PUBLICATION

2025

1. Park, S., Baek, C., & Lee, J. D. (2024). How dynamic have the returns to education been with technological change? A case study from 1998 to 2021. Applied Economics Letters, 32(15), 2229–2233. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2024.2332565

2. Jeong, D., & Lee, J. D. (2025). Mapping product development trajectories: product citation network. Scientometrics, 130, 4667–4696. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05395-y

3. Lee, S., Lee, J. D., & He, Y. (2025). Exaptation: Unveiling the Potential for Technological Innovation. Scientometrics, 130, 1-21. (online) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05362-7

4. He, Y., & Lee, J. D. (2025). Small but not least changes: The art of creating disruptive innovations. Journal of Informetrics, 19(3), 101703.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2025.101703

5. Park, H., Jeong, D., & Lee, J. D. (2025). Evolutionary mechanism for diversity dynamics in technology using a phylogenetic tree approach: directional suggestions for photovoltaic technology. Industrial and Corporate Change, 34(1), 53-78. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtae020

2024

1. Jiyong Kim, Jungsub Yoon, Jeong-Dong Lee. (2024). Technological Speciation : Navigating New Needs through Trial and Error - A Rifle Case Study, Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 34(4), 927-952.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-024-00878-2

2. Jeong-Dong. Lee, S. Choi, K. Kim, and S. Si. (2024). Empirical Measurement of Technology Sovereignty (IFS Working Paper). Institute for Future Strategy, Seoul National University. https://ifs.snu.ac.kr/news/publication?mode=view&pubidx=30 

3. Jeong-Dong Lee, Hanbin Kim, Saerom Si, and Saangkeub Lee. (2024). Techno-nationalism to collaborative technology sovereignty, Science and Public Policy, 51(6), 1185-1190. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scae046 

4. Aridi, Anwar, Lee, Jeong-dong, Kim, Kibum, Shin, Kyeyoung, Jeong, Dawoon,  Eum, Wonsub, Kang, Taewon (2024). Diversification through the Application of the Co-evolutionary Framework: Korea and Viet Nam. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099032124063537994

5. Dawoon Jeong and Jeong-Dong Lee (2024), Where and How Does a Product Evolve? Product Innovation Pattern in Product Lineage, Technovation. 131. 102958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102958

6. Sonja Walter, Wonsub Eum, Jeong-Dong Lee (2024), The European Skill Space: A Cross-Country Analysis of the Path-Dependent Evolution of Capability, Baltic Journal of Economics,  24(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/1406099X.2023.2289749.

7. Jungsub Yoon, Dong-hyun Oh, Yoonhwan Oh and Jeong-Dong Lee (2024), Reconsideration of new product development planning based on the relationship between product complexity and product lifetime: the case of the Korean mobile phone market, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 36(2), 306–318. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2022.2033202

2023

1. Kim, S.H., Jun, B. & Lee, JD. (2023), Technological relatedness: how do firms diversify their technology?. Scientometrics, 128, 4901–4931, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04775-6

2. Yeo, Y., Hwang, W. S., & Lee, J. D. (2023). The shrinking middle: exploring the nexus between information and communication technology, growth, and inequality. Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 29(3), 874-901. https://doi.org/10.3846/tede.2023.18713 

3. Hoyoon Lee, Dawoon Jeong, Jeong-Dong Lee (2023), Drivers of Institutional Evolution Phylogenetic Inertia and Ecological Pressure, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 33(2), 279-308.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-023-00813-x

4. Jeong-Dong Lee, Wonsub Eum, Kiyoon Shin, Yunyoung Kim, Hun Jun Lee (2023), Revisiting South Korean industrial development and innovation policies: from implementation capability to design capability. Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 31(3), 625-656. https://doi.org/10.1080/19761597.2022.2148701

5. Yeongjun Yeo, Jeong-Dong Lee, and Sungmoon Jung (2023), Winners and losers in a knowledge-based economy: investigating the policy packages for an inclusive growth based on a computable general equilibrium analysis of Korea, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 28(2), 420-456. https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2021.1982193

2022

1. Jeong-Dong Lee, Dawoon Jeong, Euy-Young Jung, Yunyoung Kim, Jiyong Kim, Youwei He, Sungjun Choi (2022), “Mapping the Evolutionary Pattern of Mobile Products: A Phylogenetic Approach,” in  IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 71, 4776-4790. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2022.3214489

2. Wonsub Eum, Jeong-Dong Lee (2022), Co-evolution of production and technological capabilities during industrial development, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 63, 454-469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2022.07.001

3. Wonsub Eum, Jeong-Dong Lee (2022), Alternative Paths of Diversification for Developing Countries, Review of Development Economics, 26(4), 2336-2355. http://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12915

4. Yongeun Choi, Wonsub Eum, Taewon Kang, Jeong-Dong Lee (2022), Impacts of entrepreneurial experience on firm performance in IPO firms, Managerial and Decision Economics, 43(8), 4064-4076.  https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.3647

5. Sonja Walter, Jeong-Dong Lee (2022), How susceptible are skills to obsolescence? A task-based perspective of human capital depreciation, Foresight and STI Governance (Foresight-Russia till No. 3/2015), 16(2). 

6. Jungsub Yoon, Jeong-Dong Lee, and Seogwon Hwang (2022), Episodic change: A new approach to identifying industrial transition, Technolovation, 115, 102474, online

7. Kiyoon Shin and Jeong-Dong Lee (2022), Impact of public procurement for innovation on firm productivity, Applied Economics Letters, 29(11), 1016-1021, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1904106. [link]

2021

1. Sonja Walter, Jeong-Dong Lee (2021), Human capital depreciation and job tasks, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’21), 1087-1095, Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/HEAd21.2021.13078

2. Jeong-Dong Lee, Keun Lee, Dirk Meissner, Slavo Radosevic, and Nicholas S. Vonortas (2021), Local capacity, innovative entrepreneurial places and global connections: an overview, Journal of Technology Transfer, 46(3), 563-573,  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-020-09812-7. [link]

3. Jung-In Yeon, Jeong-Dong Lee, and Chulwoo Baek (2021). A Tale of Two Technological Capabilities: Economic Growth Revisited from a Technological Capability Transition Perspective, Journal of Technology Transfer, 46(3), 574-605. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-020-09809-2. 

4. Jeong-Dong Lee, Keun Lee, Dirk Meissner, Slavo Radosevic, and Nicholas S. Vonortas (2021), Technology Upgrading and Economic Catch-Up: Context, Overview, and Conclusions, in JD Lee, K Lee, D Meissner, S Radosevic, NS Vonortas (eds.), The Challenges of Technology and Economic Catch-up in Emerging Economies, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

5. Won-Sik Hwang, Yeongjun Yeo, Inha Oh, Chanyoung Hong, Sungmoon Jung, Heewon Yang, and Jeong-Dong Lee (2021), CGE analysis of R&D investment policy considering trade-offs between economic growth and stability, Science and Public Policy, 48(3), 295-308. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scaa068. [link]

6. Taewon Kang, Chulwoo Baek, and Jeong-Dong Lee (2021), Dynamic relationship between technological knowledge and products: Diversification strategy for firm growth, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 33(6), 653-669. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2020.1834082. [link]

7. Jinkuk Kim, Jungsub Yoon, and Jeong-Dong Lee (2021), Dominant design and evolution of technological trajectories: The case of tank technology, 1915–1998, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 31(2), 661-676, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-020-00697-1. [link]

8. Woolrim Lee, Jungsub Yoon, Jörn Altmann, and Jeong-Dong Lee (2021), Model for identifying firm’s product innovation dynamics: applied to the case of the Korean mobile phone industry, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 33(4), 335-348, https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2020.1813271. [link]

2020

1. Yeongjun Yeo and Jeong-Dong Lee (2020), Revitalizing the Race between Technology and Education: Investigating the Growth Strategy for the Knowledge-based Economy based on a CGE analysis, Technology in Society, 62, 101295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2020.101295. [link]

2. Hoyoon Lee, Kiyoon Shin, and Jeong-Dong Lee (2020). Demand-side policy for emergence and diffusion of eco-innovation: The mediating role of production. Journal of Cleaner Production, 259, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120839. [link]

3. Kiyoon Shin, Yeongjun Yeo, and Jeong-Dong Lee (2020). Revitalizing the concept of public procurement for innovation (PPI) from a systemic perspective: Objectives, policy types, and impact mechanisms. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 33(2), 187-211. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-019-09488-7. [link]

4. Lee, J. D., & Heshmati, A. (2020). Introduction to APPC-2018, a Special Issue of the Journal of Productivity Analysis,“Novel Applications of Efficiency and Productivity Analyses in the Asia-Pacific Region”. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 53(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11123-019-00569-2.

2019

1. Taewon Kang, Chulwoo Baek, and Jeong-Dong Lee (2019). Threshold of Gibrat’s law and firm’s growth strategy. International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 18(2), 235-254. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEBR.2019.101314. [link]

2. Taewon Kang, Chulwoo Baek, and Jeong-Dong Lee (2019). Effects of knowledge accumulation strategies through experience and experimentation on firm growth. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 144, 169-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.04.003. [link] 

3. Jeong-Dong Lee, Chulwoo Baek, Sira Maliphol, and Jung-In Yeon (2019). Middle Innovation Trap. Foresight and STI Governance (Foresight-Russia till No. 3/2015), 13(1), 6-18.[link]

4. Wonsub Eum and Jeong-Dong Lee (2019). Role of production in fostering innovation. Technovation, 84-85, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2019.02.002. [link] 

5. Hoyoon Lee, Euy-Young Jung, and Jeong-Dong Lee (2019). Public–private co-evolution and niche development by technology transfer: A case study of state-led electricity system transition in South Korea, Energy Research & Social Science, 49, 103-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.11.001. [link]

6. Hayoung Park, Taewon Kang, and Jeong-Dong Lee (2019). R&D dynamics and firm growth: The importance of R&D persistency in the economic crisis, International Journal of Innovation Management, 1950049, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1142/S136391961950049X. [link]

2018

1. Taewon Kang, Chulwoo Baek, and Jeong-Dong Lee (2018). R&D activities for becoming a high-growth firm through large jumps: evidence from the Korean manufacturing, Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 26(2), 222-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/19761597.2018.1520604. [link]

2. Kibum Kim, Chulwoo Baek, and Jeong-Dong Lee (2018), Creative destruction of the sharing economy in action: The case of Uber, Transportation Research Part A, 110, 118-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.01.014. [link]

2017

1. Hun Jun Lee, Jeong-Dong Lee, and Chulwoo Baek (2017). Productivity dynamics and the cleansing effect of two recessions: Evidence from the manufacturing sector in Korea. Pacific Economic Review, 22(4), 677-701.[link]

2. Taewon Kang, Chulwoo Baek, and Jeong-Dong Lee (2017). The persistency and volatility of the firm R&D investment: Revisited from the perspective of technological capability. Research Policy, 46(9), 1570-1579.[link]

3. Jungsub Yoon, Yoonhwan Oh, and Jeong-Dong Lee (2017). The impact of policy consistency on technological competitiveness: A study on OECD countries. Energy Policy, 108, 425-434. [link]

4. Yoonhwan Oh, Dong-hyun Oh, and Jeong-Dong Lee (2017). A sequential global Malmquist productivity index: Productivity growth index for unbalanced panel data considering the progressive nature of technology. Empirical Economics, 52(4), 1651-1674. [link]

5. Sungmoon Jung, Jeong-Dong Lee, Won-Sik Hwang, and Yeongjun Yeo (2017), Growth versus equity: A CGE analysis for effects of factor-biased technical progress on economic growth and employment, Economic Modelling, 60, 424-438. [link]

6. Gihyun Kwak and Jeong-Dong Lee (2017). How an Economic Recession Affects Qualitative Entrepreneurship: Focusing on the Entrepreneur's Exit Decision. Managerial and Decision Economics, 38(7), 909-922. [link]

7. Junho Na, Jeong-Dong Lee, and Chulwoo Baek (2017), Is the service sector different in size heterogeneity?, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 12, 95-120. [link]

2016