정량분석에 기반한 정부출연연구기관 연구영역 유사도와 연구협력 관계 고찰

Since 1966, government-funded research institutes have played an important role in the national research innovation process with universities and corporate. In the process of evolution and reorganization, they have been in the midst of system change in order not only to improve accountability and transparency, but also to find a balance point between stability and competition. Although there are various problems such as role overlap or insufficient efficiency, government- funded research institutes constitute the largest part of government research and development investment and core player in national innovation system. It is necessary to grasp an objective detail of the situation in order to support discussion and narrow down diverse alternatives. In this study, we analyzed the degree of similarity of research activity and the type of research cooperation of government-funded research institutes from the viewpoint of quantitative analysis. Analyzing the R&D expenditure and patent information, which are representative elements of input and output of research activities, by applying the detailed classification system, we found that the similarity degree of the portfolio of the technology field or the patent classification is low. It is interpreted that each institute is carrying out specialized research and securing intellectual property rights in each field. The density of research cooperation network was very low, and there was a difference in the degree of cooperative relations by institution. In terms of each technology field, it was confirmed that there is a difference in the cooperative network structure which comes from maturity of technology or industry system. Therefore, it is necessary to make efforts to utilize the merits of the research institutes, which can conduct systematic research based on the solid organization and the field specialty, through launching of big projects that require large-scale cooperation of diverse technology fields.