Abstract
This paper proposes a new approach to technology valuation, the market-replacement cost approach which integrates the cost-based approach and market-based approach. The proposed approach estimates the market-replacement cost of a target technology using R&D costs of similar R&D projects previously conducted. Similar R&D projects are extracted from project database based on document similarity between project proposals and technology description of the target technology. R&D costs of similar R&D projects are adjusted by mirroring the rate of technological obsolescence and inflation. Market-replacement cost of the technology is then derived by calculating the weighted average of adjusted costs and similarity values of similar R&D projects. A case of "Prevention method and system for the diffusion of mobile malicious code" is presented to illustrate the proposed approach.
| Translated title of the contribution | A Market-Based Replacement Cost Approach to Technology Valuation |
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| Original language | Korean |
| Pages (from-to) | 150-161 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | 대한산업공학회지 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 2015 |