• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제23권7호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2019

Purpose - This paper empirically investigates the relationship between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) goods imports and economic growth with a focus on the 13 Asia-Pacific economies during 2005-2016. In particular, this paper extends the study by breaking down the data of Asia-Pacific countries into High Income Countries (HICs) and Low Income Countries (LICs) according to the difference of income levels. Design/methodology - Our empirical model employs the standard growth model based on the Barro (1998)-type growth framework. Using static panel-data technique, we estimate the effect of ICT goods imports on economic growth in the 13 Asia-Pacific economies. In addition, we also estimate a difference of the ICT goods imports-economic growth link between HICs and LICs. Findings -The estimation results indicate that ICT goods import has a significant positive effect on economic growth, while ICT goods export has a positive but statistically insignificant effect on it. When we break down the panel data into HICs and LICs in order to gain further insight, ICT goods imports has been effective in spurring growth in only LICs but not in HICs. The other supplementary results show that both domestic investment (GCF) and life expectancy (LE) have a significantly positive impact on economic growth in both HICs and LICs. Originality/value - The main findings of the paper suggest that ICT goods imports has a positive effect on economic growth in only LICs but not in HICs. This result supports the so-called 'leapfrogging' hypothesis through ICT goods imports in the Asia-Pacific countries, in which LICs are gaining more from ICT goods imports than HICs.

• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.507-531
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• 2004

This study examines the underlying properties of compensation structures and empirically test the difference in a various aspects of the compensation structures of Korean technology imports. In particular, this study looks into the trends of technology licensing from abroad in Korea and analyze the patterns of compensation structures in terms of compensation type, contract period and royalty rate by licensor country, group of licensor countries, size of licensee companies and area of licensed technologies. By doing so, this paper investigates how compensation structures in international technology transactions are determined in Korea and draw implications from the process of discussion.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.155-160
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• 2018

본 연구는 미국의 실질실효환율과 단기금리가 중국의 수출과 수입에 미치는 영향을 EGARCH-GED 모형을 이용하여 분석하였다. 미국이 금리의 인상을 추진하고 중국과의 무역 전쟁이 심화되는 시점에서 미국 주요 경제변수의 중국 수출과 수입에 대한 효과를 분석하였다. 분석결과, 첫째 중국의 교역량에는 미국 실질실효환율은 유의한 영향을 미치지 않고 미국 단기금리만이 유의한 양의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 중국 수출의 경우에도 미국 실질 실효환율은 유의한 영향을 미치지 않고 미국 단기금리만이 유의한 양의 영향을 미쳤다. 그러나 중국 수입의 경우에는 수출과는 반대로 미국 단기금리는 유의한 영향을 미치지 않고 미국 실질실효환율은 유의한 양의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 한편 중국 정책금리는 중국 수출에만 유의한 양의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국기술혁신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국기술혁신학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.254-269
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• 2004

• 기술경영경제학회:학술대회논문집
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• 기술경영경제학회 1999년도 제16회 동계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.328-347
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• 1999

The substitution of Electronic Commerce(EC) for the traditional transactions triggers the changes of the industry structures and promotes the cost reductions of the firms in the areas of distributions and other administrative operations associated with purchase via EC. Our study clarifies the changes of the environments attributable to EC which are faced inter-and-externally by firms and try to exhibit the trend of EC market growth through such descriptions. Regardless of the rapid spread of EC, recent studies do not show appropriately its impact on the relevant industries and our domestic economy. Therefore, our study focuses on the forecasting of the impacts of EC on the domestic productions and imports. To this end, we develop an analytic framework using the existing data in Input/Output Analysis and the estimations of the EC market growth in the future. We, finally, identify the industrial sectors whose productions and imports are estimated to be accelerated by the extension of EC and forecast the whole effects of EC on domestic productions and imports.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.75-106
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• 2015

The primary goal of this paper is to explore the microeconomic foundation of Korean firms' adoption of foreign technologies. The paper also reviews the overall trend of international technology transfers to Korea. The period covered in this paper is Korea's high growth era, from the 1960s to the 1990s. The works of this paper center on the two questions of what characterizes foreign technologies which had been imported through licensing contracts, and which driving forces expedite technology adoption by firms. The Korean experience provides the context of success in the catch-up growth. The co-movement of technology imports with capital goods imports manifests Korea's effort to improve the technical efficiency toward the world frontier. Underlying this trend are firms' decisions to adopt new technologies. The paper shows that firms respond proactively to wage increases by adopting newer technologies and thus, in turn, increasing employment, which implies the existence of a virtuous interactive mechanism among these factors.

• 한국기계연구소 소보
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• 통권12호
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• pp.73-82
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• 1984

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.181-184
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• 2017

우리나라는 세계 10대 에너지 소비국으로서 총에너지의 97%를 해외 수입에 의존하며 2007년 에너지 수입액은 950억불로 전체 수입액의 26.6%를 차지함으로써 2008년과 같은 에너지 위기에 대하여 근본적이며 장기적인 대책 수립이 절실히 요구되고 있는 실정이다. 전 세계적으로 에너지 절감과 저탄소 경제 시대 대응을 위해 세계 각국이 발빠르게 움직이고 있음에도 불구하고 국내의 움직임은 상대적으로 더디게 진행되고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 병원 시설물을 가정 하에 중대형 시설물에 구축된 Light Things(조명, 사이니지, 디스플레이 등) 제어를 위한 IoT 데이터 수집장치(Gateway)를 개발함으로써, Light Things로 인해 소비되는 에너지 소비율을 효과적으로 제어할 수 있는 Light Things 제어 알고리즘 및 데이터 수집장치(Gateway) 개발 기술에 대하여 제안한다.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.55-88
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• 2019

Our paper contributes to existing literature by empirically investigate the trade structure and trade performance between Korea and ASEAN. Overall, trade activities between Korea and almost major ASEAN economies have significantly focused on capital goods, medium and high technology goods, while the remaining ASEAN countries' exports over Korea have been mainly primary and low technology goods. There has been a higher complementarity in between Korea's exports and ASEAN's imports compared with between ASEAN's exports and Korea's imports. Estimation results show that ASEAN's GDP and income have larger impacts than those of Korea on aggregate trade flows as well as sectoral level between two sides. Additionally, geographical conditions are critical factors impeding Korea-ASEAN trade. Meanwhile, other factors in the estimation model have mixed impacts on components of Korea-ASEAN trade structure. Finally, there is a significant room for Korea's trade expansion with ASEAN, particularly new and less developed members in future.

• 무역학회지
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.241-251
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• 2022

As a 4th industrial revolution technology, robots are changing the form of labor market and trade in Korea. In the future, changes in the international trade order are expected to move in the direction of shortening global supply chains and restricting trade between countries. Accordingly, reshoring of relocating overseas production facilities to Korea or near-shoring of relocating overseas production facilities to neighboring allies may expand. In this context, this study analyzed the impact of robot introduction on the domestic labor market and trade based on firm-level data. As a result of analysis based on the 'business activity data' accumulated from 2017 to 2019, the introduction of robot technology was analyzed to expand low-wage, low-skilled employment. Analysis on trade shows that the introduction of robots decreases exports and increases imports. In order to expand exports through the technology of the 4th industrial revolution, employment expansion and robot introduction should occur at the same time, rather than replacing the labor force with robots. In addition, it is thought that reshoring's goal of risk management can be achieved when a stable supply chain for imports of raw materials or essential goods, which are difficult to transfer to Korea, is established together.