미국 DARPA에 관한 정책네트워크 분석 연구: PM의 사회관계망을 중심으로

초록

This study analyzes the characteristics of U.S. DARPA known as a successful model for challenging and innovative R&D. This study reviewed from the perspective of a policy network, considering that the excellent performance of DARPA is due to the close interaction with several key stakeholders surrounding DARPA, although some aspects are due to DARPA’s own outstanding capabilities. To this end, this study examined DARPA's policy decision process, and then conducted a qualitative policy network analysis at the institutional level. In addition, in order to supplement the limitations of qualitative analysis, quantitative SNA(Social Network Analysis) was performed with individual PMs as the unit of analysis to comprehensively examine DARPA's policy network. As a result, DARPA was found to have a stable and horizontal network structure, with defense-related actors such as U.S. Defense Authorities, U.S. Air Force, and Navy, military research institutes, and defense companies interacting strongly with each other. This study explains that DARPA sets a new policy direction, discovers technology demand, R&D plans and evaluates research projects, manages progress, and promotes commercialization in this strong policy network. It is meaningful that this study empirically analyses that DARPA is closely interacting with a group of defense technology experts.

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