Awareness on Open R and D of the Concerned Parties and Proposal for the Future

Open innovation refers to 'innovation activities that maximize application of technology by speeding up the technological innovation and purposefully externalizing the internal technology by diversifying the source of innovation through active usage of outside ideas and technology.' In other words, it is the businesses' actions of innovation that reduce the time and cost for R&D by applying diverse outside sources of technology and not internal. This paper attempts to 1) research and analyze the awareness of internal researchers and outside parties on open R&D and 2) suggest a desirable path for open R&D which improves productivity and collaboration among industry, university and institute. The biggest obstacle to openness in the survey turned out to be 'lack of disclosed information,' which calls for a need to reset the standards of information disclosure and change of awareness that consider technology security. I would like to suggest the following to push for more open R and D and improve achievements. First of all, a clear understanding on open innovation is needed. It is imperative that the members know well about what open innovation is and why it is needed, and how to go through with it. Second, policy and system-wise, the policy direction of researchers for open innovation should be included in regulations, guidelines and procedures. To this end, one should consider including the open R and D (including internal cooperation) performance in organizational and individual evaluation indexes. Third is about disclosing the information. The status of internal manpower, physical and technological assets and information on outside organizations should be systematically disclosed at the right time for the members