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정부의 기업연구개발지원의 부가성 효과에 관한 정성적 연구 (A Qualitative Study on the Additionality Effects of Public Subsidies)

  • 김호;김병근
    • 기술혁신연구
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    • 제22권4호
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    • pp.199-233
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    • 2014
  • 본 연구의 주요한 목적은 기업이 연구개발활동을 위하여 정부지원을 받은 경우에 그렇지 않은 경우와 비교하여 부가성 효과가 나타나는지와 부가성 효과가 나타난다면 왜, 어떻게 나타나는지를 탐색적으로 규명하는 것이다. 이를 위하여 대전지역의 12개 중소 중견기업을 대상으로 다중사례연구를 진행하였다. 분석을 위하여 기업의 연구개발활동 과정에 따라 기업의 R&D 노력에 영향을 주는 다양한 요소와 이들에 따른 R&D 투자와 의사결정 단계, 기업의 R&D 노력을 통한 행동변화단계, 기업의 R&D 노력에 의한 성과와 피드백단계로 구분하여 전반적인 R&D 활동 및 부가성에 대한 사례를 조사하였다. 아울러, 기업의 유형과 기업의 성장단계에 따른 효과성의 차이를 확인하였다. 실증연구 결과 기업의 연구개발활동에 따른 투입, 행동, 산출부가성이 다양하게 존재하는 것으로 확인되었다. 기업은 창업기의 기업일수록 R&D 활동에서 정부지원사업에 대한 의존성이 매우 높았으며 기업의 주요한 제품개발과 신규사업으로의 전환을 위한 연구개발을 위하여 정부지원사업을 전략적으로 활용하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 기업의 유형과 기업의 성장단계 별로 각 기업이 정부지원사업으로 추진하는 사업의 성격과 정부지원사업을 활용하는 태도가 다르게 나타났다.

산업클러스터 내 사회적 자본이 기업성과에 미치는 영향: 조직학습의 역할을 중심으로 (The effect of social capital on firm performance within industrial clusters: Mediating role of organizational learning of clustering SMEs)

  • 김신우;서리빈;윤현덕
    • 지식경영연구
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    • 제17권3호
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    • pp.65-91
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    • 2016
  • Although the success of industrial clusters largely depends on whether clustering firms can achieve economic performance, there has been less attention on investigating factors and conditions contributing to the performance enhancement for clustering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Along this vein, we adopt the theories of social capital and organizational learning as those success factors for clustering SMEs. This study thus aims at examining what effect social capital accrued in the relationships among actors within clusters has on firm performance of clustering SMEs and what role organizational learning plays in the linkage between social capital and firm performance. For the empirical analysis, we operationalized the variables and their measures to develop questionnaires through the theoretical reviews on literatures. As a sample of 227 clustering SMEs, our collected data was analyzed by hierarchical regression analysis. The results confirmed that a high level of social capital, represented by network, trust, and norm, has positive effect on firm performance of clustering SMEs. We also found that clustering firms presenting high organizational learning, represented by absorptive and transformative capability, achieve better performance than those placing less value on organizational learning. Furthermore the significant relationship between social capital and firm performance is mediated partially through organizational learning. These findings imply not only that the territorial agglomeration of industrial cluster does not guarantee the performance creation of clustering SMEs but that they need to develop social capital among various actors within clusters, facilitating their knowledge diffusion. In order to absorb and mobilize the shared knowledge and information into strategic resources, the firms should improve their capability associated with organizational learning. These expand our understanding on the importance of social capital and organizational learning for the performance enhancement of clustering firms. Differentiating from major studies addressing benefits and advantages of industrial cluster, this study based on the perspective of firm-internal business process contributes to the literature advancement. Strategic and policy implications of this study are discussed in detail.

기술개발 요인이 혁신성과에 미치는 영향에 대한 기술정책적 과제 (Technology Policy Issues on the Effect of Technology Development Factor on Innovation Performance)

  • 강석민;김태운
    • 한국경제지리학회지
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    • 제18권4호
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    • pp.505-521
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    • 2015
  • 본 연구에서는 대구 성서 3차 산업단지의 중소기업들을 대상으로 기술개발요인이 기업의 혁신성과에 미치는 영향을 기업특성의 측면에서 실증적으로 분석하고, 기술정책 측면에서의 시사점을 제안하였다. 기술개발요인을 인력, 자금 등의 기반적 요인과 외부 협력 등의 활동적 요인으로 구분하여 독립변수로 사용하였다. 연구의 결과에 따르면, 타기업 및 대학/연구기관과의 활동적 요인은 혁신성과에 유의적으로 긍정적인 영향을 미치고 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 이러한 영향은 기업규모가 평균보다 큰 기업군을 연구대상으로 간주하였을 때 나타났다. 또한 평균보다 큰 기업규모를 보유한 기업은 불확실한 경영환경에서 활동적 요인이 기업의 혁신성과를 보다 향상시키는 중요한 역할을 제공하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과에 따라 기술개발정책은 인력, 장비 등 기반적 요인의 확충보다는 기업의 협력활동을 촉진시키는데 보다 초점을 두고 추진할 필요가 있으며, 정책 추진시 기업의 규모 등 특성에 따라 상이한 접근을 고려할 필요가 있다고 할 수 있다.

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중소기업의 전자무역(e-Trade) 활성화 방안에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Facilitation Strategies of e-Trade in the Korean SMEs)

  • 최장우
    • 통상정보연구
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    • 제5권1호
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    • pp.63-83
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    • 2003
  • This paper's objective is to provide insights about the problems and expansion strategies of electronic trade. Korean small and medium-sized firms have adopted the Internet since the end of 1990s in order to reshape their competitiveness, and it is now being utilized as a major export marketing instrument to develop new customers, save export transaction costs ad facilitate new work processes. However, at present, the use of the internet in the field of trading is limited to the collection of market information, owing to legal, technical and institutional restraints between countries. In addition to that, because firms have the difficulties in making the trade contract through the e-trade system, the negative recognition on its' utility has been spreaded gradually between companies. This is one of the barriers to block the expansion of e-Trade between Korean firms. Therefore, this paper points out the problems of e-trade in the environmental, institutional and strategic view and provides many considerations for establishing the expansion strategy of e-trade by the Korean government and trade supporting institutions.

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섬유업체 근로여성의 작업복 실태 및 선호연구 (Female Workers' Uniform Preference of the Fiber Firms)

  • 이옥희
    • 대한가정학회지
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    • 제35권4호
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    • pp.185-198
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    • 1997
  • This study was initiated to research on the uniform preference uniform satisfaction and wearing of female workers' uniform of the fiber firms. Data was obtained from 361 female workers of the fiber firms in Chon Buk. And it was analyzed by frequency percent mean duncan's multiple test. The results of this study were as follows; 1) Pocket sleeve and front hem were parts of the damage. The weaving workers were mostly wore upper and under garments but most of there workers were only wore an upper garment on the basic type of uniform The older and married were small in the fitness of uniform the armhole sleeve girth sleeve length and breast girth were unfitted 2) Workers was dissatisfied to the noise and the dust in working environment. Uniform satisfaction of workers were mostly low design color and fabric were the lowest factors of uniform satisfaction. The satisfaction of material were also low the lowest factors were absorptiveness elasticity breathability. Workers wanted the fashion and light colored uniform but they prefered function activity to work and manageability on wearing rather than externals among the uniform preference.

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연구개발성과의 산업화를 위한 네트워크 활성화 방안: 대덕연구단지의 기술집약적 벤처기업을 중심으로 (Promoting Networks of Commercializing R&D: A Case Study on Technology-intensive Firms of Daeduck Research Complex, Korea)

  • 신동호
    • 한국기술혁신학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국기술혁신학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회
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    • pp.313-335
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    • 2003
  • It has been thirty years since Daedeuk Science Park was established in Daejeon, Korea. The Park has grown to be a national center for scientific activities, hosting more thirty research institutes at major scale with 12,000 scientists. As a main purpose of establishing the science park was to promote sciences as basic research, there have not been much economic impacts created from the science park. There have also been very little networks established among research and educational institutes within the science park and the city of Daejeon in general. After the economic crisis in 1997, however, there have been increasing changes around the Park. Since then more than 400 technology-intensive firms were newly created, mainly from the research institutes, or introduced to the Park area. This paper analyzes R&D networks of these small firms, especially with research institutes and universities, based on a questionnaire survey. The paper has argued: 1) to establish technology transfer centers, 2) to emphasize research related to commercialization, 3) to intensify advertizement of research outputs to the potential entrepreneurs, 4) to assist entrepreneural associations of concerned companies.

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RESPONDING TO GLOBAL ISSUES: SUSTAINABILITY AND INNOVATION IN THE AUSTRALIAN SME RESIDENTIAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION SECTOR

  • D.S. Thorpe;N. Ryan
    • 국제학술발표논문집
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    • The 2th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • pp.684-693
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    • 2007
  • The construction industry is a significant component of many economies and typically contains a high proportion of small and medium enterprises. However, it is generally understood that this industry is fragmented, adversarial, not highly innovative and not quick to respond to change. At the same time, the industry is under pressure to continue to embrace new technologies and methods, and to adapt better to current and emerging global issues such as sustainability. In order to meet these challenges, firms in the industry need to understand the issues involved and manage their practices accordingly. This paper describes exploratory research into the role of innovative and environmentally sustainable design and construction practices in one group of construction firms, viz., smaller residential building firms in Queensland, Australia.

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Investigating the Impact of IT Security Investments on Competitor's Market Value: Evidence from Korea Stock Market

  • Young Jin Kwon;Sang-Yong Tom Lee
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제30권2호
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    • pp.328-352
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    • 2020
  • If a firm announces an investment in IT security, how the market value of its competitors reacts to the announcement? We try to shed light on this question through an event study design. To test the relationship, we collected 143 announcements on cybersecurity investment and measured the subsequent impact on 533 competitors' abnormal returns, spanning from 2000 to 2019. Our estimation results present that, on average, the announcements have no observable impact on the market value of announcing firms and competitors as well, which is consistent with findings of a prior study. Interestingly, however, the impact becomes evident when we classify our samples by industries (Finance vs. non-Finance or ICT vs. non-ICT) and firm size (Big vs. Small). We interpret our empirical findings through the lenses of contagion effect and competition effect between announcing firms and their competitors. Key finding of our study is that, for financial service firms, the effect resulting from the announcement on cybersecurity investment transfers to competitors in the same direction (i.e., contagion effect).