Study on Efficiency of Joint Research on National R&D Projects by Research Entity and Technology Life Cycle

Abstract

With the recent growth of industry, there has been a rising demand for evaluation of efficiency of collaborative R&D projects among industries, universities, and research institutes against R&D investments. In this paper, we analyzed the efficiency of the joint national R&D projects performed on the display technology fields, which is considered as an out-performed area as South Korea possesses number of world-leading technologies in the area. To evaluate the efficiency of the joint R&D projects, we mainly used the research outputs of the national R&D projects such as research papers, domestic and overseas patents, technology transfer, and commercialization. The results show that the efficiency of the early stages of the joint R&D projects is higher than other life stages in terms of the productivity of the research papers and patents, and the efficiency of the growth and maturity stages is superior on the productivity of the technology transfer and commercialization. Furthermore, the productivity of the research papers of the university is higher than the other research entities while the industry has higher productivity on the technology transfer and commercialization.