2015 기업의 연구개발투자와 성과

This annual report (from 2009 up to 2015) provides data of RD (2) the listed companies also occupy a significant portion of the RD (3) the RD operation profits are even worse: having slid.down for the past five years. Second, nevertheless, R&D investments are still growing though the rate of growth tends to decline. Third, the number of patents are incrementally rising, both in Korea and in the US. We can draw two Implications from these findings. First, though it is surely good that the listed companies are yet vigorous in R&D, the future is quite unclear given that the resources constraints will become severe if the corporations do not recover from the recent setbacks in business performances. Second, though patents do not increase as fast as R&D investments, it is yet hasty to conclude that R&D efficiency would fall. For patents have cost aspects: the visible costs of application and registration and the invisible costs of revealing business secrets. Given the finding that some sectors that were not active in patent filing show a rapid rise of patent filing recently and above all the filing of US patents, which are obviously more costly and so strategic, tend to rise.