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Principal Investigator(s)

Park, Kyung / Department of Economics, Mokwon University

Producer(s)

The Research Institute for Social Science, Mokwon University

Abstract

The「Survey on Regional Innovative Environment」was conducted to search for measures to improve the competitiveness of corporations by examining the innovative efforts and environment of regional corporations in a knowledge based economy. For the purposes of regional comparison, this survey was conducted among corporations in Daejeon and Changwon as survey targets as they are the most traditional areas in concentration of similar industries. This data was collected from corporations in the 4 regional industrial complexes in the Daejeon area (based on numbers form 1999, 114 corporations were chosen at random out of 223) and 153 venture businesses certified by the Small and Medium Business Administration.
The questionnaire includes contents on corporate information (year of establishment, industry, product, number of employees), R&D and level of technology (number of research personnel, weight of R&D funding, ownership of intellectual property rights, introduction of technologies), innovative activities (execution of innovative activities per area), source and channel of innovation, innovation and resource network among corporations (sales and purchase amounts of corporations, level of innovative contribution per cooperative partners within region, cooperative relations with other corporations within region), network between corporations and support agency (level of innovative contribution per support agency, cooperative relations with universities and public institutions), spread of innovation (transfer of skilled workers, opening a business within the region), and the region’s culture of trust (cooperative culture, informal information sharing).

Keywords

technological development r & d innovation industry-academia cooperation cooperation between industry and academia

Subjects

Industry/ Business

Series

Survey on Regional Innovative Environment

Citation

Park, Kyung. Survey on Regional Innovative Environment, 2000 : Daejeon [Dataset]. The Research Institute for Social Science, Mokwon University [Producers]. Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA) [Distributors], 2008-12-24, https://doi.org/10.22687/KOSSDA-A1-2000-0045-V1.0.

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