• STI Policy Review
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.94-118
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• 2013

Innovation plays a large role in green growth. While it is a widely accepted view that, without innovation, it would be very difficult and costly to address major environmental issues, innovation itself tends to be constrained by limited access to eco-financing and is inherently risky, often requiring a long-term horizon. Although global consensus is more or less established as to the urgency and necessity of accelerating green innovation, the quality and quantity of financing in this area is largely insufficient, with increasing funding gaps in many countries. A new financial mechanism is urgently needed in order to re-orient financial flow and enable innovators to overcome the valleys of death that occur throughout the innovation cycle. A number of different modalities exist in financing the commercialisation of eco-innovation. Existing mechanisms have not been as successful as expected, revealing critical limits to furthering certain types of projects that are essential for economic and environmental progress. Experts' estimations have shown that the funding gap will widen in the coming years as demand for clean energy and green infrastructure rises, and as green technologies and innovation develop faster than the market for it can develop. Against this backdrop, the main purpose of this research is threefold: to identify issues and problems regarding current means of funding for eco-innovation and green projects; to provide insight into securing longterm green financing by looking at European cases; and ultimately to suggest policy implications for designing and implementing eco-specific financial instruments, focusing on governments' roles in sustainable financing for eco-innovation. This study analyses different models of financing mechanisms, a mix of public and private funds, in view of suggesting conditions for the sustainable financing of green projects, especially for large-scale high-risk projects. Based on the findings from the analyses of mechanisms and the shortcomings of the existing funding modalities, this study ultimately suggests policy implications for effectively supporting the commercialisation of eco-innovation.

• World Technopolis Review
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.30-46
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• 2016

This paper is intended as an opening of a dialog on how to apply platform thinking in the development of innovation environments. It will briefly describe a new STP (Science and Technology Park) concept called 3GSP (Third Generation Science Park), which is gaining momentum in Finland. The paper explains the fundamental changes that are currently taking place in the global innovation environment and explains why platform thinking is becoming an essential element in ecosystem development. The theoretical background and classifications of platforms are described and the benefits to be gained from STP perspective are highlighted. The paper emphasizes especially the role of so called 'competence platforms' and explains the main characteristics of a fully working competence platform. The role of competence platforms in understanding serendipity and as a fundamental factor in building the team is also highlighted. The paper analyses from STP perspective several practical examples, where platform thinking supports the emergence of new innovation environments, including Urban Mill (Finland) and Meetberlage (Netherlands). The requirements for comprehensive competence platform services are presented and their potential to support community building and therefore ecosystem development is illustrated. This analysis will provide STP practitioners with new models for applying platform thinking and will help to establish co-creation, open innovation and serendipity management practices. The case studies presented will help STP management teams to evaluate the benefits of competence platforms in different contexts.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.17-39
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• 2016

Despite the importance of university-industry collaboration, issues pertaining to the characteristics of collaborating firms, their modes of interaction, and the relationship between these modes and outcomes are not well-researched. The impact of country's development on these issues is also unclear. This case study examines Japan and Thailand-respectively representing developed and developing countries-and features the following key findings: 1) the characteristics of firms affect modes, with large Japanese firms being more collaborative with universities, whereas Thai SMEs significantly collaborate more with universities; 2) the relationship between modes in Thai firms is stronger than those of Japanese firms because in Thailand, perhaps due to weak technological capacity, R&D collaboration is conducted alongside university consultancy services; and 3) in Japan, R&D and human resource development collaboration lead to product innovation, whereas different outcomes are expected from different modes in Thailand. Apparently, trivial informal collaborations do have significant impact on innovation.

• 서비스연구
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.37-47
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• 2014

최근 20여 년 동안 서비스에 대한 연구는 지속적인 발전을 거듭해 왔다. 그러나 서비스 혁신에 대한 연구접근은 아직까지도 제조업의 제품 품질 개선이라는 전통적 관점을 탈피하지 못한 것이 사실이다. 이에 본 연구는 과거 20여 년 동안 수행된 서비스 혁신에 대한 분류 선행연구를 살펴보고 각각의 연구의 한계점을 분석한 후 서비스 혁신에 있어 시계열 성이 고려되고 전 조직 차원과 구성원 차원 그리고 고객차원에 이르는 서비스 혁신 단계모형을 제시하고자 하였다. 또한 제시된 8단계의 서비스 혁신 수준을 측정할 수 있는 진단도구의 초안을 사례 기반으로 개발하였다. 본 연구는 향후 서비스 혁신을 추구하는 조직에게 현재수준에 대한 진단을 통해 향후 나아갈 방향을 제시하는 참고 모델로 활용될 수 있을 것이며, 서비스 연구자에게는 서비스 혁신의 올바른 대상과 추진방법 연구의 방향을 제시하여 향후 서비스 연구를 활성화하는데 기여할 것이다.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.193-219
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• 2016

본 연구는 의료분야 사용자 혁신을 아이디어 도출-연구개발-상용화 및 창업의 세 단계로 분류하고, 각 단계별로 혁신의 성공에 미치는 핵심요인의 조합을 30개 국내 사례에 대한 퍼지집합 질적 비교분석을 통해 파악했다. 아이디어 단계에서는 사용자 인적 네트워크상에서 그 가치를 평가하고, 연구개발 단계로의 이행을 위한 자원을 제공해 주는 것이 중요했다. 연구개발 단계에서는 급진적 혁신은 기술역량, 자원 접근성, 정부지원이 모두 갖추어져 있거나 우수한 혁신 네트워크에 아이디어가 도입된 경우 발생했다. 상용화/창업의 경우 급진적 혁신은 연구개발과 같이 세 조건이 모두 갖춰진 경우 발생했으며, 점진적 혁신은 기술역량이 탁월한 개인이 소규모 정부지원 또는 주변 자원을 활용해 이루어졌다. 민간기업의 사용자 혁신 전략과, 정부 지원 정책의 효과, 효율성을 모두 제고할 수 있는 사용자 혁신의 틀을 제공했다는 점에 현실적 의미가 있다. 학술적으로는 사용자 혁신 단계별 핵심요인 조합을 규명하고, 퍼지집합 질적 비교분석방법을 적용한 첫 연구라는 의의가 있다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.627-638
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• 2014

In this paper, we study the joint price and power allocation in spectrum sharing macro-femtocell networks. The proposed game theoretic framework is based on bi-level Stackelberg game where macro base station (MBS) works as a leader and underlaid femto base stations (FBSs) work as followers. MBS has fixed data rate and imposes interference price on FBSs for maintaining its data rate and earns revenue while FBSs jointly adjust their power for maximizing their data rates and utility functions. Since the interference from FBSs to macro user equipment is kept under a given threshold and FBSs compete against each other for power allocation, there is a need to determine a power allocation strategy which converges to Stackelberg equilibrium. We consider two cases for MBS power allocation, i.e., fixed and dynamic power. MBS can adjust its power in case of dynamic power allocation according to its minimum data rate requirement and number of FBSs willing to share the spectrum. For both cases we consider uniform and non-uniform pricing where MBS charges same price to all FBSs for uniform pricing and different price to each FBS for non-uniform pricing according to its induced interference. We obtain unique closed form solution for each case if the co-interference at FBSs is assumed fixed. And an iterative algorithm which converges rapidly is also proposed to take into account the effect of co-tier interference on interference price and power allocation strategy. The results are explained with numerical simulation examples which validate the effectiveness of our proposed solutions.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.261-284
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• 2018

UN이 지속가능개발목표의 하나로 에너지 보급을 제시하고 이니셔티브를 발족하는 등 신재생에너지로의 전환은 세계적인 추세다. 하지만 국가만으로는 목적을 달성할 수 없다. 본 논문은 에너지 파트너십 즉 나쁜 거버넌스로 분류된 국가에서도 혁신의 요소(기술혁신과 운영혁신)를 도입하고, 또한 혁신을 가능케 할 수 있는 공공-민간 파트너십을 효과적으로 활용하면 새로운 에너지 공급에 좋은 환경을 제공할 수 있음을 보여주고자 했다. 요컨대, 아프리카 케냐의 스티마코, 에왕안과 아시아 방글라데시의 그라민 샥티 사례에서 나타났던 다양한 연대의 파트너십(기술혁신 및 운영혁신의 파트너십) 분석을 통해 개도국의 거버넌스 한계에도 불구하고 비용을 절감하고, 시장성을 높여 농촌 오지마을에서도 에너지 수급에 성공한 사례를 소개하고 새로운 개발모델 모색에 대한 시사점을 제공하고자 했다.

• 한국의료질향상학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.47-63
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• 2023

Purpose:This study aims to suggest the future direction for applying service design to improve the quality of healthcare as part of hospital service innovation and present implementation plans in Korea, based on a review of quality improvement activities and the current status of service design applications. Methods: Through a literature review, we examined the status of service design introduction and application in the healthcare field, focusing on cases in the US and Europe. The possibility and limitations of service design in the healthcare field were examined through a comparison of oversea and domestic cases. Results: Recently, service design has begun to be applied to the healthcare field worldwide. Service design shows the possibility of an alternative that alleviates and complements the limitations of existing quality improvement activities. It also offers the possibility of creating new organizational improvement and innovation approaches through integration and convergence with existing quality improvement activities and management innovation. Conclusion: To effectively apply service design to hospitals, it is necessary to integrate internal organizations related to service improvement, combine methods, and objectively measure and evaluate performance. To this end, we propose the operation of a nationwide education and training center for quality improvement and service design led by academic society. Service design will provide an opportunity to change the management innovation and organizational culture of hospitals beyond the scope of the current quality improvement, which deals only with micro-subjects of individual hospitals.

• 한국경제지리학회지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.377-393
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• 2007

국가균형발전과 지역혁신은 참여정부의 핵심 국정 과제의 하나로서 활발히 추진되어 왔다. 국가균형발전은 지역혁신을 통한 자립형 지방화 실현에 역점을 두고 있으며, 그중에서 가장 핵심이 되는 것은 지역의 내생적 산업발전을 촉진하기 위한 지역혁신체제 구축 및 클러스터 육성 정책이다. 이러한 맥락에서 본 논문은 참여정부의 지역혁신 및 혁신클러스터 정책을 평가하고, 이를 토대로 앞으로의 정책 과제를 제시함을 목적으로 한다. 참여정부 지역혁신 및 클러스터 정책의 문제점으로는 과거보다는 나아졌지만 여전히 하향식 정책 추진 방식이 중심이며, 정책의 중복과 정책 간 연계 미흡으로 인한 비효율적인 예산 집행이 가장 큰 문제점으로 지적된다. 또한 대형 토건 프로젝트를 중심으로 하드웨어 중심 사업이 큰 비중을 차지하고 있으며, 모든 지역에 동일한 정책적 잣대를 적용함으로써 지역 간 과열 경쟁은 물론이고 지역의 특성과 잠재성이 충분히 발휘될 수 없다는 점도 개선되어야 할 과제이다.

• World Technopolis Review
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.27-41
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• 2012

The science and technology park movement has been developing for over 60 years. The first developments simply relied on the co-location of tenant companies and the park's host to encourage technology transfer. This is in contrast with their modern counter parts which offer a range of active links between tenant companies and host organisations as well as a raft of business development services to support technology commercialisation. Many of these sites have also become important centres in regional innovation plans. In these cases they are supported by a range of local, regional and national policies that are aimed at establishing a business, technology and social environment which support innovation. The paper examines both the business development programmes developed by science and technology parks to support technology commercialisation and the macro conditions that are now being developed to support innovation.