Title Page
Abstract
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction 11
Chapter 2. Background for the study 20
2.1. ICT layer separation 21
2.2. User participation in innovation 24
Chapter 3. Measurement of User importance for innovation in Korean content-layer firms 28
3.1. Changing user roles for innovation 28
3.2. Literature review of innovation theories 30
3.3. Actors and their roles in innovation in the ICT industry 35
3.4. User-involved innovation model for empirical analysis 40
3.5. Methodology 46
3.6. Results and discussions 56
Chapter 4. Layer-based combinational strategy for innovation in Korean ICT industry 66
4.1. Literature review of combinational innovation strategy 66
4.2. A layer-based innovation strategy model 70
4.3. Layer separation 75
4.4. Innovation type 77
4.5. Research methodology 78
4.6. Results and discussions 85
Chapter 5. Factors affecting successful innovation in Korean contents industry 103
5.1. Importance of content layer in the ICT industry 103
5.2. Categories for extracting success factors 109
5.3. Modelling 111
5.4. Hypotheses and Methodology 118
5.5. Results and discussions 121
Chapter 6. Conclusions and policy implications 134
Appendix 145
Bibliography 150
초록 167
Table 3.1. Reconstruction of innovation organisations and their roles 38
Table 3.2. Random Index (RI) value 50
Table 3.3. Target firms for the survey 52
Table 3.4. Results of the AHP analysis (total firms) 57
Table 3.5. Results of the AHP analysis (user-targeting firms) 57
Table 3.6. Results of the AHP analysis (firm-targeting firms) 58
Table 4.1. Components drawn from three types of actors based on a user-involved innovation 71
Table 4.2. Scope of the three ICT industry layers 76
Table 4.3. Variables for logistic regression 84
Table 4.4. Data separation 86
Table 4.5. Most popular six strategies for the content layer 88
Table 4.6. Most popular six strategies for the service and network layer 88
Table 4.7. Most popular six strategies for the terminal layer 89
Table 4.8. Coefficients and odds ratios - total innovation in content layer 91
Table 4.9. Coefficients and odds ratios - product innovation in content layer 91
Table 4.10. Coefficients and odds ratios - process innovation in content layer 92
Table 4.11. Coefficients and odds ratios - total innovation in service and... 93
Table 4.12. Coefficients and odds ratios - product innovation in service and... 94
Table 4.13. Coefficients and odds ratios - process innovation in service and... 95
Table 4.14. Coefficients and odds ratios - total innovation in terminal layer 96
Table 4.15. Coefficients and odds ratios - product innovation in terminal layer 97
Table 4.16. Coefficients and odds ratios - process innovation in terminal layer 97
Table 4.17. Two optimal strategies for innovation by layer and innovation type 98
Table 5.1. Categories and variables for factors affecting successful innovation 113
Table 5.2. Categories and variables for successful innovation 115
Table 5.3. Measurement properties of the factor affecting successful... 123
Table 5.4. Measurement properties of the measures of innovation success 124
Table 5.5. Correlation coefficient matrix 127
Table 5.6. Multiple regression results 128
Figure 1.1. Research Model 18
Figure 2.1. Basic Concept of ICT industrial transition from the silo to layered... 22
Figure 2.2. The different ages in the evolution of society (excluding the... 25
Figure 3.1. Three organisations for innovation in the ICT industry 43
Figure 3.2. The scope of each organization 43
Figure 3.3. Innovation process flows and the function of each actor 45
Figure 3.4. Hierarchy for AHP modeling 53
Figure 3.5. Alternative assessment 62
Figure 4.1. Innovation strategy model 72
Figure 5.1. Brief explanations of empirical innovation model 107
Figure 5.2. Research model 126