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A Field Study on Global R&D Centers in Korea: Focusing on Global IT Industry Policy with Gap Approach

글로벌 R&D센터에 대한 현장조사연구: 갭접근방법에 의한 글로벌 IT산업정책중심

  • Cho, Sang-Sup (Digital Business Department, Hoseo University) ;
  • Yang, Young-Seok (Graduate School of Entrepreneurial Management, Hanbat National University)
  • 조상섭 (호서대학교 디지털비즈니스학부) ;
  • 양영석 (한밭대학교 창업대학원)
  • Published : 2009.12.31

Abstract

Innovative capacities and performance are essential for the growth of the IT industry and the development of the Korean economy. Global R&D centers are important sources of innovation in the IT industry. In order to identify the structure of the innovation environment of global R&D centers in IT industry, we conducted a field survey of 50 global R&D centers and 50 global R&D policy experts in IT industry. According to the empirical results obtained using the Linear Structure Model, it is suggested that, first, with regard to a short-term IT global policy, the direction of the Korean government's policy should act as a trigger to connect the research domain and the market domain; second, the government policy should act as a facilitator to connect the development domain and the research domain in the mid-term period; and, finally, the government's R&D policy should serve as a disseminator to connect technological capability and the market space domain in the long-term perspective. For an effective way of internationalizing innovation, IT policy planners should regard global IT R&D centers as the important components of national innovation system and encourage the effective involvements by them in the process of IT industrial innovation.

우리나라 IT산업성장에서 혁신잠재력과 혁신수행능력이 중요한 역할을 했다. 글로벌 R&D센터는 IT산업의 혁신의 중요한 요소이다. IT산업에서 혁신환경에 대한 글로벌 R&D센터구조를 파악하기 위하여 R&D센터구성원과 정책입안자 각 50명씩 현장설문을 실시하였다. 본 실증분석결과를 보면 단기적으로 R&D정책은 연구영역과 시장역역의 인식차이를 해소하는 촉진자로서 역할이 중요하며, 중기적으로 R&D정책은 개발과 시장의 영격의 인식차이를 좁히는 조정자로 그리고 장기적으로는 기술능력과 시장의 확산 자로서 역할이 중요함을 보여준다. IT 정책입안자는 R&D정책에서 글로벌 R&D센터를 혁신체계의 요소로 활용하는 것이 요구된다.

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