Abstract

Since the late 1990s, in South Korea, two innovation certification policies—InnoBiz and Venture certifications—have fostered the innovation activities of venture companies and small- to medium-sized enterprises.The two certifications, however, share similar features in their policy goals, targets, and main content. This study aims to evaluate how technical efficiencies of firms differ based on the types of innovation certifications it achieves and examine the result when a firm simultaneously achieves overlapping certifications. We classified information and communication technology convergence firms into four different groups by certification type and evaluated their performance based on technical efficiency (TE) by applying stochastic frontier analysis and meta-frontier analysis. Our results show that the meta-frontier TE of the group with overlapping certifications is lower than that of the group with a single certification, implying that there is no remarkable performance improvement in terms of the efficiency, particularly when certifications sharing similar characteristics are implemented.

中文翻译：

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韩国ICT融合公司的重叠认证和技术效率

摘要

自1990年代后期以来，在韩国，两项创新认证政策（InnoBiz和Venture认证）促进了风险企业和中小型企业的创新活动。然而，这两种认证在政策目标上具有相似的特征，目标和主要内容。本研究旨在根据企业所获得的创新认证的类型来评估企业的技术效率如何不同，并在企业同时获得重叠认证时检查其结果。我们按照认证类型将信息和通信技术融合公司划分为四个不同的组，并通过应用随机前沿分析和元前沿分析，根据技术效率（TE）评估其绩效。