Network Analysis on Green Technology in National Research and Development Projects in Korea

Jae Yun Jeong, Inje Kang, Ki Seok Choi and Byeong-Hee Lee
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Jae Yun Jeong: Department of Science and Technology Management Policy, University of Science and Technology, 217, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Korea
Inje Kang: Department of Science and Technology Management Policy, University of Science and Technology, 217, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Korea
Ki Seok Choi: Department of Science and Technology Management Policy, University of Science and Technology, 217, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Korea
Byeong-Hee Lee: Department of Science and Technology Management Policy, University of Science and Technology, 217, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Korea

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 4, 1-12

Abstract: This study examined how green technology (GT) has evolved recently in the domain of national research and development (R&D) in Korea. The analysis considered social network analysis by using keywords of national R&D projects in environmentally benign (‘green’ in this paper) technologies. Data for analysis were collected from the R&D database of the National Science and Technology Information Service (NTIS). By selecting the official GT category in the NTIS’s database, we gathered 53,896 GT R&D projects from 2011 to 2016 inclusive. By constructing a co-occurrence matrix with keywords, we conducted a centrality analysis (including degree, closeness, betweenness centrality) and visualized the network matrix to display a cluster map. This study presents the following findings: (1) the chronical trends of GT R&D, (2) focused fields of GT R&D, (3) the relations between keywords and GTs, and (4) the characteristics and problems in GT R&D. The paper ends with suggested policy implications to boost national GT R&D and to develop GTs in the future.

Keywords: social network analysis; degree centrality; closeness centrality; betweenness centrality; policy implication; National Science and Technology Information Service (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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