Building the national ICT frontier: The case of Korea

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 249-277

  Shin, Juneseuk ^a   Park, Yongtae ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Brokerage; Centrality; National ICT frontier; Patent citation

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

BROKERAGE MEASURES; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT); NATIONAL FRONTIER; PATENT CITATION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

BENCHMARKING; EXPORT; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA;

EID: 34248574844     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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