/FIP/BIP from coat protein gene sequence of SMV. After the reaction of RT-LAMP, products were identified by electrophoresis and with the detective fluorescent dye, SYBR Green I under daylight and UV light. Optimal reaction condition was at $58^{\circ}C$ for 60 min and the primers of RT-LAMP showed the specificity for nine SMV strains tested in this study.