• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.638-661
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• 2009

With the advance to the knowledge-based economy, science and technology (S&T) has been recognized as key factor in a nation's competitiveness. To cope with this kind of new trend Korean government has tried to increase the R&D investment and to streamline acts and regulations concerning national R&D activities. Korea's total R&D expenditure for the year 2007 amounted to about 31.3 trillion won including government R&D of 8.9trillion won. With these efforts the capacity of Korea S&T has made great strides recently. Korea was ranked world's top 7 in R&D investment, top 12 in S&T paper publication and top 4 in patent application. Korean government enacted several pieces of legislation concerning S&T : the "Technology Transfer Promotion Act (1999)"; the "Framework Act on Science and Technology (2000)"; and the "Presidential Regulation for Managing the Government R&D Programs (2001)." In addition, the government has put a lot of effort into promoting the commercialization of technologies developed in public sector and improving the infrastructure of technology transfer and commercialization. However in spite of these various efforts, the technologies obtained from the public sector have not been transferred to the industry properly. Only 24.2% of technologies developed in the public for the year 2005 were transferred to industry. The royalty revenues of the public for the year 2005 was 1.5% of their total R&D expenditure. It shows only a third of the percentage of royalty revenues for the public sector in the U.S.A. and a second of Europe. There are many obstacles of public technology transfer such as immaturity of technology market, lack of licensing experience, and inadequacy of legal system and government policy. In this study I compared the Korean legislative system of patent management of government R&D outputs with the American system, derived problems from Korean system, and suggested proper alternatives.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.19-24
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• 2008

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to induce domestic eyewear industry to invest in research and development of eyewear manufacturing technology and eyewear design. Methods: Analysis of Industrial Rights using data issued by Korea Intellectual Property Office and search results by 'Kipris' (Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service). Results: A number of Industrial Rights Application related to eyewear of eyewear industry has rapidly increased since 1980's. The ratio of Patent and Design Right applications related to eyewear by foreigner has continually decreased, 55%, 32.9% in 1980's, 40%, 22% in 1990's and 27%, 13.9% in 2000's. This shows domestic eyewear industry has developed technology and design on eyewear more and more. But numbers of Design Right applications in 1990's were about 60 in a year and those in 2000's were about 70 in a year. This may explain a few eyewear company have applied for Design Right. Conclusions: It is evident that domestic eyewear industry make an more effort and investment to develop eyewear manufacturing technology and design, but not enough. Actually, we don't know exactly how they develop and how much they invest. Now we need to research problems what they have and environments what they face.

• Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.236-239
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• 2011

A 10 month-old female (intact) Maltese dog was presented due to continuous heart murmur. The dog was diagnosed with patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) based on two-dimensional echocardiography, computed tomography (CT) and angiography. Transarterial coil embolization was used for transcatheter occlusion of the PDA. A single coil was placed successfully and effectively occluded the blood flow through the ductus. Continuous heart murmur disappeared immediately the coil placement and no residual flow was detected. Complications and safety following the procedure were evaluated regularly based on clinical signs, cardiac examinations and serum troponin-I concentrations. This is the first clinical application of coil embolization for transcatheter closure of PDA in a dog in Korea.

• Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.101-113
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• 2011

Objectives : Trend of R&D of herbal medicine for dementia treatment was examined based on the quantitative information analysis for establishing the national strategy of research on dementia treatment with oriental medicine. Methods : Definition was made to clarify the technology for development of herbal medicine for dementia treatment. Based on the initial keyword provided by experts in the field, queries were compounded to conduct search in the search engines of WoS and DWPI. The raw data (papers or patents) extracted from the initial search were examined by expert-review before objects of analysis were determined. Then, the accumulated data was analyzed in terms of year, country and organization, which led to examination of the trend of R&D. And the research performance evaluation for dementia treatment technologies was also made in terms of country, organization and researcher based on the forward citation analysis. The international cooperation intensity was examined on the basis of analysis of network by researcher before analysis results were put together to select lead researchers. Results : According to the quantitative information analysis of 1,330 articles that were selected as analysis objects, the number of papers on natural products research for dementia treatment has increased by around 4.6 times in recent five years. This indicates that the intensive studies have been underway recently. It was found to be the US that had the highest level in research filed of herbal medicine for dementia treatment and the highest capacity of international cooperation for that purpose. On the contrary, Korea had the share of papers at 5.1%, the number of countries in cooperation research at 8, and the article quality index at 0.40, showing that the qualitative level was insufficient, compared to the quantitative outcome. In particular, Korea was found to have no intensity of international cooperation among researchers. In case of patent, the results of information analysis of 305 patents selected as analysis objects demonstrated that China had the highest share while Korea had the very low frequency of patent application quantitatively. Conclusions : In this study, the research to develop herbal medicine for dementia treatment has recently drawn much attention that has spread around the globe. Therefore, these results suggest establishing the strategy to develop technology for dementia treatment with oriental medicine in the future based on quantitative information analysis.

• Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.57-66
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• 2022

According to the official letter of the Ministry of Employment and Labor (recent guidance on the status of deaths in the construction industry and thorough safety management, April 4, 2022), 17 deaths occurred in construction works worth more than 5 billion won until March 31, 2022. In terms of the size of the construction, 7 cases of 5 billion won to 12 billion won, 5 cases of 12 billion won to 80 billion won, and 5 cases of more than 80 billion won occurred. The causes of death accidents were found to be nine cases (50%), five cases (28%), two cases of collapse (11%), one case of entrapment (5%), and one case of drowning (5%). Safety facilities need to be strengthened to reduce deaths caused by falling, which accounts for most of the deaths, and if fall prevention nets, openings, and safety rails are completely installed, most falling accidents can be prevented. Therefore, this paper intends to present cases of development and use of patent technology through improvement of safety facilities in order to prevent accidents corresponding to the fall of new urban living housing sites, which are small apartment houses.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2024

This paper analyzes the trends in generative AI technology based on patent application documents. To achieve this, we selected 5,433 generative AI-related patents filed in South Korea, the United States, and Europe from 2003 to 2023, and analyzed the data by country, technology category, year, and applicant, presenting it visually to find insights and understand the flow of technology. The analysis shows that patents in the image category account for 36.9%, the largest share, with a continuous increase in filings, while filings in the text/document and music/speech categories have either decreased or remained stable since 2019. Although the company with the highest number of filings is a South Korean company, four out of the top five filers are U.S. companies, and all companies have filed the majority of their patents in the U.S., indicating that generative AI is growing and competing centered around the U.S. market. The findings of this paper are expected to be useful for future research and development in generative AI, as well as for formulating strategies for acquiring intellectual property.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.139-169
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• 2023

This study analyzes the effects of firms' technology innovation(patent applications) on employment(number of workers and proportion of high-skilled workers) and corporate performance(sales per worker), while considering the two-way causal relationships between these variables. We used the three-stage least squares(3SLS) estimation to examine system of equations in which the dependent variables affect each other with a two-year lag wherever relevant, and applied it to firm-level panel data of Korean manufacturers with 100 or more workers. Our data covered the period of 2005-2017. Exogenous variables, such as firms' managerial and other characteristics, were controlled as explanatory variables. The identification variables for each equation included firms' R&D intensity, labor cost per worker(or operation of firms' own R&D center), and investment on worker training. We find that firms' patent applications increased number of workers, proportion of high-skilled workers, and sales per worker; the causal relationships in the opposite direction were also significant. Evidently, firms' technology innovation is critical to the growth and quality improvement of employment as well as sustainable corporate growth.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2016.02a
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• pp.122-122
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• 2016

타 디스플레이의 역사에 비하여 상대적으로 짧은 기간 내 빠른 기술적인 성장을 거듭한 OLED 기술은 향후 디스플레이는 물론 조명시장까지 잠재적인 큰 시장을 갖고 있다. 따라서 이러한 시장을 확보하기 위해서 지속적인 기술 개발이 필요한 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 OLED 제조공정 중 챔버를 진공상태로 유지하기 위해 챔버 단독 또는 챔버와 챔버 사이에 설치되는 진공밸브 관련 기술의 특허 현황분석을 통해 중복연구와 기술 침해로 인한 문제점을 미연에 방지하고 향후 연구방향을 설정하는데 있어 선행 기술 자료로 활용하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.657-661
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• 2006

오늘날 지식기반사회에서 새로운 과학의 출현이 새로운 산업으로 확산되어 국가경쟁력에 이바지하고 있다. 일반적으로 논문을 통한 연구는 과학을 대변하고, 기술은 특허로 대체되는 것으로 인지하고 있다. 현재 과학은 SCI 의 인용색인 데이터를 바탕으로 각 문헌에 대한 인용통계정보를 제공하는 저널평가 테이터베이스인 JCR을 활용하여 분석하고 평가, 파악하고 있는 실정이다. 과학기술 분야의 누적된 논문수, 인용횟수, 연구자 분석 등 다양하게 적용할 수 있다. 반면 특허는 전체 출원, 등록건수 등 국가의 거시적인 흐름을 평가하는 수단으로는 주로 활용되어지고 있으나 정보소스의 한계나 분석시의 한계로 인하여 다양한 분석이 활용되기 어려운 실정이다. 인용정보로서 활용시 이를 위한 과도한 전처리 작업이 요구되며, 분석이 번거롭고 용이하지 않는 현실이므로 다양하게 분석시 사용하기가 어렵다. 이를 활용하여 문헌에 적용된 분석을 활용하여 새로운 고부가 정보를 제안해 보고자 한다.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.13-31
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• 1998

In this paper, we examine the relationship between information type and new product development process. Information that was provided for new product development can be divided into two categories. One was relative information that could be used as a basis for comparison such as patent data. The other was absolute information that must be fulfilled in the new product such as key customers requirements. An experiment was conducted with staffs in an R＆D department in order to analyze the impact of the different information types on the development process of new product. It was found that the group with the absolute information recognized the given information repeatedly, which in turn results in a highly technical idea with good teamwork. The group with the relative information created a superior product with better application, appearance and product efficiency through the frequent refinements of given ideas. This paper concludes with the implications of the results to the new product development process and supporting information systems.