Moon-Soo Kim

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies · Department of Industrial and Management Engineering

The application and effects of the project-based learning (PBL) model have been carried out in various majors and courses, and the results analysed in several studies. This study was focused on the Covid-19 pandemic period from 2020 to 2022 to discuss lessons and effects of applying an on-line and off-line PBL model to engineering economics courses...

Capstone Design, a project-based learning technique, is the most important curriculum that clarifying major knowledge and cultivating the ability to apply through the process of solving problems in the industrial field centered on the student project team. Accordingly, various and extensive studies are being conducted for the successful implementat...

In many existing studies, the analyses on the application and effect of the project-based learning model (PBL), a student-centered teaching and learning strategy, have been emphasized and carried out in various majors and courses. This case study analyzes the effects of applying a project-based learning model to the engineering accounting course fo...

The College of engineering's capstone design is student-team-centred learning based on project-based learning and is one of the most important courses for students aiming to be competent professional engineers capable of solving real industrial problems. Therefore, in order to resolve the capstone problems, various face-to-face contacts such as fre...

Although recently humanities and social science disciplines in the technological innovation system are more and more important, further non-engineering students majoring humanities and social science disciplines need to understand industrial situation and problems as well as play key a role in problem solving process, there are few studies on multi...

With the rise of service innovation, service is no longer considered peripheral to the business environment, and is increasingly being seen as a core offering to customers. Technology has played a central role in the rise of service innovation, but previous studies on service technology have discussed mostly qualitative approaches. For this reason,...

While multidisciplinary knowledge with the humanities, art and literature, and social science plays a mediation role in the innovation process, and is a source of imagination for creativity, keeping the value of the humanities in mind when applying engineering technology in reality, there are few theoretical and empirical studies on multidisciplina...

The use of project-based learning (PBL) has increased in most of engineering schools, and many engineering students now carry out capstone design projects as a form of student-directed learning. Although colleges have provided enormous numbers of references through on-and off-library, students have still a lot of difficulties in utilizing such info...

The introduction and application of new technology to the value chain of firm, especially its manufacturing and service system, requires the economic validity due to its relevant huge investment and several risks about which stakeholders are concerned. The analysis for the economic validity of introducing the new technology has focused on financial...

Notwithstanding the prevailing trend towards a product-service system (PSS), literature has not fully supported a company's PSS innovation due to an absence of available data and a lack of quantitative methodology. In particular, despite the importance of technology in PSS, literature has paid little attention to technology as an innovation source...

The capstone course in colleges of engineering is participant-directed learning (PDL) based on project-based learning (PBL) and is one of the most important courses for students aiming to become competent professional engineers capable of solving real industrial problems. Thus, the course has attracted much attention and involves participation of s...

Various combinations of Web and PBL have increasingly been suggested. To improve students' practical problem-solving abilities and active knowledge construction, the author suggests a Web-based problem-based learning system (PBLS), develops it for an engineering accounting course, and examines its effects through students' evaluation scores on six...

An intelligence system has come to be regarded as a vital component in formulating technology strategies and developing new technology-based services. However, most such systems currently focus on providing graphical frameworks and databases to support the process of analysis. The proposed system in this paper, aims to offer the information of tech...

This study, as a subsequent analysis on estimation of the market share increase by introduction of a caselevel RFID tagging-based system by Kim, analyzes the process changes and estimates the internal efficiency achieved by introduction of such a system into the public parcel-delivery service of Korea. The cost-benefit analysis, which is based on e...

As the importance of symbiosis and cooperation in mobile manufacturing and service industries is increasing, the concept of mobile ecosystems has been especially highlighted. The mobile manufacturing and service industries interact with each other to produce value-added and synergy effect, constructing ecosystems. In this respect, the structure of...

In order to cope with the increasing demand for multidisciplinary learning in commercial realities of industrial practice for the creative economy, a consilience-type teaching and learning model and related operational tools or software enabling applications to engineering education are essential. This study proposes a conceptual framework with emb...

This study proposes a new approach for investigating opportunities for service technologies through analyzing business method patents. First, technological interrelationship matrices of co-occurrence, relatedness, and cross-impact perspectives are constructed by conducting an association rule mining on the co-classification information of patent da...

This study suggests an approach to mobile application service concepts generation and evaluation with an analysis of a mobile application store database. To generate mobile application service concepts, text mining and morphological analysis are employed. Conjoint analysis is applied to evaluate them. The detailed procedure is illustrated with a ca...

Previous studies on the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have typically compared the performance of internationalized SMEs (I-SMEs) with that of non-internationalized SMEs. However, not all I-SMEs can successfully lead the international market either unless they should consistently strive to attain and maintain comp...

This study suggests an approach to mobile application service concept development with an analysis of a mobile application store database. To generate the alternatives of mobile application service concepts, text mining, factor analysis, and morphological analysis are employed. Conjoint analysis is applied to evaluate alternatives. The proposed can...

The lack of empirical studies on the relative efficiency of the innovative activities of service firms is one of the problems of monitoring growth of the service sector. To fill this void, from the perspective of efficiency, this paper provides empirical evidence on the efficiency of innovative activities. In addition, a new taxonomy of services th...

In the era of technology-based service, a user review is one of significant source of diagnosing service qualities. The objec-tive of this paper is to propose a user re-view based approach to developing the Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) framework, which has been widely ac-cepted as a tool for service quality im-provement. Especially, this p...

An important feature in recent innovation trend is the merging and overlapping of technologies, i.e. the technological convergence. The paper proposes two approaches using patent data to examine the technological convergence. First, we conduct a patent network analysis using the patent citation, which can be considered as a knowledge flow among tec...

This study analyses the eects of ftur types of collaborative activities on the R&D pelformance of service SMEs in the context of open innovation: in-house R&D (non-collaboration), technology acquisition, R&D collaboration, and networking. For this, the study employs data envelopment analysis, a power tool that uses multiple inputs and outputs to me...

In recent innovation trends, one notable feature is the merging and overlapping of technologies: in other words, technological convergence. A key technological convergence is the fusion of biotechnology (BT) and information technology (IT). Major IT advances have led to innovative devices that allow us to advance BT. However, the lack of data on IT...

The five forces model has been one of the most influential frameworks for strategic management. In contrast to its importance as a centerpiece of textbooks, however, it has attracted less attention from both academic researchers and practicing managers. This is due to its innate weakness, difficulty in operationalization. The vital requisites for o...

The body of literature has been almost unanimous for the needs for quality assurance for R&D. Despite the needs, quality assurance in R&D has been rarely discussed due to the difficulties of defining, measuring, and managing R&D quality. Even some guidelines or standards have been suggested to deal with quality management, there is a lack of resear...

This research aims at conducting a comparative study on the relative efficiency of technologically innovative activities between manufacturing and service industries using data envelopment analysis (DEA). First, as an individual approach, efficiency of technologically innovative activities between manufacturing and service industries is separately...

Since previous frameworks and methods for evaluation of national R&D have mainly focused on short-term R&D outputs, long-term R&D outcomes have been neglected so that they have failed to be fully utilized and spread. Thus, it is imperative to mirror long-term R&D outcomes in performance evaluation and utilize them through continuous management and...

The recent trend in technology development is characterized as technology convergence, mainly between IT, BT and NT and also more and more industries are starting to use several technologies simultaneously or in a combined way theses days. As a result, the needs on technology interaction analysis is increasing for strategic technology management an...

This paper reviews the recent theoretical and empirical studies on the European countries that the bill and keep settlement between mobile operators is superior to the financial settlement like CPNP from the perspectives of social welfare and fare competition in market. Besides these the recent studies, considering the change of mobile wholesale ma...

With the growth of competition in the telecommunication market, optional calling plans were introduced in 1980s, have expanded dramatically in 1990s and now have become widespread rate systems in many coun-tries. In this respect, the Korean telephone market also provided various rates. Compared to other countries, however, a special optional callin...

As the interactions between technologies increase during the innovation process, which is well described in the concept of fusion technology or a multi-technology industry, recent innovation research has given much attention to inter-technology networks. This study reviews two techniques to develop such networks using patent data, a patent interact...

This study focuses on two perspectives from the competition between technologies and the change of market structure in terms of the number of operators in mobile service market. On the promise that the competition between the heterogeneous technologies as well as between the mobile service operators is a core driver of rapid diffusion, a diffusion...

This paper investigates the interactive nature of relationships between Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in terms of their technological innovations and diffusion. For the purpose, the United States Patent and Trademarks Office (USPTO) database was used and Lotka-Volterra equations were applied to the patent data, resulting in a P...

The notion of the knowledge-based economy highlights the strategic importance of inter-industrial knowledge flows. Among others, the crucial role of information and communications technology (ICT) industry is emphasized. The pattern whereby technological knowledge is created, accumulated and disseminated through the interactive learning among indus...

The Korean government established dasiathe Act on Performance Evaluation and Management for National R&D Programspsila in 2005, and one year later constructed a master plan, dasiaA Basic Plan for the Management and Utilization of R&D performancepsila that focused on better diffusing the public R&D outcomes. In this study, we propose a performance a...

Traditionally, the diffusion of telecommunications services has been considerably affected by the presence of critical mass and network externalities, and thus has shown the so-called "late take-off" phenomenon. However, as telecommunications networks evolve from circuit switching to packet switching, especially IP networks, and thus enabling diver...

With the growth of competition in the telecommunication market, optional calling plans were introduced in 1980s, have expanded dramatically in 1990s and now have become widespread rate systems in many countries. The Korean fixed operators currently provide OCPs. Compared to other countries; however, special optional calling plan has activated in Ko...

Since the introduction of competition in the telecommunication market due to the growth of the interconnection between heterogeneous networks, particularly fixed and mobile networks, the interconnection charge based on traffic-sensitive (TS) and non-traffic-sensitive (NTS) costs has become more important. Although there have been many studies of th...

Traditionally, diffusion of telecommunications services has been considerably affected by presence of critical mass and network externalities, and thus shown the so-called late take-off phenomenon. However, as telecommunications network evolves from circuit switching to packet switching, enabling diverse new services such as Internet access, Intern...

It is well known that the diffusion of the Internet over society has been faster than that of the traditional telecommunication service such as the telephone. There are some differences between the demand diffusion patterns of telephone services and the Internet as well as among the demand attributes, thus we focus on these differences. With each s...

The notion of knowledge-based economy premises that technological knowledge be created, accumulated and disseminated through the interactive learning among principal actors in the national system. This paper analyzes, from a dynamic perspective, the structure of inter-industrial technological knowledge. Both human-driven disembodied channel and cap...

We investigated the patterns of the technological diffusions of 17 Korean information and telecommunications (IT) innovations by applying various diffusion models, where the Bass model was chosen the most robust one. Although the internal influence dominates diffusion process for most innovations, the external influence was found to be meaningful t...

This paper is a pilot study that expands the definition of e-Business from the perspective of suppliers and constructs a strategic framework, in particular, for telecommunications provider. For this purpose, a structural stratum of the market-demanded e-businesses will be scrutinized first followed by the major strategies of providers, and will be...

Several growth-curve forecasting models are compared with respect to empirical data sets from IT industry of Korea and attempt is made to suggest a case-wise guiding in terms of technology (service) type and data length. It turns out, as expected, no single model consistently outperforms others across all data sets. Instead, for a given data type,...

With the advent of the knowledge-based economy, the inter-industrial flow of technological knowledge is reckoned as the principal determinant of national competitiveness. The mode of knowledge flows, however, is intractably complex. Taking it as a network, this paper aims at providing an inductive taxonomy of industries based on the knowledge flow...

In the open innovation paradigm, R&D collaboration is a good strategy to develop necessary technology effectively in a short period of time. However, though it can yield positive payoffs, it is not without risks especially when partners for collaborative R&D are not selected carefully. With all the importance of partner selection, most of the exist...