Scientific and technological performances (e.g., patents and publications) made through R&D play a pivotal role for national economic growth. National governments encourage academia-industry cooperation and thereby pursue continuous development of science technology and innovation. Increasing R&D-related investments and manpower are crucial for national industrial development, but evidence of poor performance in business performance, efficiency, and effectiveness has recently been found in Korea. This study evaluates performance efficiency of the 6T sector (Information Technology, Bio Technology, Nano Technology, Space Technology, Environment Technology, Culture Technology), which is considered a high-potential promising industry for the next generation growth and currently occupies two thirds of the national R&D projects. The study measures the relative efficiency of R&D in a comparative perspective by employing the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. The result reveals overall low efficiency in basic R&D (0.2112), applied R&D (0.2083), development R&D (0.2638), and others (0.0641), confirming that economic performance and efficiency were relatively poor compared to production efficiency. Efficient R&D needs policy makers to create strategies that can increase overall efficiency by improving productivity performance and quality while increasing economic performance.

When evaluating effectiveness of a program, there is a tendency to simply compare the performances of the treated before and after the program or to compare the differences in the performances of the treated and the untreated before-after the program. However, these ways of evaluating effectiveness have problems because they can’t account for environmental changes affecting the treated and/or effects coming from the differences between the treated and the untreated. Therefore, in this paper, panel data analysis (fixed effects model) is suggested as a means to overcome these problems and is utilized to evaluate the effectiveness of fusion technology program conducted by Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Korea. As a result, it turns out that the program has definitely positive impacts on the beneficiary in terms of sales, R&D expenditure, and employment.

본 연구는 정부의 대표적인 상용화 기술혁신정책인 산업기술개발사업의 성과에 영향을 미치는 요인을 분석함으로써 관련 정책결정자에게 정책적인 시사점을 주는데 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 2003년부터 2007년간 종료된 산업기술개발사업을 대상으로 정부가 중요하게 고려하는 정책요인별로 가설을 형성하였다. 사업을 수행한 주관기관의 유형(대기업, 중소기업, 벤처기업, 연구소, 대학)에 따라 R&D성과에 차이가 있는지, 산학연간의 협력 개발이 단독 개발에 비해 R&D성과가 나은지, 과제 참여기관 수와 R&D성과의 관계, 과제 총금액의 크기와 R&D성과의 관계, 과제 총금액에서 차지하는 민간 총투자금의 비중과 R&D성과의 관계 등을 검증하고 있다. R&D성과는 산업기술개발사업의 제1차적 성과물인 특허등록건수와 논문게재건수로 측정하였다. 포아송 회귀분석 결과, 기업이나 연구소에 비해 대학이 특허 및 논문 차원의 R&D성과가 높은 것으로 나타났으며, 벤처기업의 특허 성과는 중소기업의 특허성과에 비해 높은 것으로 나타났다. 산학연의 협력개발은 단독개발에 비해 대체적으로 R&D성과가 높고, 과제 총금액이 클수록 R&D성과가 높으며, 민간 총 투자금의 비중이 높을수록 대체적으로 R&D성과가 높은 것으로 나타났다. 과제 참여기관의 수와 R&D성과간의 역U자형 관계 가설은 지지되지 않았다.