Network analysis on the collaborative research of research institutions

The R&D expenditure in Korea has increased in the past decade. We have also tried to foster the institutions including universities and research institutes in order to strengthen the innovation capability. The present study was undertaken to investigate the centralities of the universities and the research institutes in Korea by analyzing the networks of the domestic/international collaborative research in 1996 and 2006. In this study, the implications will be presented about the change of the centralities of research institutions in the decade as well as the R&D policy in Korea.