DongKyu Won

Growth of a platform business model as an entrepreneurial ecosystem and its effects on regional development

ABSTRACT This paper analyses the dynamics of platform business models as an entrepreneurial ecosystem and its effects on regional development. Here, we seek to answer the following research questions: (1) What effects do platform business models have on regional development? (2) What factors and structures affect the dynamics of platform business models? (3) How can we describe the dynamics of platform business models in app stores and hotel-booking industries? To answer these questions, the authors first analysed two platform entrepreneurial ecosystems in the smartphone app store industry (Google Play’s Android market and Apple’s App Store) and two ecosystems in the hotel-booking industry (Hotels.com and Booking.com). Second, we analysed the effects of platforms as entrepreneurial ecosystems on the regional development of Daegu Metropolitan City. We used in-depth interview methods with a semi-structured questionnaire, system dynamics (SD) simulation, a literature review, and a statistical analysis as research methods. The results of these analyses yielded the following findings. First, platform business models as economic ecosystems motivate a change of regional development from focused areas to multiple areas, from a hierarchical structure of firms to a network of diverse firms, and from scope and scale economy-based firms leading regional development to creative economy-based firms leading regional development. Second, we identified three category factors that were important in a platform ecosystem, and built up and simulated causal and SD models of these factors. Third, we found that the dynamics of platform ecosystems differ from platform to platform because the openness of platforms produces different effects on firms according to the industry to which they belong.

The implication of ANT (Actor-Network-Theory) methodology for R&D policy in open innovation paradigm

ABSTRACT Based on Actor-Network-Theory (ANT), this articles aims to analyse the origins and development of graphene R&D policies in Korea. At first, we have investigated the formation and variation of various actors through the application of the four steps of “translation” of ANT which is process of an actor aggregation: problematisation, interessement, enrolment, and mobilisation. Furthermore, we select three latent variables which represent the hybrid of networks, just like, media attention, government investment, and R&D achievements and look at the interaction of them with Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling. In conclusion, this study presents a new research methodology that simulates ANT in connection with actual model construction and provides interesting implications that the media public sphere needs to be diversified and discussion of obstacles to rebel against the graphene network needs to be abundant.

A Study on the Regional Speciality of the S&T Outcomes in Korea

The advance of science and technology becomes the nerves of the development of economy and industry of our future in the regional level as well as in the national and international level. In Korea, it has been more than 10 years since local governments launched, and they are strategically fostering their specialized regional industries. Both the central government and the regional governments prepare and execute policies to foster specialized regional industries. Though there are many kinds of methods to analyze the outcomes of science and technology of region, in this paper, we measure the outcomes of science and technology of region by applying an informetric analysis on the SCIE papers and USPA patents. To seek for the regional speciality, we analyze the total national outcomes and the regional outcomes of S&T activities in Korea.