Research interests

Innovation Strategy; Technology Innovation Management; Technology Diffusion & Adoption; Consumer Preference Analysis; Behavioral Economics; Government Innovation Policy

Skills

AHP using Python; Econometric analysis using Stata (e.g. OLS, DID, Structural Equation Model, Panel Model, Discrete choice model); Meta-frontier analysis using Matlab; Stochastic frontier analysis using C; Crawling using Python;, Topic modeling, and Machine learning using R; Word2vec; BERT

Experience

2023                     Member of the Future Generation Committee, KOSIME

2020 - present     Research Professor at School of Business and Technology Management (BTM), KAIST

2020 - present    Senior Researcher at ISPI (Innovation Strategy and Policy Institute)

2020                     Visiting Professor at Graduate School of Technology Management, Kyung Hee university

2018 - 2020         Senior Researcher at BTM and CISP (Center for Innovation Strategy and Policy), KAIST

2018 - 2019         Researcher at Engineering Research Institute, Seoul National University

2014                     Trainee at the STP (Science and technology policy), STI (Science, Technology and Innovation), OECD in Paris, France

2009                     Internship at Medical school, Seoul National University, Korea

 SSCI Journal Publications

2023           Study on Autonomous Vehicle Industry Policy in the Era of Digital Transformation: Methodologically based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process, Reserach Policy, Impact Factor: 10.4, FT 50 journal, under review

2023            Navigating Autonomous Vehicle Market Dynamics: Strategies for Manufacturers and Government based on Forecasting, Reserach Policy, Impact Factor: 10.4, FT 50 journal, under revision

2023         Innovation Paradox: Exploring AI Adoption and Firm Resilience, Strategic Management Journal, Impact Factor: 12.2, FT 50 journal, under revision 

2023     Formulating an Industrial Policy Agenda for Autonomous Vehicles in the Digital Transformation Era using the Mini-Delphi Method, Science and Public Policy, under review 

2023       Positive Social Comparison Mechanism based on Social Comparison Theory: Independency and Interdependency on SNS in Younger Generation in Korea, Journal of Consumer Behavior, under revision 

2022               The different government support effects on emerging and mature ICT sectors, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 174(121253), Impact Factor: 10.884, Ranked‘1’ in JCR specific area

2022                Does diversity make collaborative subsidies effective? ICT sector in Korea, Industry and Innovation, 29(1), 1-24, Impact Factor: 4.674, Ranked '3' (Innovation) in the 2021 CABS Academic Journal Guide

2022                  Heterogeneous attitudes toward autonomous vehicle: Evaluation of consumer acceptances for vehicle automation technology using a latent class approach, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 1-16

2021               The Effect of Political and Economic Uncertainty on the Cryptocurrency Market. Finance Research Letters, 39(101621), Impact factor: 9.848, Ranked’1’ in JCR specific area.

2020              Relationship between media coverage of depression-related crimes and the number of people who visit a psychiatrist for depression. Psychiatry Research, 284, Impact Factor: 11.3, Ranked’7’ in JCR Psychiatry area.

2018                 The effect of online platform maturity on the efficiency of offline industry. Telematics and Informatics, 35(1), 114-121, Impact Factor: 9.14, Ranked ‘4’ in JCR specific area

KCI Journal Publications

2020             The effect of the original technology possession and open innovation on the firm efficiency: focusing on Korean ICT SMEs, Innovation studies, 15(2), 151-175

2020               SNS Social Comparison Satisfaction Mechanism: based on User's Independence and Interdependence Propensity, The Journal of the Korea Contents Association, 20(9), 238-248

2020                The effect of opinion leader characteristics change on consumer behavior with advent of the mobile payment service, Global Business Administration Review, 17(5), 166-187

Books and Reports

2023              Global Competition for Sustainable AI Chip Innovation Ecosystem, Clarivate and ISPI (Innovation Strategy and Policy Institute), ISBN: 979 - 11 - 970135 - 8 – 4
https://discover.clarivate.com/KAIST_ISPI_Report_EN_2023?campaignname=KAIST_AI_Report_Retention_AG_APAC_Korea_2023 

2022           Analysis of Domestic Research Achievements of Ph.D.s abroad (외국박사학위 취득자의 국내 연구성과 분석) in Korean, issue report of National Research Foundation of Korea, ISSN 2586-1131,
https://www.nrf.re.kr/cms/board/library/view?menu_no=419&o_menu_no=&page=1&nts_no=188984&nts_cat=&search_type=NTS_TITLE&search_keyword=%EC%99%B8%EA%B5%AD%EB%B0%95%EC%82%AC%ED%95%99%EC%9C%84+%EC%B7%A8%EB%93%9D%EC%9E%90%EC%9D%98+%EA%B5%AD%EB%82%B4+%EC%97%B0%EA%B5%AC%EC%84%B1%EA%B3%BC+%EB%B6%84%EC%84%9D&nts_cat= 

2022              Research trends of Ph.D.s abroad by country and field of degree acquisition (외국에서 박사를 취득한 사람들의 학위 취득 국가 및 분야로 알아보는 연구 트렌드)  in Korean, issue report of National Research Foundation of Korea, ISSN 2586-1131
https://www.nrf.re.kr/cms/board/library/view?menu_no=419&o_menu_no=&page=1&nts_no=188107&nts_cat=REPORT_L_03&search_type=NTS_TITLE&search_keyword=&nts_cat=REPORT_L_03 

2021           The Innovation Landscape of AI – The global competition to build a successful AI ecosystem, 2021.12.,Clarivate and ISPI (Innovation Strategy and Policy Institute), https://discover.clarivate.com/AI_Innovation_Landscape_Report_download

2021                Artificial Intelligence Today 2021 – Who is leading AI?, Clarivate and CISP in Korean, http://cifs.kaist.ac.kr/boards/view/notice_en/16

2021                The resilient growth (탄력성장), Smartbooks, in Korean, ISBN: 9791190238403

2014               Public-private Partnerships in Biomedical Research and Health Innovation for Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers, No. 20, OECD Publishing, Paris. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5js36rc8wwbt-en

Working papers

2023                     Motivation Reinforcement, Social Media, and Information Acquisition, Journal of Consumer behavior, under review

2023                 SNS Social Comparison Satisfaction Mechanism Based on Independence and Interdependence, Journal of Consumer behavior, under review

Working paper   Team composition and startups survival

Working paper   Dynamics of government and the society (using Word2vec and BERT)

Working paper   The effect of the First R&D with Research Policy Editor (one of financial times 50 journals)

Working paper   The expertise knowledge can be harmful for Bio-tech start-ups survival

Participating Research

2021- current       Science of Science Policy, University’s Best Research Institute Project, NRF (National Research Foundation of Korea) and Ministry of Education

2018-2021           Industrial future strategy for globalization and balanced economic growth of Korea: Centering on a New Technology Innovation Paradigm, SSK, NRF

2017-2018           Direction of national economic growth based on reference point: micro level approach with Libertarian Paternalism to induce macro change, Ministry of          Science and Technology (Ministry of Science and Technology-)

2016                     ITPP, Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning)

2014                     Public-Private Partnerships in Biomedical Research and Health Innovation for Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias, OECD

2013                     Smart Media Policy Research, ICT and Future Planning (Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning)

Teaching (Lecture)

2021 - present     Lecture Probability and Statistics, KAIST

2020 – 2021        Management Principle, Kyung Hee university

2019 - 2019         Convergence Management, Hanbat National University

Awards

2023                       Best paper, 2023 Spring Academic Conference, Korea Society of Innovation, A study on the autonomous Vehicle Industrial Policy Agenda in the Era of           Digital Transformation through Mini-Delphi Method

2021                       Best paper, 60th anniversary global SME conference, IBK (industrial Bank of Korea), A study on SME value evaluation factors based on machine learning       for SME investment

2018                        Best paper, 6th Korea Media Panel conference, KISDI

2013                        Best paper, 12th Korean Physiological Society

SCI Journal Publications

2013                      An essential role of PI(4,5)P2 for maintaining the activity of the transient receptor potential canonical (TRPC)4β, Pflugers Arch - Eur J Physiol; 465:1011–       1021

2013                      Activation of TRPC4β by Gαi subunit increases Ca(2+) selectivity and  controls  neurite morphogenesis in cultured hippocampal neuron, Cell calcium;            54:307-319

2012                     The roles of G proteins in the activation of TRPC4 and TRPC5 transient receptor potential channels, CHANNELS; 6:5, 1-11

2012                     Gs cascade regulates canonical transient receptor potential 5 (TRPC5) through cAMP mediated intracellular Ca2+ release and ion channel trafficking,            Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications; 421: 105–111

Academic presentations

2021                     60th anniversary global SME conference, IBK (industrial Bank of Korea)

                                Title: A study on SME evaluation factors for SME investment based on machine learning,

2013                     Biophysical Society annual meeting, February 2 - 6, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

2012                     Korean physiology society annual meeting, October 24~26, Busan, Korea

2012                     International Ion Channel conference, August 24~27, The Shilla Hotel Jeju, Korea

Media

2023                     Asia Economics, Where have all the Korean geniuses gone? https://n.news.naver.com/article/277/0005213593

References

Wonjoon Kim

                         Professor, School of Business and Technology Management, KAIST Bldg. N22, 291, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea;
Email: wonjoon.kim@kaist.edu
Vice President, Management and industry research, Samsung global research, Republic of Korea

Daeho Lee

                         Professor, Department of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Sungkyunkwan University, 25-2 Sungkyunwan-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea;
Email: daeho.lee@skku.edu

Junseok Hwang

                        Professor, Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea; Email: junhwang@snu.ac.kr

Jeong-Dong Lee

                        Professor, Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea; Email: leejd@snu.ac.kr

Changjun Lee

                       Professor, Department of MEDIA & SOCIAL INFORMATICS, hanyang University 55, Hanyangdaehak-ro, Sangnok-gu, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do 15588,          Republic of Korea, changjunlee@hanyang.ac.kr

Insuk So

                   Professor at Department of Physiology, Seoul National University, College of Medicine 28 Yongon-Dong, Chongno-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, E-mail: insuk@snu.ac.kr