The Contribution of Innovation on Productivity and Growth in Korea

기술혁신이 생산성과 경제성장에 미치는 영향

What has been the contribution of industrial innovation to economic growth? Typically, the issue has been approached with growth-accounting methods augmented to include a "stock of knowledge". An independent estimate of the rate of return to R&D is found in order to impute patents granted to the accumulation of knowledge. Griliches(1973) then uses a regression approach to assess the effect of an R&D variable on the computed TFP growth rate. The regression coefficient on the R&D variable would provide an estimate of the social rate of return to R&D. The related studies tend to show high social rates of return to R&D, typically in a range of 20 to 40 % per year. We need to provide multiple equation dynamic system for productivity and innovation in Korean economy in state space form. A wide range of time series models, including the classical linear regression model, can be written and estimated as special cases of a state space specification. State space models have been applied in the econometrics literature to model unobserved variables like productivity. Estimation produces the following results. Considering the goodness of fit, we can see that the evidence is strongly in favor of the range $0.120{\sim}0.135$ for the elasticity of TFP to R&D stock in the period between 1970's and the early 2000's.

기술혁신이 경제성장에 미치는 영향은 어떠한가? 이는 전통적으로 지식스톡을 반영하는 성장회계법에 의해 분석되었다. R&D에 대한 수익률 추정은 특허와 같은 R&D 산출이 지식축적에서 기인하는 것으로 파악한다. Griliches(1973)는 이를 위해 회귀분석 방법을 사용하였다. 본 연구에서는 기존 성장회계법에서의 추정방법과 달리 R&D 효율성을 나타내는 파라미터가 시간이 지남에 따라 변동(time-varying)하는 것을 허용하는 상태공간 모형(state-space model)을 통해 한국경제의 R&D 효율성(fertility)을 추정하였다. R&D 스톡의 생산성에 대한 탄력성은 $0.120{\sim}0.135$ 정도로 추정되었다.