The paper builds on empirical work describing the relationship between the diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and changes in skills. Using Input-Output data and the Census of Population, it examines the experience in the UK during the 1980s, based on 25 industrial divisions. The results suggest that there was skill upgrading, decreasing motor skills and increasing cognitive skills, accompanying the diffusion of ICTs. This seemed to happen mainly through occupational change rather than educational improvement. The skill change with the usage of ICTs was also positively correlated with productivity growth. However, the skill change brought skill polarization through changes in industrial shares and in female participation. Income dispersion also deteriorated. Therefore, there seems to be an increasing social instability, which can be regarded as a kind of 'Risk', in the expansion of the 'Knowledge-based Society' or in the progress of the 'Information Era'.

This study attempts to develop a methodology that analyzes patent applications to identify future skills, in particular in the sector of information security, recently into the spotlight. Matching skill elements from the International Patent Classification (IPC) with skill units from job analysis, the study tries to track trends in the skills needs based on IPC time-pattern. It then verifies the validity of the outlook for future skills needs by addressing the situation through the use of patents. The research assesses the usability of patent information for this type of analysis. While this study is limited to the information security sector by using Korean patent information, it can be expanded in the future to other areas and patents in the United States and Europe.

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Korea has entered into the Post Catching-up era and the necessity of new innovation strategy in response is being raised. This study argues the necessity of new innovation strategy and discusses the issue of co-ordination between R&D and Human RAISING ISSUESKorea has gone through a successful catching-up process and reached the stage to build new innovation system after year 2000. But this kind of awareness and raising issue has been remained at normative and declaratory level, and direction and policy based on theoretical foundation and proof analysis have not proceeded([1]-[2]). To this matter, this study tries to verify the stagnation of R&D input result and the necessity of new innovation policy, and to demonstrate the immediate need of new innovation policy from the perspective of co-ordination between R&D and human resource.The issues and assertion raised by this study focus on emphasizing the co-ordination with R&D investment more as the core element of innovation system in the aspect of process surrounding national scale knowledge forming & utilizing, which is the another aspect of national innovation system. That has a priority over restructuring the system through element improvement of innovation system such as an increase of R&D investment, in order to achieve transition to post catching-up type innovation system from catching-up innovation system, which is based on the mechanism of imitative learning. In order to verify that, this study tries to carry out changes on R&D output requirements effect by industry based on 'Input-Output table' & attached 'Employment table', usefulness effect between major and job in wage function (especially focusing on engineering school) of university graduates using 'Graduates Occupational Mobility Survey (GOMS)', and * Corresponding author, Email: g.hwang@krivet.re.kr Manuscript received Jul. 12, 2012; revised Sep 7, 2012; accepted Sep 17, 2012 exploratory analysis on knowledge influx and utilization per industry by linking above changes and effects.In theoretical aspect, this study is an extension of research stream for National Innovation System. The studies on National Innovation System include firstly formation and the natural development of National Innovation System's composing elements such as government-university-enterprise-financial institute with focus on institutional structure, exemplified in Freeman[3] from Great Britain with explanation on Japanese production system by focusing on evolutionary aspect and Nelson[4] with explanation on American technological development. Secondly, there is another type of technological innovation theory of Lundvall [5] and Edquist [6] in Europe who paid less attention on the composing elements of national innovation system by emphasizing learning process aspect through user-producer interactions. While the general study current is divided into institutional structure and learning process, study current that emphasizes systematic structure had been deployed into regional innovation system or industry innovati...