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According to the report of Daedeok Valley Management Office (DVMO) in
2006, within 10 years DST will have obtained immense growth as well as the
number of our occupant companies and R&D institutes and the number of inter-
national patent registrations will rise. Especially, the companies in DST are esti-
mated to be 3,000 units in 2015 and the number of foreign R&D institutes is
expected to be 20 in 2015, up from 2 in 2004. In addition, DVMO is predicting the
international patent registration will be increased about 10 times more than the
number in 2004 and sales from technology commercialization are expected to
reach 31,296 million in 2015.
R&D Activities
There are typically two levels of R&D activities in DST. One is corporate R&D
labs, which are engaged in basic research; the other is division-level labs, which
are used for research directly related to the business and manufacturing needs of
their particular division-level activities and also focus on commercialization of
their products for their business. The characteristics of R&D activities in DV have
changed according to the changes in the main body of R&D activities. For
example, research institutes of private firms in Daedeok are varied in their sectoral
pattern of activities, while many government institutes are biased toward basic
research and development rather than production and commercialization (Fig.
6
).
At an initial stage, DST focused mainly on pure basic research, because most
institutes in DST were public organizations. But, in terms of technology-led
economic development, this policy predicted development isolated from the
regional economy. It is because long-range investigation of a basic research could
have little economic impact on the region. In 1988, about 42 % of all government
research institutes were located in DST and this percentage had increased until
Fig. 6
Number of institute in DST
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