Spatial Pattern of Regional Innovative Capacity and Regional Innovation Activity of Enterprise —Case of Korea Manufacture Industry—

Abstract

Knowledge has recognized as the driving force of economic growth and the primary source of competitiveness in the world market. So, since the 1990s, the Regional Innovational System has been highlighted as one of the new industrial development strategies in a knowledge base economy. This paper aims to present a suggestion by examining correlation between Regional Innovative capacity and innovation activity of enterprise. This analysis is done by the factor analysis, the cluster analysis and the rank correlation analysis. The regional characters as the innovative environment are extracted by using the innovative capacity index. These results concerned with building up a Regional Innovation System to foster regional industry in Korea. © 2006, JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL. All rights reserved.