본 연구에서는 개방형 혁신활동의 수준을 너비와 깊이라는 두 차원으로 나누 어 이들이 혁신성과에 미치는 영향을 파악하고, 기술보호의 매개효과를 실증 분석하고자 한 다. 이를 위해 한국기업혁신조사(KIS, 2018)에 응답한 기업 중 혁신성과를 도출한 경험을 보 유한 제조업과 서비스업 기업 1,403개사를 대상으로 다중선형회귀분석, 위계적 회귀분석을 적용하였다. 분석 결과, 개방형 혁신활동의 너비는 급진적 혁신성과에 긍정적인(+) 영향을 미 쳤으며 개방형 혁신활동의 깊이는 점진적 혁신성과에 긍정적인(+) 영향을 미쳤다. 기술보호 의 매개효과를 검증한 결과, 혁신활동의 너비와 급진적 혁신활동 사이에는 부분매개를, 깊이 와 급진적 혁신활동 사이에는 완전매개를 하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 결과는 개방형 혁신을 추진하는 기업과 그 중에서도 기술의 획득을 통해 제품혁신을 추진하는 기업에게 중 요한 시사점을 제시하고 있다.
This study analyzes the business performance of research and development(R&D) and especially studies the effect of technology management activity and technology innovation competency on commercialization performance. According to previous studies, the technology management activity can be composed of technological innovativeness, analysis of market, R&D method, and appropriateness for commercialization plan. Also, the technology innovation can be divided into patent, R&D manpower, R&D investment ratio, production capability, and marketing capability. On the result of the analysis, all the components of technology management activity are positively related with commercialization performance. In case of technology innovation competency, however, only production and marketing capabilities have influence on the business performance. Especially, marketing capability controls the effect of technology management activities on the commercialization performance. Consequently, technology management is very important activity for SMEs to succeed commercialization and SMEs should collaborate with production and marketing departments from the early stage of R&D.
The present paper deals with an analysis of relationship among technical human resources management as a precursor, technology innovation activity and achievements of technical innovation on the basis of preceding empirical studies on technology innovation activities of manufacturing corporations. The analysis shows that First, the technical human resources management is found to have influence upon technology innovation activity in various ways, implying that the role of technical human resources management as a key to technical innovation is most important of all to enable manufacturing companies to gain edge in competition by means of technology innovation activity; and Second, technology innovation activity exercises impacts on the achievements of exploitative technology innovation as well as on the achievements of exploratory technology innovation on the part of manufacturing industry. The above findings prove that the level of technology innovation activity may be a source for superior competitiveness of manufacturing business as a result of technology innovation performance. Manufacturing corporations, thus, need to place more weight on stepping up their executive level of technology innovation activity factors than on increasing simply the level of technical investment.