Jisun Kim

• Ph.D.
• Portland State University

Energy efficiency (EE) is an important source of electricity in the USA, by ways of saving electricity and curbing demand growth through the use of more efficient products, and the Pacific NW is a leading region in the EE efforts in America. Some of these efforts include studies and policies aiming to introduce energy efficient home appliances into...

The technology transfer concept is not consensual throughout the literature and encompasses several different facets and nuances. In spite of the apparent confusion regarding its definition, researchers and practitioners are unanimous when it comes to its importance – especially for organizations that depend on technological development. The litera...

Technology in Healthcare sector is undergoing a fast growth compared other sectors due to the opportunity for improvement. Among the few emerging technologies implemented in hospitals Radio frequency identification (RFID) is considered to be a prominent technology. Even though RFID has been applied successfully in various sectors like retail, manuf...

Though vacuum cleaning robots have been regarded as the most promising product which can penetrate the consumer market as a robotic product, the technology of vacuum cleaning robots seems not to be developed enough to snuggle into customers’ choice yet. And, the Technology development of vacuum cleaning robots depends on several factors driven by t...

Electricity generation in the United States is primarily based on fossil fuels with very little of it coming from renewable energy sources. In the last few years the proportion of electricity generated by non hydropower based renewable sources has remained constant while generation from fossil fuels has increased. In this chapter, we provide a back...

Electric vehicles are seen by the public as a solution to the growing societal concern of green house effect created by the transport sector. Moreover there is a strong consensus that in the future it will be cheaper to own and drive electric vehicles. Since the advent of electric vehicles in 1899 not much progress has been made to make electric ve...

This purpose of this paper is to try and forecast the adoption rate of “consumer grade” 3D printers for use in a typical United States household. Several assumptions are made. The first assumption is made that the consumer will treat the 3D printer as a “durable good”. The second assumption is that the consumer’s purchasing limit will be $1000. The...

This book introduces readers to essential technology assessment and forecasting tools, demonstrating their use on the basis of multiple cases. As organizations in the high-tech industry need to be able to assess emerging technologies, the book presents cases in which formal decision-making models are developed, providing a framework for decision-ma...

In an effort to encourage consumers to purchase electric vehicles (EVs), the government has been funding battery research to solve some of these problems. This paper presents a study using technology forecasting using data envelopment analysis (TFDEA) to forecast future battery performance characteristics. The results were compared against the perf...

Over the course of a decade, the Bonneville Power Administration's Technology Innovation Office has developed a roadmapping approach that captures business challenges and opportunities critical to the agency, links these with barriers to success, and connects these with technical solutions and research questions. Senior leaders from across the agen...

Experts predict that in the majority of countries state healthcare expenditures will continue to rise. Usage of telemedicine applications - the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) in order to provide clinical health care at a distance - will help optimize the costs of healthcare in the long-term. The main advantages of telemedi...

This paper contributes to measurement of licensing performance of U.S. research institutions by suggesting an approach for identifying time-lags in the licensing process. Licensing is a multi-state process starting with a disclosure, and resulting in intermediate outcomes such as patents, licensing agreements, and licensing income. The time duratio...

Technologies such as renewable energy alternatives including wind, solar and biomass, storage technologies and electric engines are creating a different landscape for the electricity industry. Using sources and ideas from technologies such as renewable energy alternatives, Research and Technology Management in the Electricity Industry explores a di...

Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is a Federal agency marketing and transmitting electricity power to northwest area in the US. BPA invests on research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects to create and deliver the best value for the customers. In order to identify and support the valuable RD&D projects, BPA develops technology roadma...

Solving climate change and the associated need for increasing renewable energy supply make energy storage a critical technological component of the future energy landscape. Research to build more reliable and cost-effective energy storage technologies is now on the rise. As a result, many new technologies and applications are evolving and competing...

U.S. academic research institutions spent public and private funds of 54 billion dollars solely in 2009. This is a significant investment considering recent harsh economic downturn. While there exists public acknowledgement of importance of unremitting investment on research and development, U.S. research institutions still struggle to validate the...

This study presents a formal comparison of TFDEA with regression model to forecast wireless communication technology. In addition to the data set from the former research, up-to-2011 4G network technologies are added and analyzed. The research was designed to set the point of forecasting in 2001 so that technologies between 2001 and 2011 are to be...

Universities have different research environments and attitudes toward commercialisation of their discoveries than to industries. These differences are inherent in the distinctive missions, roles, and organisational structures. Therefore, performance of technology transfer of universities depends on different organisational setting and their percep...

Performance evolution of universities' licensing practice has been a favorable interest in literature. However, the existing studies implicitly or explicitly states their limitation of ignoring time-lag effects of the licensing variables such as expenditure, patents, start-up licensing income. A statistics process detecting time-lag coefficients of...

This study evaluates efficiencies and their changes of technology licensing practices of 46 U.S. research institutions using licensing data of the association of university technology manager (AUTM) survey from 1991 to 2007. Data envelopment analysis and Malmquist Index are well-known methods evaluating relative performance of service organizations...

Time-series analysis in Econometrics provides advanced methods identifying relationship among time-seriesed subjects which have been rarely applied to engineering management field. While sophisticated econometrics methods such as distributed lag model with unrestricted lag, arithmetic lag, polynomial lag and geometric lag structure, and dynamics mo...

The number of wireless mobile communication service subscribers reached 4.6 billion worldwide in 2009, and mobile revenues are expected to be over US$1 trillion around 2012 according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). A significant number of studies have been made to forecast the growing market and evaluate the new generation techn...

The purpose of the paper is to present a formal comparison of a variety of multiple regression models in technology forecasting for wireless communication. We compare results obtained from multiple regression models to determine whether they provide a superior fitting and forecasting performance. Both techniques predict the year of wireless communi...

This paper provides a comprehensive review of literature on university technology transfer. The success of nations depends on how efficient research can be translated into commercial products. Universities play a key role in this. There are two major areas that need to be understood to build an efficient technology transfer mechanisms. First are th...

There have been very active and significant studies done in the area of university technologies transfer (UTT). One interested topic among them is to measure performance of the UTT. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been regarded as a proper approach to measure the university technology transfer efficiency (UTTE). However, current studies stay in...

Wireless communications technologies have undergone rapid changes over the last 30 years from analog approaches to digital-based systems. These technologies have improved on many fronts including bandwidth, range, and power requirements. Development of new telecommunications technologies is critical. It requires many years of efforts. In order to b...