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본 연구는 우리나라 중소제조업체가 신기술개발을 어떠한 방식으로 수행하고자 하는가를 살펴보는 데 그 목적이 있다. 본 연구주제와 관련한 기존 연구를 살펴보면 주로 거래비용이론에 기초한 연구가 해외학회를 중심으로 다수 진행되어 왔으나 자원기반이론과의 통합적 적용을 통한 실증연구는 매우 드문 편이었다. 무엇보다 국내 중소기업의 핵심자원이라고 할 수 있는 기업가적 역량과 거래비용이론에서 제시하는 핵심변수와의 상호작용이 신기술개발방식 결정에 어떠한 영향을 미치는 가에 관한 연구는 전무하다고 할 수 있다. 본 연구는 이 같은 기존 연구의 한계를 극복하기위하여 작성되었다. 먼저 거래비용이론에서 제시하는 자산특화성, 환경적 불확실성, 기술적 불확실성 등의 3가지 변수가 기술개발방식을 결정하는 데 어떠한 영향을 미치는 지 살펴보았다. 그리고 이들 변수가 자원기반이론에서 제시하는 기업가적 역량과 어떠한 상호작용을 나타내는지 검증해 보았다. 271개의 기술집약적 중소기업(KSIC26)을 대상으로 한 실증분석을 한 결과, 취득하고자 하는 지식이 자산특화적 특성이 강하고 기술적 불확실성이 높을수록 해당기업은 내부화 방식을 통한 기술개발추진을 선호하는 것으로 나타나고 있다. 그러나 응답기업의 기업가적 역량 수준이 높을수록 이 같은 성향은 부(-)의 조절효과를 보이고 있는 것으로 나타나고 있다. 본 연구의 이론적 시사점은 다음과 같다. 먼저, 그 동안 신기술개발을 어떠한 방식으로 수행할 것인가에 대한 이론적 설명이 거래비용이론과 자원기반이론을 중심으로 각각 전개되어 왔으나, 본 연구 결과, 거래비용이론의 이론적 설명력이 자원거래비용이론의 그것보다 더 유효한 것으로 나타나고 있다. 그러나 거래비용이론에서의 핵심 설명변수들이 자원기반이론에서 제시하는 기업가적 역량과 통합적으로 적용될 경우 더 나은 설명력을 제시하고 있음이 판명되었다. 본 연구의 실무적 시사점으로는 무엇보다 자본과 경험이 풍부하지 않은 중소제조업체가 기술개발활동을 외부화 방식으로 추진할 경우 잠재적인 분쟁과 부당한 요구를 어떻게 대처해 나아갈 것이가를 고려해야할 만큼 리스크가 따르고 있음을 인지해야한다. 그러나 해당기업이 충분한 기업가적 마인드와 관계적 역량이 있다면 과감히 타기업과의 협력을 모색하는 것도 바람직한 방안이 될 수 있다. 마지막으로 지식방식을 위해 선택한 방식에 제도 환경적 요소가 고려되지 않은 것이 본 연구의 한계점으로 남아 있고, 선택방식이 어떠한 기업성과를 가져왔는지 확인하는 것이 향후 연구과제로 남아 있다.

This study investigated what factors influence small and medium Korean manufacturing firms in determining their technology development methods in pursuit of competitive advantages. There are two major limitations in this realm of inquiry. Firstly, the transaction costs perspective used to be a predominant theoretical approach in the field. However, questions have been raised regarding the explanatory power of the transaction cost perspective due to its weak applicability in some decision contexts, such as the technology development method decisions. Some have recommended that several theoretical perspectives be used in a contingent manner to enrich the explanatory power of the transaction cost approach. That is, several complimentary theoretical arguments can be adopted. Secondly, although small South Korean manufacturing firms are exhibiting growth in technology development activities, they have thus far received relatively little attention from academic researchers. Rather, researchers have mostly concerned themselves with the innovation activities of large multinational firms. An integrated theoretical approach to the use of the innovation activities of the Korean manufacturing small firms was pursued in this study to overcome the aforementioned limitation. Transaction cost (TC) and resource based (RB) perspectives were adopted as major theoretical approaches for our study. These two perspectives were selected because they represent the current leading views in the field. In addition, these two perspectives provide contrasting views of modal choice, which motivated us to combine and integrate them. Relying on the TC and RB perspectives in a contingent way, this study identified three major factors as core determinants for technology development methods: (1) specialized asset investment; (2) environmental uncertainty; and (3) technological uncertainty. Meanwhile, this study also suggested entrepreneurial capability as a moderating factor. Using these variables, a total of six hypotheses were proposed for empirical examination. For the empirical test, this study targeted South Korean small and medium enterprises(SMEs) in manufacturing sectors, mostly knowledge-intensive ones with the Korean Standard Industrial Classification (KSIC) 26. Potential subject SMEs were identified using selection guidelines appropriate for the purpose of the research. Of 1,021 Korean KSIC26 SMEs identified, 271 firms responded to the questionnaire survey (26.5% response rate). The data obtained from these 271 Korean SMEs were submitted to logistic regression analysis to test research hypotheses. The analysis revealed that respondent firms preferred an internal technology development approach when they perceived high levels of specialized asset investment and technological uncertainty. However, this preference was weaker for firms who possessed strong entrepreneurial capabilities. Perceived environmental uncertainty was not critically influential to choice of technology development mode, and entrepreneurial capability did not have a moderating effect on the influence environmental uncertainty. There are theoretical and practical implications of these results, Although the TC and the RB perspective may each form a good theoretical basis for understanding the pattern of technology development methods decision, combining them provides more powerful explanation than what could be achieved by either single theoretical view. In particular, this study found that the RB perspective was specially important in the case of small firms with an entrepreneurial strategic orientation. Those small firms were inherently confronted with their newness and smallness. The newness and smallness leads those firms to be more inclined to cooperate with other companies to learn and complement necessary resources and know-how. Hence entrepreneurial strategic orientation moderated how specialized asset investment and technological uncertainty influence the small firm’s choice of technology development method. Additionally, the present findings provide practical guidelines for Korean SMEs who may lack previous experience with choosing the optimal technology development strategy for innovation. For instance, these findings suggest small firms should be cautious about choosing an external technology development method if they are not highly technically confident and/or doing so would require an intensively specialized investment. However, small firms that possess a substantial external network and have an entrepreneurial strategic orientation can purse an external technology development method with confidence. There is a noteworthy limitation of this research that should be mentioned. That is, this work did not consider the impact of institutional factors. Moreover, questions remain regarding the outcomes of using knowledge acquisition methods.

제약된 자원을 보유하고 있는 기업에게 혁신활동은 경쟁력을 향상시킴으로써 지속적인 성장의 원동력이 될 수 있으므로, 급변하는 경영환경에서 국내기업의 혁신활동은 필수불가결한 요소로 인식되어 왔다. 그러나 보유한 자원의 부족과 정보의 비대칭으로 인해서 많은 기업들은 정부로부터의 정책지원을 통해 혁신활동을 강화하려는 경향이 있다. 본 연구는 기업의 기술개발에 대한 정부의 간접적 수단으로서 조세지원과 비조세지원이 기업의 혁신활동 에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 규명하고자, 과학기술정책연구원(STEPI)에서 제공하는 2014년 제조업에 포함 되는 기업의 기술혁신활동 조사표를 사용하였으며 표본의 선택편의의 문제를 해결하고자 성향점수매칭 방법 을 이용하였다. 실증분석 결과를 살펴보면, 전체기업을 대상으로 한 분석의 결과에서는 조세감면과 사업화 자금지원은 수 혜를 받은 기업과 그렇지 않은 기업 간의 차이가 유의한 것으로 나타났다. 벤처기업과 이노비즈형 기업을 대상으로 한 분석의 결과에서는 조세감면, 사업화 자금지원, 정부기술지원은 유의미한 영향을 미치지만 기술 정보제공은 유의미한 영향을 제공하지 않는 것으로 나타났으며, 벤처기업과 이노비즈형 기업이 아닐 경우에 는 단지 사업화 자금지원만이 유의미한 영향을 나타내고 있음을 알 수 있다 연구결과를 토대로 정부의 기술개발 관련 지원은 일반적으로 벤처 및 이노비즈형 기업군에서 기업의 혁 신활동을 증대시킨다는 것을 알 수 있다. 다시 말해서 정부의 지원은 기술력을 보유한 벤처기업과 이노비즈 형 기업들의 혁신활동에 보다 효과적이라는 사실을 제시하고 있다. 이러한 연구결과의 차이는 기업의 특성 에 따라 정부지원의 중요성이 다르게 인식될 수 있다는 것으로 풀이된다. 즉, 기술력을 보유하였지만 부족한 재원으로 인해 벤처 및 이노비즈형 기업에게 정부의 지원이 보다 요구된다고 볼 수 있기 때문이다.

Innovation activities can be an engine of successive development as increasing competitiveness of the firms with limited resources, therefore innovation activities of domestic firms has been acknowledged as a necessary factor in rapidly changeable business environment. However, many firms would strengthen innovation activities by government support because of limited resources and information asymmetry. To investigate the effects of both tax support and non-tax support as the indirect method of government on the innovation activities of firms, this study used the 2014 innovation activity table from STEPI, and propensity score matching method was explored to overcome the problem of sample selection bias. In the empirical result for using all firms, tax reduction and funding support for commercialization have the significant impact on the difference between firms with funding and non-funding firms. In using only venture and innobiz firms, tax reduction, funding support for commercialization, and government technology support have the significant impact, while only funding support for commercialization has the significant impact when the firms not included in venture and innobiz firms were used. From the study results, government support for technology development has promoted the firms’ innovation activities. In other words, government support is, in general, effective to either venture or innobiz firm for its innovation activities. This dissimilar result is due to perception difference for importance of government support in accordance with the firm characteristic. That is, government support is needed to either venture or innobiz firm with limited finances.

SME is a major company to keep employment in Korea and highly depends on large company as vendor. R&D is critical to keep its position under the global competition. Government makes a policy to support SME R&D investement. We reviewed SMBA(Small and Medium Business Administration) policy for SME R&D and try to find alternatives. One of the alternatives is to increase a budget for large and SME co-development program.

This study with the aim to develop a system that can be objectively measured and evaluated as a scientific support and of R&D. To this end, this study aimed at companies participating in the development of national technology transfer support program for SMEs examined the factors affecting performance. By developing metrics that meet the business objectives refer to the applicable national and international case studies and literature reviews, etc. In order to achieve the systematization of technology evaluation index, which was selected indicators. To evaluate the weight through the duality comparing selected indicators in order to take advantage of the AHP analysis conducted targeted surveys.

최근 들어 산업화된 국가에서 승용차의 대수는 비약적으로 증가하고 있으며 이러한 추세는 당분간 지속될 것으로 예상된다. 따라서 사용 후 폐기되는 자동차의 대수 또한 증가할 것이며 이를 재활용하는 문제가 심각히 제기되고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 2000 년 9 월 유럽에서 제정된 폐기 자동차의 처리에 관한 규제 조항이 독일에서는 2002 년 7 월 1 일부터 법률로서의 효력을 지니게 되었다. 이 법률 제정의 장기적 목표는 차후 10 년 내에 폐 자동차를 처리하는 과정에서 발생하는 잔류물을 현재의 30 Wt.%에서 5 Wt.% 미만으로 줄이는데 있다. 따라서 차후 자동차를 구성하는 재료들에 대한 좀더 혁신적이고도 효율적인 재활용 기술들이 개발될 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 자동차 생산 산업에서 디자인 공정은 계속하여 변화되고 있는 바, 이는 자동차 운행 시 연료를 절감하기 위한 선택적 장치와 새로운 기술적인 해결책에 대한 요구가 강하게 제기되고 있기 때문이다. 따라서 자동차 제조에 사용되는 재료로서 알루미늄과 플라스틱 등과 같은 가벼운 재료들의 사용량은 증가하고 있으며 철과 같은 무거운 재료들은 그 사용량이 점차 감소하고 있다. 그런데 자동차 구성 재료들 가운데 플라스틱류는 흔히 합성된 상태로 사용되고 있으므로 이를 기계적 방법에 의해 각각의 구성 플라스틱 성분으로 분리하기는 불가능하다. 이러한 이유로 인해 폐 자동차를 구성하는 물질들의 효율적 재활용을 위해서는 재활용하기에 용이한 상태로 자동차를 디자인하여 제조하는 것이 필요하다고 할 수 있다. 이와 함께 폐 자동차 재활용 율을 향상시키는데 관한 규제를 만족시키기 위해서는 자동차 생산업체와 재활용 산업체의 통합적 협동체제가 요구된다.

The quantity of passenger cars in industrial countries has been significantly increased in recent years. According to prognoses,this tendency is likely to continue in the forthcoming future. As a direct consequence, an increase of End-of-Life-Vehicles (ELV)will confront us with the problem of “ELV-Recycling”. In order to cope with this situation, the European regulation for the treat-ment of End-of-Life-Vehicles (09/2000) has been transferred to national law in Germany (ELV-Regulation from 1 July 2002).For that reason, there is a need for innovative and more efficient recycling techniques tailored to future materials in automobiles.The design process at automotive industry is continuously changing due to the strong demand on optional equipment and newtechnical solutions for fuel saving. Light materials, such as aluminum and plastics, consequently become more important andcause a decrease of ferrous metals. Since plastic materials are often used as compounds, a separation into initial material typesby means of mechanical recycling methods is not possible. For that reason, efficient recycling can only be realized by introducingrecycling-friendly car designs. In the end an integrated approach of auto makers and recycling industry is of decisive significancefor the fulfillment of future regulations.

The field of recycling for waste electronic components, which is the typical example of an urban mine, requires the development of useful sorting techniques. In this study, a sorter based on image identification by deep learning was developed to select electronic components into four groups. They were recovered from waste printed circuit boards and should be separated to depend on the difference after treatment. The sorter consists of a workstation with GPU, camera, belt conveyor, air compressor. A small piece (less than 3.5 cm) of electronic components on the belt conveyor (belt speed: 6 cm/s) was taken and learned as teaching data. The accuracy of the image identification was 96% as kinds and 99% as groups. The optimum condition of sorting was determined by evaluating accuracies of image identification and recovery rates by blowdown when changing the operating condition such as belt speed and blowdown time of compressed air. Under the optimum condition, the accuracy of image classification in groups was 98.7%. The sorting rate was more than 70%.

Chinese TBM industry has rapidly developed over the past decade, while China can beregarded as the most remarkable TBM market in the world. After sixty years of development, China already has a complete set of technologies in all domains of TBM, including design, manufacturing, operation and tunnel construction, which are still evolving. The growth of the technology is a result of continuous research and development by the industry and academia under the strongly support from Chinese government. Inorder to complete independent technology development and play a leading role in the global TBM market, the strategy of China has a good reference value for Korea. The history of TBM technology in China was reviewed, and the major research projects and achievements were summarized. Finally, through the implications from the Chinese case, the research and development of TBM technology in Korea and its future research topics were discussed.

In this paper, an electric tram system with a wireless power transfer system based on SMFIR technology is presented. The detailed technology of power-line infra, regulator, and pick-up device is described for train application, respectively. Furthermore, implementation and experimental results for wireless power transfer electric tram are presented.

다양한 분야 간 기술 융복합화와 함께 빠르게 변화하고 있는 오늘날의 사업 환경에서, 신기술 개발 및 기술 사업화 역량은 중소기업의 생존과 성장에 매우 중요하다. 본 연구는 한국의 중소기업으로부터 수집된 2,000개의 데이터를 사용하여 개방형 혁신의 관점을 기반으로 개발된 연구 모형을 실증적으로 검증한다. 본 연구의 실증 분석 결과는 중소기업의 외부 기술협력 네트워크와 외부 정보 네트워크의 다양성이 중소기업의 기술 사업화 역량에 정(+)의 영향을 미치며, 이러한 정(+)의 영향은 중소기업의 신기술 개발 역량에 의하여 완전 매개 된다는 것을 보여준다. 이러한 실증 분석 결과를 바탕으로, 본 연구는 특히 기업가정신을 추구하는 중소기업의 경영자들의 관점에서 의미 있는 시사점을 제공한다.

In today’s rapidly-changing business context with technology convergence among various fields, new technology development and technology commercialization capabilities are very important to the survival and growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This study develops the research model based on the open innovation perspective and empirically tests it by using 2,000 data from SMEs in South Korea. The empirical analysis result reveals that SMEs’ external technology collaboration network and external information network diversities have positive effects on their technology commercialization capability, and these effects are fully mediated by their new technology development capability. Based on these results, the study provides meaningful implications especially in terms of SMEs’ managers who pursue entrepreneurship.

Artificial insemination and embryo transfer is one of the most important factors affecting to the production of fawn from deer nuclear transfer in the field of deer farms. This study* was conducted to establish the production technology of nuclear transfered embryo in deer. For estrus synchronization or superovulation tretments in flower deer and elk, each 10 does were inserted into the vagina for 14 days with CIDR (Pfizer New Zealand Ltd., NZ) for elk and Ring-CIDR (Bioculture Co., Ltd., Korea) for flower deer, and then those inserted devices were removed. The estrus synchronization of each 6 does were induced by the intramuscular injection of PGF2α (25 mg/head) and PG600 (hCG 200IU + PMSG 400IU, Intevet, Holland). Then, the superovulation of each 4 does of flower deer and elk was induced by additional injection of FSH (200 mg/ head) twice with an interval of 24 hours , respectively. Follicular oocytes were collected from each 2 does superovulated after 48 hours since the injection of PG600 and FSH. In the meantime, the ovarian response and the number of the collected ovarian follicles were investigated with the surgical operations. As a result, the average number of the collected ovarian follicles were 8.5 and 9.0 in flower deer and elk, respectively. The ovarian follicles collected from each two does were cultured in vitro for 48 hours with m-DMEM medium, and then the cell fusion was carried out after the nuclear transfer by the antler cell. As a result, 5 out of 18 ovarian follicles collected from 2 elk does were reached on the MII stage, but there was no generation resulting from the nuclear transferred embryos by the antler cell after enucleation. In 2 flower does, 7 out of 17 ovarian follicles were reached to the MII stage, but one of them was developed to parthenogenetic embryo as well despite a case of fusion from the nuclear transferred embryo. Embryos were collected in a surgical way on the 7th day after artificial insemination, numbers of average embryos collected were 2.5 and 3.0 in each 2 flower deer and elk does superovulated, respectively. The collected two embryos were transplanted to each 2 does synchronized. As a result, a head of fawn was produced from only one elk doe, where as a head of fawn were delivered from one out of 4 elk does artificial inseminated. Given these findings, we consider that more or less of problems might have occurred in vitro culture system of ovarian follicles in the production of nuclear transfered deer embryos. In addition, the greatest reason why both the aetificial insemination and embryo transfer failed was considered attributable to stress due to anesthesia and catching.

Large wind turbine generators with high temperature superconductors (HTS) are in incessant development because of their advantages such as weight and volume reduction and the increased efficiency compared with conventional technologies. In addition, nowadays the wind turbine market is growing in a function of time, increasing the capacity and energy production of the wind farms installed and increasing the electrical power for the electrical generators installed. As a consequence, it is raising the wind power energy contribution for the global electricity demand. In this study, a forecast of wind energy development will be firstly emphasized, then it continue presenting a recent status of the technology development of large scale HTSG for wind power followed by an explanation of HTS wire trend, cryogenics cooling systems concept, HTS magnets field coil stability and other technological parts for optimization of HTS generator design – operating temperature, design topology, field coil shape and level cost of energy, as well. Finally, the most relevant projects and designs of HTS generators specifically for offshore wind power systems are also mentioned in this study.

기업의 신기술 개발 역량은 기술 융합 및 발전과 함께 빠르게 변화하고 있는 사업 환경의 치열한 경쟁 속에서 성공적인 제품혁신과 프로세스 혁신을 창출하는 데에 필수적이다. 본 연구는 개방형 혁신의 관점에서 외부 정보 네트워크의 다양성이 중소 벤처기업의 신기술 개발 역량에 미치는 직접 효과와 이러한 직접 효과에 미치는 제품 기획 역량의 매개 효과에 대한 연구 모형을 개발한다. 683개의 중소 벤처기업 데이터를 사용하여 최소 자승 회귀 분석을 실시한 통계적 연구 모형 검증 결과를 통해, 본 연구는 다음과 같은 2가지의 주요 연구 결과를 제공 한다. 첫째, 중소 벤처기업의 외부 정보 네트워크의 다양성은 신기술 개발 역량에 정(+)의 영향을 미친다. 둘째, 중소 벤처기업의 제품 기획 역량은 외부 정보 네트워크의 다양성이 신기술 개발 역량에 미치는 정(+)의 영향을 완전 매개한다.

Enterprises’ new technology development capability is essential for creating successful product innovation and process innovation in the heavy competition in the business context changing quickly with technology convergence and development. Based on the open innovation perspective, this research develops a research model about the direct effect of small and medium venture companies’ exterior information network heterogeneity on their new technology development capability and the mediating impact of their product planning capability on this direct effect. This study statistically tests the research model by using the ordinary least squares regression with the 683 small and medium venture companies, providing two major findings as follows. One finding is that small and medium venture companies’ exterior information network heterogeneity positively impacts their new technology development capability. The other finding is that small and medium venture companies’ product planning capability perfectly mediates the positive effect of their exterior information network heterogeneity on their new technology development capability.

차세대 이동통신 관련 경쟁기업의 기술적 역량분석을 위해 특허정보 분석을 실시하였다. 특허정보의 분석 방법으로는 출원인 분석, 기술분류 분석, 지표분석 등 여러 분석방법을 활용하였다. 경쟁기업의 기술적 역량분석 1단 계로 특허활동도(Patent Activity:PA)가 높은 출원인을 선별하였고, 2단계로 기술자립도(Technological Independence:TI) 가 높은 기술분류를 선별하였다. 그리고 1단계와 2단계 결과를 매칭하여 특허활동도가 높은 주요 출원인 중에서 기술 자립도가 높은 기술분류에 대한 포트폴리오를 작성하였다. 이와 같은 과정을 통해 경쟁기업간에 집중적으로 연구되고 있는 중요 기술 포트폴리오를 분석할 수 있다. 이 분석 결과는 기업의 R&D계획, 특허전략 수립 등 전략적 R&D 관 리 수행을 돕는 역할을 할 것이다.

Patent information analysis has been carried out for technological capability analysis of competitors relating to next generation mobile communication. Various analysis methods, such as applicant analysis, technology classification analysis, indicator analysis and the like have been utilized as a method of analyzing patent information. As a first step for the technological capability analysis of competitors, applicants having high patent activity(PA) were selected, and as a second step therefor, technology classifications showing high technological independence (TI) were selected. Furthermore, portfolios for technology classifications showing high technological independence in the patents of main applicants having high patent activity by matching results the first and second steps together were prepared. Through such a process, portfolios for important technologies which have been concentrically researched by competitors could be analyzed. Accordingly, the present analysis results will help to carry out strategic R&D management, such as the establishment of company R&D plans and patent strategies.

본 연구는 중소기업의 외부 기술 정보 네트워크에 대한 연구 흐름의 깊이를 더하기 위해 외부 기술 정보네트워크의 다양성이 중소기업의 기술개발로 인한 매출 증대에 미치는 직접적인 영향 뿐만 아니라, 이러한 직접인 영향에 대한 생산성 향상의 매개 효과와 최고 경영자가 주도하는 기술 개발의 조절 효과를 실증적으로 분석한다. 2,200개의 한국 중소기업 데이터를 사용한 최소자승 회귀분석을 바탕으로 다음과 같은 결과를 본 연구는 제공한다. 첫째, 중소기업의 외부 기술 정보 네트워크의 다양성은 기술 개발로 인한 매출 성장에 정(+)의 영향을 미친다. 둘째, 중소기업의 생산성 향상은 외부 기술 정보 네트워크의 다양성이 매출 성장에 미치는 이러한 정(+) 영향을 부분 매개한다. 셋째, 최고경영자가 주도하는 기술개 발은 중소기업의 외부 기술 정보 네트워크의 다양성이 매출 성장에 미치는 정(+)의 영향을 조절한다.

This research empirically analyzes not only the direct impact of the external technological information network diversity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on the sales growth from their technology development but also the mediating impact of their productivity improvement and the moderating effect of the technology development driven by CEO on this direct impact in order to deepen the research stream on SMEs’ external technological information network. Based on the ordinary least squares regression by using 2,200 data of South Korean SMEs, this study reveals the three findings. First, SMEs’ external technological information network diversity positively influences their sales growth from technology development. Second, SMEs’ productivity improvement partially mediates this positive influence of the external technological information network diversity. Third, SMEs’ technology development driven by CEO moderates the positive influence.

New technology development capability plays a key role in making small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) increase their innovation performance, such as in product or process innovation. To examine the influencing factors of SMEs' new technology development capability, this study empirically analyzes the mediating effects of SMEs' process design capability and product interior design capability on the positive association between their external information network diversity and new technology development capability. This study performs the ordinary least squares regression on a sample of 2,000 South Korean SMEs. Results reveal that SMEs' process design capability fully mediates, and product interior design capability partially mediates the positive association between the external information network diversity and new technology development capability.