• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.57-81
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• 2013

The purpose of this paper is to seek ways to improve the competitiveness of Korea's fashion industry by utilizing the source of competitiveness of Japan's fashion industry, which represents the world's leading countries in terms of fashion, so that Korea can better enter the global fashion market. The study shall first compare the competitiveness of the Japanese and Korean fashion industries by utilizing the generalized double diamond model; second, provide an understanding of what the Japanese fashion industry can offer to Korean fashion industry and companies - that is, understand what the Japanese fashion industry's competitive edge is; and third, study the kind of global competitiveness that Korea's fashion industry must achieve. To adopt a generalized double diamond model to compare the competitiveness of the Korean and Japanese fashion industries, we selected 31 sub-variables to act as determinants of the model. That is, we extracted 31sub-variables by doing research of literature to analyze national competitiveness of the fashion industries. To measure these 31 sub-variables, secondary data was gathered. We collected data related to each sub-variable from various sources of Korea and Japan. And to calculate the competitiveness index, we took three steps with reference to previous studies. We found that status of the fashion industry of the two countries as it stands. That is, Japan is an advanced country of which fashion industry is domestic market-oriented while Korea is a small open economy that mainly focuses on the foreign market. Out of 31 proxy variables, Korea's fashion industry shows higher measurements relating to production and export than Japan, but Japan's fashion industry reports higher measurements than Korea in the fields of R&D, design and brand power, the rate of value added, the efficiency of companies and globalization. In order for Korea's fashion industry to achieve competitiveness in the global market, it should pursue the following development direction. First, it is very difficult for Korea to follow the footsteps of the U.S. and Japanese fashion industries that are able to take advantage of economies of scale, because Korea is smaller than those countries. Therefore, in the case of small economies such as Singapore, strengthening of international activities will practically improve domestic determinants that Korea should improve its domestic diamond by enhancing the current competitiveness of its international diamond. In other words, Korea needs to further endeavor to develop and expand global resources and markets as well as improve its competitiveness in terms of R&D, design and brand power, the rate of value-added, and the efficiency of companies. As the Korean fashion industry shows relatively advanced level of information technology and the fashion education system, it has considerable potential to grow. Korea is expected to have a huge growth potential since it has relatively higher level of information technology, fashion education system and activities than those of Japan in both the domestic diamond and international diamond. In particular, a better environment is laid out before Korea to gain competitiveness in the fashion industry due to the recently growing influence of the Korean Wave that Korea is expected to grow as a leader in the Asian market as well as in the global market.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.19-30
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• 2011

This study analysis effects of creativity character on the nation's urban areas and the competitiveness of the urban. The result is that talent of urban creativity effects on the competitiveness of the urban. However, technique and tolerance had not great effect on the competitiveness between cities. After departmentalizing the arrangement of urban creativity, Advanced services constantly appear to affect the competitiveness. Researchers of talent in 2000 and 2005, a culture artistes of tolerance in 2005 and 2009, appeared to affect the competitiveness of urban. In other words, this is changing that the indicators which is impacted on the competitiveness of the urban and each indicator's power with time. According to the result, the study suggests solutions. First, policy direction has to be setting by appropriate the character creativity in urban. Second, there needs the policy which is more focused on talent and tolerance for improving the creativity of urban. For the specific, there needs suggestion about cultural artist and researchers. Finally, considering about changing the urban creativity with time, policy direction has too be setting by reflecting this change.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권12호
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• pp.1868-1875
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 항공 ICT분야에서 최근 이슈가 되고 있는 UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)에 대한 효율적인 연구 개발 전략 수립을 위하여 특허분석을 기반으로 기술의 메가트렌드 및 경쟁력 분석 결과를 제시한다. UAV 핵심 기술의 메가트렌드 분석을 위해 한국, 미국, 일본 및 유럽의 공개/등록 특허를 중심으로 특허 동향을 분석하였다. 분석 대상 기술은 UAV와 ICT기술이 융합이 되는 기술을 중심으로 3개의 소분류로 구분하였으며, 특허검색 결과 총 3,433건이 검색되었다. UAV 핵심 기술별 경쟁력 및 한국의 경쟁력을 분석하기 위하여 특허 활동력, 특허 피인용률 및 주요 시장 확보율을 분석 지표로 사용하였다. 각 핵심 기술에 대한 R&D 전략 영역을 제시하고 이를 기반으로 각 영역별 연구개발 전략을 제시하였다. 본 논문을 통해 우리나라의 기술 수준, 선진 기업의 연구 개발동향 및 핵심특허 현황 등을 객관적인 특허정보를 기반으로 분석하였으며, 향후 UAV 분야의 연구개발 및 특허 확보 전략 수립에 활용이 될 것으로 기대 한다.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.89-104
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• 2006

Though weight manufacturing has in national gross production is decreasing, it has still a decisive role in economic growth of Korea, and foreign competitiveness of manufacturing has a great influence on our whole economy. Therefore, as this study speculates export competitiveness of manufacturing item by item, the results can be used for selection of strategic export-oriented products. The results of the analysis are summarized as follows: first, products that are found as competitive through analysis of trade specialization indexes are plastic, rubber, fabric, home electronic appliances, computers, communication equipment, automobiles and their spare parts. Second, electronic-electric industry such as semi-conduits, communication equipment, home electronics, computers was decided as advantageous through analysis of comparative advantages at present, while paper, print and publishing, and leather industries were classified as comparatively disadvantageous. Its political implications are presented as follows: Private corporations should develop more advanced technology and government should give more support to secure export competitiveness of manufacturing toward America. Governmental policies should be prepared to induce consistent and daring investment to technology-intensive products for export products with high-added value.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.1-25
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• 2001

Manufacturing firms face a paradigm shift from industrial systems driven by efficiency to post-industrial systems where success depends on a quick-response to customer demands for a variety of high-quality products. In essence, time is becoming a critical dimension for competition. New information technologies allow many firms to pursue time-based competitive strategies. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship among the types of information technology, behaviors of suppliers, the structures of new product development processes, and the competitiveness of the firms. The data for this study were collected from 96 Korean manufacturing firms that have implemented certain types of information technologies. Research results from LISREL analysis confirm that the competitiveness comes from product innovation capabilities and innovative product development process. But the linkage between the information technologies and the firms' competitiveness proves to be indirect. Suppliers, organizational culture related to IT, and some other factors also have indirect impact on the competitiveness. A summarized report of other findings is provided as well.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제18권35호
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• pp.95-106
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• 1995

This study is aimed at development a plan to strengthen the competitiveness in technology of small and medium manufacturing enterprises, which can be assumed mainly by small and medium manufacturing companies, to improve the competitiveness of domestic industry. To remove these obstacles and strengthen the technological competitiveness, internally it is required to change the attitude of management about the development and innovation of technology first. Promotion of favorable atmosphere for the technological development and organized activity to acquire technological information are additional requirements. In conclusion, to survive the competition and to secure national industrial competitiveness, each individual company needs to endeavor for technological innovation and improvement in product quality and productivity.

• International Journal of Quality Innovation
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.24-45
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• 2006

In recent years, the labor consciousness is gradually valued. During the process of pursuing sustainable operation, the enterprises treat occupational hazard risk as the waste of cost. The purpose of OHSAS 18000 occupational security and health management system is to systematically establish the business managerial measures in terms of occupational security and calamity prevention. This research proceeded with questionnaire analysis with respect to the relationship between the OHSAS 18000 system implementation and competitiveness in Taiwan's industries. The research result revealed that there was significant relationship between Taiwan firms' execution of OHSAS 18000 system and industry competitiveness. Thus, the enterprises can decide the proper managerial plans according to the result of their own risk evaluation to prevent the happening of accidents and reduce the operational cost. They can thus completely control business occupational hazard risk through "systematic" management.

• 산업공학
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.444-451
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• 2002

Recently, the interest in technology valuation is revived and increasing mainly due to the lack of suitability of the traditional valuation methods in explaining the market reaction to newly-emerging knowledge-oriented companies. Moreover, many firms are now gearing their efforts to the strategic use of technology asset such as technology licensing, transfer and commercialization. Firms are also trying to enhance their technological competitiveness by re-evaluating their technology level and thus identifying the strengths/weaknesses of their technology portfolio. To accomplish this objective, the development of an integrated evaluation system for technology assets is essential. This paper presents a technology valuation system developed for a steel manufacturing company in South Korea. The valuation framework is based on; (1) the multi-attribute evaluation of technological competitiveness using Analytic Hierarchical Process and; (2) the expected future benefit of the technology using four different methods of discounted cash flow estimation. The suggested framework will be easily applicable to various industries where technological competitiveness should be evaluated systematically.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.127-141
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• 2011

This paper provides a method to evaluate the competitiveness based on IT innovativeness considering the adoption phase and shows how to apply the method with a case of foreign market in the early-adoptive phase. The proposed method considers a variety of corporate and market characteristics concerned with the technology adoption, and it consists of several internal and external impacting factors that can influence the level of IT diffusion. Main advantage of this method is the ease of its applicability that allows evaluating the innovativeness, regardless of corporate size, industry type, or level of technology adoption. Therefore, it is possible for this method to evaluate the technology competitiveness easily and repeatedly, in terms of IT innovativeness by inter-organizations and inter-nations. For the case analysis, the Mongolian IT market with several Korean IT joint firms is introduced, and final data resulted from an early-adoptive phase case are analyzed.

• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.805-836
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• 2017

중국은 2001년 WTO 가입 등을 계기로 경제 성장을 거듭하여 과학기술 분야를 포함한 거의 모든 분야에서 G2 국가로 위상이 높아졌다. 이는 중국 정부의 일관성 있는 과학기술 중시정책과 함께 과학기술과 경제를 연계시킨 것이 주요 요인이다. 한편, 이러한 중국의 급부상 이유를 분석하는 데 있어 과학기술 경쟁력을 국가 단위의 총량적 통계량을 통해 분석해 온 것이 일반적이다. 하지만 광대한 중국의 경우 동부, 중부 및 서부 등 지역간의 발전 양상이 상이하고 각 지방은 경제적 지방분권이 확립되어 있어 지역마다의 산업화 및 과학기술 경쟁력의 차이가 존재한다. 따라서 중국의 경제성장의 주요 요인을 지역단위로 분석해 보는 것이 보다 의미가 있다 하겠다. 본 연구에서는 중국 31개 지역을 대상으로 124개의 다양한 지표를 통하여 중국의 지역 R&D 경쟁력을 분석하였다. 분석 방법으로는 기초적인 통계 분석과 부분최소제곱 회귀분석(Partial Least Squares Regression Analysis)을 통하여 각 지역의 경제성장 주요 지표인 지역내총생산과 첨단기술제품 수출액의 경쟁력 제고요인을 분석하였다. 결론적으로 중국 지역의 규모 및 사회 인프라와 기업의 R&D 능력이 지역내총생산에 영향을 미치는 가장 주요한 요인이었으며, 과학기술논문, 특허, 기술이전 및 정부와 기업의 첨단기술 R&D 투자 등이 첨단기술제품 수출액의 핵심적인 요인인 것으로 파악되었다. 본 연구를 통하여 도출된 중국 지역의 산업 및 과학기술 경쟁력 차이를 만드는 요인에 대한 분석결과는 한국이 직면한 정체된 산업 및 과학기술 발전을 위한 정책 수립에 시사점을 제공할 수 있을 것이다.