An Analysis on Allophone of Korean

Bae, Seong-Geon; Lim, Byung-Min; Bae, Myung-Jin

doi:10.14257/astl.2016.125.15

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“…One may argue that our data capture only large companies. However, considering that most R&D activities are carried out by large listed companies, which accounted for three-quarters of the total R&D investment in Korea in 2014 (Bae, 2016)), the analysis of listed companies represents knowledge accumulation by Korean companies well.…”

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Technological relatedness: how do firms diversify their technology?

2023

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The principle of relatedness, which helps estimate the affinity between economic activities, suggests that cities, regions, and countries are more likely to undertake new economic activities when they already perform related activities. This empirical principle has been confirmed for various dimensions-cities, regions, and countries-and their activities-developing new technologies, products, and industries. However, the technological diversification of firms is yet unexplored. Is a firm more successful at entering a new technology when it has already accumulated related technologies? Here, we explore this issue using a unique dataset that contains firms' patent data and financial and market information. In particular, we examine Korean firms listed in the Korean stock market that published patents at the patent offices in Korea, Europe, and the United States from 1984 to 2004. We develop a technological relatedness measure to estimate whether a firm has already published patents with similar technologies. We find that firms are more likely to develop a new technology when they already have related technologies. Interestingly, technological relatedness shows an increasing return to related knowledge. We also check the robustness of this effect using propensity score matching and find that the effects of technological relatedness and its increasing return behavior remain significant when controlling for potential confounding effects. These findings extend the concept of relatedness to a firm's technological diversification and show that the development of a firm's technological knowledge is shaped by its technological relatedness.

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confidence: 99%