According to the rapidly changing economic, social and technological changes due to Covid-19, it is important to find ways to respond through R&D. In particular, Korea achieved economic growth through government-led R&D, and recently, growth through h...
According to the rapidly changing economic, social and technological changes due to Covid-19, it is important to find ways to respond through R&D. In particular, Korea achieved economic growth through government-led R&D, and recently, growth through harmony with improved private R&D is becoming increasingly important. To respond to this, the government enacted the National R&D Innovation Act and the innovation of the R&D investment system.
In this study, we tried to find the issues that emerged through the enactment of the innovation act and to draw implications. First, the R&D administrative systems of major countries that can respond to Koreas innovation act were examined and related issues were derived. Second, the role of the innovation act from the point of view of the legal system and the issues of the innovation act from the perspective of R&D cooperation as a response to environmental changes were analyzed. Third, issues related to the legalization and operation of the innovation act, the issues of the innovation act from the perspective of industry-university-research, which are major R&D actors, and main issues from the point of view of intellectual property, which can be said to be the main characteristics of the innovation act, were explored and analyzed. Finally, implications were drawn based on these analyzes.
The implications of this study are as follows. First, the role of the Innovation Act needs to be expanded to not only conduct and manage current R&D, but also promote the utilization of outcomes. Second, it is necessary to clarify the main philosophical direction that the innovation act aims. In particular, it is necessary to clearly establish a philosophical standard that distinguishes autonomy and effectiveness. Third, it is necessary to consider how to engage various research and management interests for system improvement, open up the improvement process more, and lead to rational improvement by consensus rather than decision and implementation. Fourth, to further promote convergence researches, it is necessary to review regulations related to joint research and to establish an agreement method for each ministry and department. Lastly, the commercialization of research results should be included in the Innovation Act.