Identifying leading Korean industries and firms based on patent and export statistics

Selling patents to companies in Taiwan

“…The use of the quantity of US patents owned by enterprises as an index of innovation performance is also commonly accepted (Lee and Rhee, 2008). Companies with lower innovation performance are more likely to suffer in the market.…”

Identification of Technology transfer options based on technological characteristics

“…In addition, the patent may be a good measure for identifying the leading firm as it was used in the study of Lee and Rhee (2008 the firm is high. In addition, it is normal that a firm has higher absorptive capacity in main technological fields than any other technological fields, while main technological fields imply that a firm has high importance of technology in that field.…”

Innovation activities and innovation performances of SMEs: The Korean electronic parts industry 1990–19951)

“…SMEs have been developing new products and processes based on their own R&D efforts and/or collaborative innovation activities with outside technological agencies (Kim, et al, 1993;Kim, 1997;Kim and Lee, 2002), with a few of them having developed world-class new products (Lee and Rhee, 2008). However, all these studies that examined the innovation activities and development of innovation capabilities of latecomer firms are mainly descriptive and based on the case study research design (e.g.…”