• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.238-273
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• 2019

Social enterprises pursue innovation to create socio-economic impact for the marginalized communities. The founders of social enterprises drive goal-oriented innovation, whereas, interactions with ecosystem is crucial to create and diffuse innovation. However, studies are scant on creation as well as diffusion of innovation emerging from social enterprises. This paper attempts to understand innovation emerging from social enterprises through an exploration of innovation focus, interactions with ecosystem, and measurement of innovation performance. A cross-sectional study is performed to understand the relationship between founders' orientation and innovation performance, and the mediating role of innovation focus and ecosystem interactions. A cluster sampling across four states in India - Karnataka, Telangana, Maharastra and Tamil Nadu - resulted in participation from 207 social enterprises. The results of partial least squared structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) demonstrate the positive complementary mediating role of innovation focus in the relationship between founders' orientation and innovation performance. Moreover, this paper illustrates that founders' persistent focus on innovation creates positive results for social enterprises as well as beneficiaries.

• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.888-914
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• 2017

이 연구의 목적은 단편적으로 이루어졌던 사회혁신 연구를 메타적으로 접근해 사회혁신의 이론지형을 통합적으로 설명하는 것에 있다. 이를 위해 사회혁신의 개념과 영역에 초점을 맞춘 유형화를 시도하여 이를 사회혁신체제의 관점에서 재해석해 사회혁신 및 관련정책에 있어 새로운 시사점을 제공하고자 한다. 분석에 따르면, 사회혁신은 삶의 질 향상, 지속가능한 사회로의 변환을 위한 공통의 목표를 중심으로 공공혁신, 시장혁신, 사회적 경제혁신으로 세분화되어 전체 구조를 형성하고 있다. 이러한 분석을 기반으로 하여 사회혁신 생태계의 활성화를 위해 사회혁신 영역별 행위자 특성과 역할에 따라 사회혁신 거버넌스를 운영할 필요가 있으며 네트워크 촉진자로서 정부역할의 변화가 요구된다는 시사점을 도출하였다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.101-112
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• 2017

본 연구는 혁신확산이론과 혁신저항모델을 적용하여 소셜TV 혁신저항과 이용의도에 영향을 미치는 요인을 탐색하였다. 주요 결과를 중심으로 살펴보면, 첫째, 소셜TV 비이용자의 지각된 혁신특성 중 적합성과 복잡성은 혁신저항에 통계적으로 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 소셜TV 비이용자의 인지된 위험은 혁신저항에 통계적으로 유의한 정적 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 소셜TV 비이용자의 지각된 혁신특성 중 적합성과 복잡성은 이용의도에 통계적으로 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 소셜TV 비이용자의 인지된 위험은 소셜TV 이용의도에 통계적으로 유의한 영향을 미치지 못한 것으로 나타났다.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2016

Technology supply has been the main thrust of the Korean government's science & technology policy, focusing on the development and acquisition of new technology in line with the catching-up strategy of economic growth and industrial development. However, new social or societal problems have become major government policy issues, heralding new innovation policy aimed to address them. Such new policy initiatives for social problem-solving present a niche where the existing system of government innovation policy process is challenged, including such processes as goal-setting, planning, implementation, project management, and evaluation. The rigidity of the existing institution of government innovation policy, however, still shapes the content and progression of innovation policy for social problem-solving. This study reviews Korean innovation policy for social problem-solving as a policy niche, and aims to clarify its challenges and opportunities. It uses a system transition framework to explain the emergence and evolution of the innovation policy niche in Korea. The main research question is to what extent and in what aspect the existing innovation policy regime shaped innovation policy for social problem-solving. The study examines the inertia of the current paradigm of innovation policies and R&D programs, and sheds light on the search for a distinctive identity for innovation policies that tackles social problems.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.103-122
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• 2007

This paper examines the social development process of technological innovation for national emergency management. There are relatively few studies on how technological innovations are developed and deployed within social context. This paper investigates innovation processes within social contexts and the role of innovation actors such as citizens, government, and private sector. The the Real-time Disaster Management System (RDMS) is an innovation for citizens to transmit digital images and video clips on disaster toward professional organizations to respond to disasters. This case shows how an innovation in disaster management was developed by social interactions, how open innovation mechanism was deployed, and how end-users involved in innovation processes for disaster management. Finally this paper suggests implications to accelerate innovations for social welfare and social change.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.77-91
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• 2022

Social innovation refers to activities that solve social problems by developing new ideas in cooperation with actors close to the field for the purpose of preserving the sustainability of society. In the field of social innovation, voices calling for a bottom-up method that starts with citizen participation are growing, and the need to improve public officials' awareness of social innovation and strengthen professionalism is being raised. In the era of Covid 19 and the 4th industrial revolution, digital literacy is being emphasized to us. In the field of social innovation, the need to strengthen social activities using digital media is growing. In this paper, an example of online social innovation project education based on the design thinking methodology was presented for public officials in Busan to improve their awareness of social innovation and secure expertise, and the effect of job competency reinforcement was statistically verified. As a result of statistical analysis, the average difference between the 'online communication' factor and the 'online empathy' factor was the largest, and it can be interpreted that digital literacy for social innovation has been strengthened.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.37-46
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• 2021

Purpose: This study aims at investigating how high-tech SMEs can enhance innovation performance through the application and distribution of social media strategic capability and whether entrepreneurial orientation moderates the relationship between social media strategic capability and innovation. Research design, data, and methodology: The study followed a deductive approach based on the quantitative design in investigating the proposed relationships. The data was collected using a questionnaire, and the proposed relationships were examined based on a sample of 221 high-tech SMEs through the application of structural equation modeling (SEM). By applying SEM, this study accounted for hidden and unobservable factors as well as reconciled the potential measurement errors. Results: As hypothesized, it was confirmed that social media strategic capability positively influences innovation performance. Besides, the findings supported the moderating effect of three dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation (innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking) toward the relationship between social media strategic capability and innovation performance. Conclusions: According to the results, high-tech SMEs can enhance their innovation performance through social media by distributing and applying social media strategic capability along with entrepreneurial orientation. This study thereby enriches the literature of innovation on high-tech SMEs for implementing social media strategies as well as stimulating future social media research for entrepreneurship.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.207-221
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• 2014

Due to the awareness for the importance of social capital, many researches have investigated that social capital contributes to the successful implementation of product innovation. Although most researchers tried to model the effect of social capital on product innovation as a linear relation, we consider it too simplistic and fuzzy because knowledge utilization which ultimately leads to product innovation should exist in the relationship between social capital and product innovation. Using 107 survey data, this study found there is a partial mediating effect of knowledge utilization on the link between structure aspect of social capital and product innovation (i.e., new product development and improvement in existing products). Next, this study reported knowledge utilization does act as a perfect mediating variable on the link between awareness aspect of social capital and improvement of existing products, but act as a partial mediating variable on the link between awareness aspect of social capital and new product development. Finally, this study found that knowledge utilization does not act as a mediating variable on the link between relation aspect of social capita and product innovation.

• 농촌계획
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.151-159
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• 2019

The aim of this paper is to identify the characteristics of social economy in social farming practices, and to explore three core factors of experiment, openness and locality, which have a significant impact on the working-mechanism of social innovation. Though a few social farming practice appear nowadays in Korea, it can be witnessed social economic factors such as cooperation between networks and solidarity actors, pursuing social values in social farming. On the basis of the conceptual framework on the social economy characteristics, this study examines case analysis in order to find the possibilities as a social innovation of the social farming. Three farms perform multiple functions of care, labour integration, training in farming area, and sometimes make collaboration work with artists and local residents. Social farming can be social innovation practices in the view of the interaction of experiments, openness and locality within the context of an innovation process, networking, enhancing social capital.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.267-278
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• 2010

The study has following objectives: First, an objective of this studies proves relations between a entrepreneurship and an innovation performance. Second, in innovation performance relationships of social capital this studies proves a mediating effects of a social capitall through theory study, an empirical analysis. In accordance with results of a hypothesis verification, first, a entrepreneurship affects positively a innovation performanc. Second, in accordance with analysis results of a social capital, an entrepreneurship, a innovation performance verified a mediating effects of a social capital. This results mean that the more a social capital an organization has among members, the higher an innovation performance.