Chanwoo Cho

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute | ETRI · Economics of Technology Research Division

As user-centric innovation has recently emerged as a successful way of developing new products, services, and concepts, it is worth considering the perspectives of potential technology users during R&D project selection processes. Nevertheless, little effort has been made to reflect customer-perceived value in establishing selection criteria, with...

This study suggests a novel approach to assessing research and development (R&D) innovation capabilities and devises solutions to support the strengthening innovation capabilities of technology-based SMEs. An assessment framework is developed using top-down and bottom-up approaches simultaneously to identify the critical capabilities required for R...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) use R&D support services to increase their R&D efficiency because they can facilitate innovation by supplying the planning and management functions that SMEs may lack. This study investigates the issues that can arise during service transaction processes and ways of improving SMEs’ use of R&D support servic...

To strengthen competences, most of firms have co-operated with external partners. This increases the possibility of unexpected conflicts between firms due to the intellectual property litigation. A suitable intellectual property strategy for firms has to be developed to settle this issue. This study aims to analyze an utilization of intellectual pr...

The importance of user information and user participation for seeking business opportunities has been widely acknowledged in a variety of industries. Therefore, this study aims to suggest a typology for user innovation models as a strategy for sustainable development and to investigate the characteristics of different types user innovation to encou...

Since the mobile boom has started to cause a traffic jam in mobile broadband networks, forecasts on future traffic needs are urgent information for the provision of high-quality mobile broadband services. Thus, this research aims to forecast mobile broadband traffic, focusing on the Korean case. With the emergence of diverse classes of services, wh...

Technology opportunity discovery (TOD) is becoming increasingly important for identifying technology opportunities so that they can be reflected in firms' strategy planning. However, understanding of TOD practices within firms is limited, and the diversity of TOD practices has not been fully reflected in previous studies, especially from the perspe...

Although useful service planning tools exist, few focus on how to integrate service planning into business and technology planning from a longer perspective, which is essential for a firm to survive and grow in the current and future service environment. We suggest that technology roadmaps, initially developed as a long-term strategic planning tool...

Industry convergence is the inexorable trend, which has become a fundamental concept to understand the industrial dynamics and to develop business strategies. However, most of the previous studies on convergence have dealt with the issues at the macro-level (technology- or industry-level), little attention has been paid to the analysis of convergen...

This research aims to identify promising IT items from the perspectives of Korean SMEs and further to development a policy for SMEs in the IT industry. For this purpose, we adopted a bottom-up approach by discovering IT items on high demand by SMEs as their now growth engines and thus used a survey method. We also analyzed the ecosystem characteris...

Recently a strong increase in R&D investment has encouraged a firm to create a more effective and efficient R&D process, which allows it to save time and costs significantly. In order to build such a process, a firm should be able to evaluate its process, based on which the process can be improved. With all its importance and value, however, the pr...

The mobile-phone market has changed from a new purchase market to a replacement market when it is matured. At the same time smartphones come into the spotlight as an alternative of feature phones in the mobile-phone market. Since the characteristics of ‘smartphones’ are greatly different from those of ‘feature phones’ in that more technologies are...

Recently, the importance of services in the economy has been rapidly increasing, and dominating trends of industries has been moving toward services. Many corporations recognized that the adoption of services into their manufacturing processes can create new opportunities and started to improve their business models by combining product offerings w...