In this paper, efficiencies of core technology development projects, conducted by Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, are compared. In the process, DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) is utilized as a main technique for comparing efficiencies. For DEA, input oriented BCC Model is adopted with government grant, recipient expenditure, the number of participating institutions, and project duration as input factors, and the number of patents, the number of papers, and occurred sales as output factors. As a result, next generation mobile communication project turns out to be the most efficient project of all. Therefore, next generation mobile communication project should be benchmarked for the other projects to follow. However, these results should be used only for reference data since every project has a different objective and, of course, is run under a different environment.

• 김흥규(단국대학교 경영학부) | Heung-Kyu Kim Corresponding Author
• 강원진(기술과가치 MoT본부) | Won-Jin Kang
• 박정희(한국산업기술진흥원 기술사업화단) | Jung-Hee Park
• 여인국(한국산업기술진흥원 기술전략단) | In-Kuk Yeo