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Cost and Benefits of R&D Tax Concession Program in the Australian Government

  • Moon Yong-Eun;Yoon Joseph
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.135-159
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    • 2004
  • In industrialised countries, innovation is a key source of economic growth. Rrsearch is a key driver of technological innovation and involves the process of systematic investigation and/or experimentation to discover new knowledge. The Governments'industry innovation policy supports a business focus on Research and Development (R&D) through a range of programs in order to achieve these aims. The Innovation Statement (DISR 2000, 20010, launched by the Australian Prime MinisterJanuary 2001, commits an additional ${\$}$3 billion over five years to encourage and support innovation. The Australian Government aims toworld competitive firms and strong research capability in industry to strengthen Australia's international competitiveness and increase national prosperity. It develops policies and programs to enhance investment in innovation. The Australian Government has established a number of R&D funding support programs aimed at increasing the level of R&D in Australia. The backbone of these programs is the tax concession program, which is made up of the 125 per cent R&D tax concession, the 175 per cent premium tax concession and the tax offset. Over 4000 businesses take advantage of the tax concession scheme, which costs the government around ${\$}$400mi11ion a year. This cost is expected to rise to over hall a billion by 2005-06 (commonwealth or Australia, 2003). Ensuring these resources are invested where they provide significant national economic benefits is a major policy issue. In this sense, this paper looks at the appropriateness, effectiveness and efficiency of the R&D tax concession with costs and benefits analysis.

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Innovation Management in the Australian Government: Cost and Benefit of R&D Tax Concession Program

  • Moon, Yong-Eun;Yoon, Joseph
    • 한국디지털정책학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.95-118
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    • 2004
  • In industrialised countries, innovation is a key source of economic growth. Research is a key driver of technological innovation and involves the process of systematic investigation and/or experimentation to discover new knowledge. The Governments' industry innovation policy supports a business focus on Research and Development (R&D) through a range of programs in order to achieve these aims. The Innovation Statement (DISR 2000, 20010, launched by the Australian Prime Minister?in January 2001, commits an additional $3 billion over five years to encourage and support innovation. The Australian Government aims to?build world competitive firms and strong research capability in industry to strengthen Australia's international competitiveness and increase national prosperity.?It develops policies and programs to enhance investment in innovation. The Australian Government has established a number of R&D funding support programs aimed at increasing the level of R&D in Australia. The backbone of these programs is the tax concession program, which is made up of the 125 per cent R&D tax concession, the 175 per cent premium tax concession and the tax offset. Over 4000 businesses take advantage of the tax concession scheme, which costs the government around $400?million a year. This cost is expected to rise to over half a billion by 2005-06 (Commonwealth of Australia, 2003). Ensuring these resources are invested where they provide significant national economic benefits is a major policy issue. In this sense, this paper looks at the appropriateness, effectiveness and efficiency of the R&D tax concession with costs and benefits analysis.

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The Next Generation Photovoltaic Technology for Cost-Effective and High Efficiency (태양에너지를 이용한 차세대 저가·고효율 태양전지 기술)

  • Jeong, Chaehwan
    • Vacuum Magazine
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.4-10
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    • 2016
  • Photovoltaic technology has been intensively developed as one of the most powerful renewable energies, replacing a fossil fuel such as coal and petroleum. Every country in the world has emphasized on development of photovoltaic technology and our government has invested heavily in low cost and high efficiency. Korea institute of industrial technology (KITECH) has lastingly constructed PV R&D infra for development of cost-effective and high efficiency solar cells as well as support of commercialization in PV's small and medium enterprises. In this paper, we introduce the next generation PV R&D and infra in KITECH.

Priority of the Government Policy to support Industrial Security - Focus on a companies' demand and efficiency of policy - (산업보안 지원 정책 결정의 우선 순위 - 기업 수요와 효율성을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Chang-Ho;Yu, Jai-Hwan
    • Korean Security Journal
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    • no.42
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    • pp.155-178
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    • 2015
  • This study surveyed the subject of companies' industrial security on priorities of the government policy for the confidentiality of corporate and the necessity of expanding the government support for the industrial security. In determining the priority, we should consider all opinions of companies, individuals, societies, and governments that associated with the confidentiality. Especially in industrial security, companies are the most significant beneficiaries and consumers of security policy and it would be the basis for supporting on policy-making. As a result, we analyzed the 50 valid questionnaires collected from security personnel of Korean corporations and 'Enhance support for education and promotion of human resource (On/Off-Line)', 'Establish Security management and Security measures', and 'Enhance Security professionals status via qualifications/certifications' are shown as 1st, 2nd, 3rd priority of government policy to protect Corporate confidential information including its customer information. All respondents of the study says that the Government support for Industrial Security should be enlarged.

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Zombie Firms and Performance of R&D Support Programs for Small and Medium Enterprises (한계기업과 중소기업 R&D 지원 성과)

  • Kam, Ju-sik;Jung, Taehyun
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.1474-1492
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    • 2018
  • This study empirically analyzes the direct effects of government support for SMEs (project success) and indirect effects (sales growth) focusing on the differences between financially difficult firms (so-called 'zombie' firms) and 'normal' firms. If the zombie firm has a problem in technology development (success of the project) and the economic resilience capability (sales growth), then excluding them from the government's R&D support programs would enhance the overall efficiency of the programs. If not, government R&D could complement the market failure and play a positive role in revitalizing marginal firms. In this study, we collected data about 7,575 firms who participated in seven government R&D programs in 2013 and 2014. As a result of the logistic regression analysis, we did not find evidence that the likelihood of success for zombie firms was lower than that for the normal firms. However, the tendency of sales growth after the project was smaller for the zombie firms than for the normal firms. For zombie firms, we also found that firms that succeeded in the project were more likely to increase sales than those that failed.

Improving Public Medical and Social Services Market Management: Application of Information Technologies

  • Barzylovych, Anastasiia;Malinina, Olena;Gnyloskurenko, Ganna;Borysiuk, Iryna;Yuriy, Rayisa
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.257-266
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    • 2021
  • This article examines the features of improving the public management of the market of medical and social services using information technology to improve the efficiency of public activity in modern conditions. The interpretation of the essence of the categories "information technologies" and "information support" is analyzed. The importance of the organization of information support of public authorities in the insurance of the state apparatus of information management for the adoption and solution of state issues of the market of medical and social services has been studied. Issues and system of information support of public management of the market of medical and social services are considered. The stages of the ICT implementation process in the market of medical and social services are described. The tools of state regulation in the market of medical and social services and the introduction of targeted programs for the development of the social sphere and health care are highlighted. Recommendations for improvement are formulated public management of the market of medical services and social way introduction of ICT tools, which provide for the implementation of a set of measures aimed at intellectualizing the entire system public data management spheres. The necessity of development of innovative tools of public management of the market of medical and social services of Ukraine for the purpose of working out of strategies of increase of quality of medical and social services in the XXI century is substantiated. A number of benefits from the implementation of an effective process of application of information support of public management of the market of medical and social services to ensure the efficiency of public authorities of Ukraine. It is proposed to create a "Department of information support of self-government" and electronic health care system (e-Health) to improve the management decision-making process, which will provide an opportunity to accumulate, process, analyze, and as a result, get the expected effect in the form of balanced management decisions by public authorities of Ukraine.

Evaluation of Removal Efficiency in Emission Pollutants by Air Pollution Prevention Facilities from Meat Grilled Restaurants - Focus on the Electrostatic Precipitator - (직화구이 음식점 방지시설의 오염물질 저감 효과 평가 - 전기집진방식을 중심으로 -)

  • Seo, Jang-Won;Kim, Young-Il;Lee, Hee-Sun;Kim, Ji-Hun;Kim, Young-Doo;Shin, Jin-Ho
    • Particle and aerosol research
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.115-123
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    • 2021
  • The emission gas from meat grilled restaurants has unpleasant odor and sticky particulate matters (PM) in form of oil mist. This affects the residents living nearby. In oder to decrease the odor and PM, electrostatic precipitators (ESP) were installed at several restaurants by support of Seoul metropolitan government and emission characteristics of PM and odor were investigated. The removal efficiency of odor and PM at before- and after-ESP was that total hydrocarbon (THC), NH3, H2S, acetaldehyde, butyraldehyde were not much decreased. Total suspended particles (TSP) emitted from the vent was below the value of 7 mg/m3 regardless of the concentration of before-ESP and removal efficiency was in the range of 64 ~ 86%. The ratio of PM1.0 to PM10 of emission gas was over 0.9. So it was revealed that most PM of emission gas was PM1.0. The PM concentration in the air of the street near the vent was higher than another street due to the emission gas and the PM of indoor air of restaurant grilling meats was measured very high compared to outdoor air. So it needs more powerful ventilation of indoor air.

Determinants of Software-as-a-Service Adoption Intention Among Small and Medium-sized Korean Firms (중소기업의 Software-as-a-Service 도입의도 결정요인 연구)

  • Kim, Sung-Hyun;Jang, Si-Young
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.11-30
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    • 2013
  • Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) constitute an important part of current industrial economies. Information technologies can be useful strategic weapons for SMEs by enhancing their competitiveness. Categorized as one kind of cloud computing, SaaS is a computing resource and software sharing model which can be accessed via the Internet. Based on virtualization technology, SaaS is expected to improve the efficiency and quality of the IT service level in SMEs. This study attempts to identify the determinants of SaaS adoption intention among Korean SMEs. Through the lens of the theory of planned behavior, this study adopts technological, organizational, environmental factors to explore the determinants of cloud computing adoption intention. The research population is the SMEs that have been funded by the Korean government. Partial least square method was used for empirical analysis of 190 samples collected through on-line survey. The results show that the positive attitude is influenced by business process improvements. Vender support and top management support are positively associated with subjective norm. Vendor support, top management support can relieve perceived behavior control factors. Government support directly influences adoption intention of cloud computing. These findings can provide useful strategy for both SMEs and vendors of SaaS.

Efficiency and Effectiveness of Government R&D Projects for SMEs (중소기업 R&D지원사업의 효율성과 효과성 분석)

  • Bae, Young Im
    • Journal of Technology Innovation
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.77-104
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    • 2014
  • Government R&D support for SMEs is very important and the R&D budget is also increasing. This study suggests a new method for analyzing a performance of R&D programs and analyzes the performance of R&D programs funded by small & medium business administration using the method. We discuss new measures "efficiency" that means short-term performance and "effectiveness" that means long-term performance. Weights based on the R&D programs' characteristics among the various sub-indicators of two measures were derived, and then the final scores were calculated by combining the weights with the responses on the indicators. Finally, this study tests the mean differences between R&D programs statistically. As a results, efficiency of R&D programs shows a significant difference between the R&D programs, while effectiveness does not. Most of the efficiency scores are low, whereas the effectiveness scores are high. The results explain that the R&D programs are managed inefficiently. However, most SMEs predict a positive impact of government R&D supports on effectiveness in the long term. Government needs to try to improve the efficiency of R&D supports because SMEs cannot expect sustainable performance with no improvement in efficiency.

A Study on Efficiency of Community Problem-solving Type R&D and Influencing Factors (지역사회 문제해결형 R&D 효율성 및 영향요인에 관한 연구)

  • Min, Hyun-Ku
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.161-175
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    • 2021
  • This study analyzed the efficiency and influence factors according to the main research institute type of R&D Program for the local community problem-solving. This study applied data envelopment analysis (DEA) method and Tobit regression analysis by using 20 institutions that participated in R&D Program. The results are summarized as follows. First, Analysis results according to the research institute type of R&D project, Efficient DMUs showed more regional innovation institutions than social economy enterprises. But regional innovation institutions were the lowest in the CCR and BCC model. However, efficiency dose not differ between regional innovation institutions and social economy enterprises. Second, as a result of the analysis relation between efficiency and allocation characteristics of R&D input, the participation of regional innovation organizations as participating organizations has a negative effect on efficiency. It was found that the higher the proportion of government subsidies and the higher the employment rate of the vulnerable, which is a social achievement, the positive effect on efficiency. The implication of this study is that the participation of social economy enterprises as the main R&D institution and government R&D support can provide social economy enterprises with opportunities to accumulate R&D capabilities and experience successful commercialization.