• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.1-22
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• 2023

Purpose - Southeast Asia has been the focus of Korea's foreign investment. Korea has been helping developing countries in Southeast Asia achieve economic growth and win-win cooperation through capital exports. FDI is an important channel for technology diffusion. However, the impact of FDI on the bias of technological progress in the host country is dependent on the host country's own endowment structure and capital-labor factor substitution elasticity. Therefore, the central issue of this paper is to accurately evaluate the impact of Korea's FDI to the four Southeast Asian countries in various industries on their bias of technological progress. Design/methodology - The paper uses macroeconomic data for Korea and four East Asian countries to estimate capital-labor factor elasticities of substitution using nonlinear, seemingly uncorrelated regressions (NLSUR). Then, the biased technological change index (BTCI) is calculated for each country. Finally, panel data analysis is used to explore the impact of Korean FDI in various industries in the four Southeast Asian countries on their own directed technological progress, and a robustness test is conducted. Findings - There is a substitution relationship between capital and labor factors based on their elasticity in Korea, Singapore and the Philippines. There is a complementary relationship between capital and labor factors in Indonesia and Malaysia. According to the BTCI, there is a trend toward labor-biased technological progress in all countries. Korean investments in manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade in the host country trigger capital-biased technological change in the host country; investments in the finance, insurance and information and communication sectors trigger labor-biased technological change. In addition, this paper also confirms that directed technological progress can enable cross-country transmission. Originality/value - The innovation of this paper lies in three aspects. First, we estimate the BTCI for five countries and explore the trend and situation of directed technological progress in each country from each country's own perspective. Second, we explore the impact of Korean FDI in the host country on the bias to its technological progress at the industry level. Second, we explore the impact of Korean FDI in various industries in the four Southeast Asian countries on the four countries' own directed technological progress from a national perspective. Finally, we propose corresponding countermeasures for technological progress from the perspective of inverse factor endowment. These innovative points not only expand the understanding of technological progress and cross-country technology transfer in East Asia but also provide practical references for policy-makers and business operators.

• 청정기술
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.127-134
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• 2018

국제해사기구에서는 선박 배기가스 내 질소산화물($NO_x$) 배출에 대한 강화된 Tier III 규제가 2016년부터 적용됨에 따라 이를 대응하기 위한 노력이 필요하다. $NO_x$ 저감 방법으로 선택적 촉매 환원법(Selective catalytic reduction, SCR)을 주로 사용하고 있으며, 세라믹 허니컴 촉매를 주로 사용하고 있다. 그러나 기존의 세라믹 허니컴 촉매는 약한 강도로 인하여 운전상 문제가 발생하거나 유지 및 보수에 있어서도 어려움을 갖는 단점을 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 세라믹 허니컴 촉매의 단점들을 보완하기 위하여 높은 열적 안정성과 기계적 강도를 가짐과 동시에 배기가스의 다방향성 이동을 통한 낮은 배압효과 등의 장점을 가지는 금속 지지체를 적용하였다. 이러한 금속 지지체 상에 촉매를 담지하기 위하여 유 무기바인더 첨가를 통해 코팅슬러리를 제조하고, 이를 코팅, 건조 및 소성과정을 통해 금속 지지체 상에 견고하게 부착된 금속 지지체 기반 촉매를 제조하였다. 이러한 금속 지지체 기반 촉매는 $NO_x$ 성능평가와 초음파 및 낙하시험을 통한 접착 내구성 평가를 수행하였다. 특히, 무기바인더를 첨가한 MFC01경우 95% 이상의 $NO_x$ 전환율을 보였으며, 상용 세라믹 허니컴 촉매보다도 우수한 내구성을 보였다. 이러한 특성 및 성능평가를 통하여 개발된 금속 지지체 기반 촉매는 고효율, 고내구성을 가짐을 확인하였으며, 기존 세라믹 허니컴 촉매를 대체할 수 있는 선박용 배연탈질 촉매로서의 가능성을 확인하였다.