An empirical study on the successful factors of government-supported creative R&D in Korea

This study is an analysis on the successful factors and performance level of government-supported Creative R&D Program in Korea. A regression analysis was conducted based on the result of questionnaire (120) on researchers who participated in the program. The result shows that the successful factors are leadership, information sharing, networking, autonomy, creativity and academic exchange which have influences on the research performance. Therefore, the success of creative R&D supported by government is dependent on R&D management including selecting project leaders. Additionally, a data analysis using the impact factors of journals (categories of Nature, Science and Cell) indicates that clear performance targets contribute to the good qualities of creative R&D.