The new approach to the collaboration among academia, industry, and public research sector: Focussing on Building a collaboration research center

산학연 협력의 새로운 방향: 산학연 협력연구실 구축을 중심으로

  • 정선양 (건국대학교 경영대학 기술경영학과) ;
  • 김기동 (세종대학교 대학원 경영학과)
  • Published : 2008.12.30

Abstract

The collaboration among academia, industry, and public research sector gains importance in these days. This is essential for implement competent regional and national innovation systems. There have been many governmental programs for activating collaboration among innovation actors. Most policy programs for collaboration have aimed at increasing S&T and innovation potential and constructing S&T infrastructure. However, Korea has not produced a sufficient level of collaboration, especially on regional level. Most policy programs could not reach regions and many regions have no enough innovation actors. In order to activate R&D collaboration, therefore, we suggest that Korean S&T community should build and implement "collaborative research centers" all over the regions. This concept is very new approach, especially because it focuses on collaboration among regional innovation actors. In this paper, we discuss a concept, type, and execution strategy of collaboration research centers. We expect that these centers will play an important role in implementing successful regional innovation systems, as they will link regional innovation actors very closely.

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