In 21st century of knowledge-based society, as competition between countries become intense for knowledge preoccupancy, university competitiveness of research and education is expanded to the country competitiveness. After 1980s, National Innovation S...
In 21st century of knowledge-based society, as competition between countries become intense for knowledge preoccupancy, university competitiveness of research and education is expanded to the country competitiveness. After 1980s, National Innovation System has been established by countries in the world with consideration of the university as the core element for the country competitiveness according to the flow of globalization, and the role of university has been expanded to lead economical and industrial developments as a leader of innovative society. Based on mutual cooperation and cooperative learning of the innovation subject, it needs to create clusters of knowledge, human, and social capitals and to form endogenous foundation for growth.
Industry-university-research institute cooperation is mutually cooperative activity between education institutes, government, local autonomous zovernments, research institutes, and industries while the companies and research institutes support the universities and the universities provide good research performance and manpower to achieve the mutual cooperation, establishing the virtuous circle of investment and promoting convergence for win-win. As the practical plans, the directions for enhancing the function of research in the universities and promoting the cooperation between the industries, universities, and research institutes should be suggested, the universities and institutes should be transformed into pioneering research & business development system, and innovative clusters for cooperation and convergence should established by maximally increasing the research capacity of professors researchers.
Currently, manpower interchange between the universities and institutes has been very limited in our country, and thus introduction of the university-research institute professor system in utilization of tangible·intangible holding resources and in cooperation between the universities and public research institutes is considered as an important
policy to use all of the knowledge, human, and social capitals. To promote the university-research institute professor system, strategic promoting plans should be established by each organization. Thus, 「Industry-University Consortium」which has been established in each university since the year of 2003 will play a pivotal role, and it needs to suggest plans for establishment of foundation to settle the university-research institute professor system with the 「Industry-University Consortium」of universities as the center and study the development patterns and specific strategic·institutional support plans of the related organizations. The university-research institute professor system is manpower interchange system securing to perform joint researches in belonging to both organizations of the university and research institute at the same time, and the 「Industry-University Consortium」of university has been established to promote industry-university-research institute cooperation in compliance with Article 25 of 『PROMOTION OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION AND INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION ACT』as supporting organizations.
Scientific Technology in today has been developed to be multidisciplinary studies through convergence of studies, and cooperative network is important as global R&D environment has become megatrend. In 2011, our country has attempted introducing R&D scientific technology policy
of “Global Science Business Belt Project” in the field of basic science, expecting to have positive effect on the university-research institute professor system, cooperative network between the universities and institutes.
Therefore, this study reviews current situation of the industry-university consortium that is established·operated by each university on a nationwide scale to examine the development direction of the characterized industry-university consortiums by universities according to medium·long-term development plans in the 1st service step focusing on R&D cost management.
Also, it overviews the current status of open type innovation of the universities and institutes in the period of ‘convergence and complex R&D’ expanding into the global to create new value·knowledge·market and investigates the effectiveness of the university-research institute professor system in domestic·overseas’ current examples.
Finally, various subordinate systems are rearranged in the context of university, institute and whole country to suggest specific strategic support measures by steps·strategies of research administration in the university, promoting the university-research institute professor system that is differentiated support measures according to choice and concentration of excellent researchers·research groups.