• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.87-109
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• 2022

The study attempts to examine the system-building activities of scientific institutions in developing the Molecular Diagnostic (MDs) Innovation System in India. Scientific Institutions are the precursor of any technological development with their capabilities in generating new ideas. MDs are advanced and accurate diagnostic technology with considerable scope to serve the diagnostic needs and requirements of the healthcare system. We adopted a System framework and analyzed the development of MDs in terms of the Technological Innovation System (TIS) functions, and the systematic challenges are assessed through the System Failure Framework (SFF). Based on the secondary and primary survey of prominent science base actors, the study finds that the role of government is crucial for facilitating technological development within a science base through the mobilization of resources. In India, the MDs technological development gained significant momentum over the last decade with the development of specialized human resources and dedicated research institutes. However, we do find that the innovative capabilities in attaining need-based TIS are sub-optimal owning to the specific diagnostic needs of highly burdened diseases in the society. The system analysis reveals that the TIS functions are underperforming because of the absence of a well-defined funding mechanism and goal-oriented targeted policy regime of the government. Since MDs have a transformative effect on the present healthcare system, we argue that the government has to address the system-based challenges and issues for developing a need-based technological innovation system for MDs in the country.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.47-66
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• 2004

The relationship between innovation policies and locational competitiveness has emerged as an important area in the analysis of economic development, reflecting both the centralisation and decentralisation of globalising economic activities. The underlying spatial and institutional components are subject to a pattern of cumulative causation in which strategic interventions of policy actors exercise a decisive role in shaping competitive advantages, while promoting interactions with local and foreign partners both from the private and public sectors. The Singaporean development experience illustrated these strategic interdependencies of innovation policies and locational competitiveness. Based on her role as a manufacturing and service hub, Singapore is viewed as an infrastructural nodal point which is interconnected to global production networks. Paralleling efforts in the domain of technological innovation, Singapore's policies for locational competitiveness aim at an adaptive harmonisation of the needs of international investors with local developmental objectives. This orientation characterises also current efforts in promoting Singapore as a knowledge agglomeration with a distinct science base, expanding R&D operations and an innovation-driven pattern of economic development. In conclusion, the locational rationale of Singapore's innovation policies provides lessons for dealing with the spatial and institutional implications of technological globalisation.

• World Technopolis Review
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.108-118
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• 2016

There are very few studies on governance structure for the collaboration between HEIs and science and technology parks until today. Major activities between science parks and HEIs are R&D activities, collaborative researches, technology transfer, space provision for BIs and Technology BIs in the science parks, provision of technical, legal and financial services for start-ups and venture firms. Governance structure for the collaboration of high education institutes with science and technology parks is the handling of complexity and management of dynamic flows of collaboration between two groups. Three models on the governance structure for the collaboration are suggested in this study. The first model is a governance structure that links R&D system such as universities, public research institutes and private research institutes with industrial production cluster such as a group of companies and industrial parks. The second model is a governance structure that has four layers of hierarchy. This hierarchical governance model is composed of four levels of organizations such as central government, three actors, one center for collaboration and many individual research performers. The third model is a governance structure that networks all the stakeholders horizontally. Under this structure, governance is conducted by the network members with no separate and unique governance entity.

• 과학기술학연구
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.65-98
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• 2016

최근 국내에서도 사회 주체(주민, 사용자 등) 주도형 혁신모델이자 지역 현장 기반형 혁신의 장으로서 리빙랩이 도입 적용되고 있다. 본 연구는 지역사회문제 해결을 위한 실험으로 '리빙랩'을 명시하고 추진된 북촌 리빙랩, 성대골 리빙랩, 건너유 프로젝트 3개 사례를 분석하였다. 각 사례의 지역문제, 문제해결 목표, 참여주체 및 주체별 역할, 리빙랩 추진체계, 의의를 분석하고 리빙랩의 유형 특성을 도출했으며, 향후 발전 방안을 모색하였다. 분석 결과 각 사례는 기술 활용 방식과 사용되는 기술의 특성은 차이가 있으나 과학기술 ICT와 지역문제 해결을 연계하고자 했으며 지역주민이 문제 발굴부터 기술 실험 및 확산 적용까지 리빙랩 전반에서 주도적인 역할을 수행하였다. 또한 공통적으로 중간지원조직의 역할이 리빙랩 운영에 중요한 요인으로 작용하였다. 각 사례는 서로 다른 리빙랩 유형을 보이고 있는데, 북촌 IoT 리빙랩은 정부/지자체가 리빙랩 활동기반 조성 또는 행위자 활동을 지원하고 프로젝트 형태로 운영된 반면, 성대골 에너지전환 리빙랩과 건너유 프로젝트는 시민사회 스스로 지역문제를 해결하기 위해 문제를 정의하고 기술을 탐색하는 형태로 진행되었다.