As the 21th century has ushered, the knowledge-based society has brought a new paradigm to the international technology order.
Without acquiring unique and comparative advantage in technology development, Korea might fall into a dangerous situation w...
As the 21th century has ushered, the knowledge-based society has brought a new paradigm to the international technology order.
Without acquiring unique and comparative advantage in technology development, Korea might fall into a dangerous situation where it is dependent on the world technology hierarchy.
Therefore, the Korean government is needed to induce the transfer of technologies which are strategically important and comparatively advantageous on the basis of Korea's current technology level. Independent technology development is important for the transfer of essential technologies. There are two ways to embody the strategy for technology development: the acquirement of industrial property rights including patent and the active commercialization of them.
In fact, the number of industrial property applications has been dramatically increased over the past years, ranking Korea one of the top 5 countries in terms of industrial property applications. However, most of patent technologies which were developed with enormous time and money are dormant, not being commercialized for strategic and financial reasons.
Especially small and medium-sized firms with weaker position in the market have difficulty in commercializing their patent technologies due to limited finances and lack of enough securities.
To improve the present situation, a strategy is needed to promote the commercialization of patent technologies, which contains the voluntary participation from private sectors and the maximum exploitation of creativity with government assistance.
And the Korean government should establish a dissemination system which can link the creative patent technologies to actual products and services.
Other policies for promoting the commercialization of dormant patents include the database of dormant patents and would-be investors, the linking system between dormant patent owners and would-be investors through efficient assignment, joint venture, licensing, and other legal system(for example, Technology Transfer Promotion Act) etc.