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How Can We Improve the Government’s Research and Technology for Disasters and Safety?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2025

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Seungil Yum*
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The Department of Landscape, Cheongju university, Cheongju, Korea
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Corresponding author: Seungil Yum; Email: yumseungil@gmail.com
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Abstract

Objective

This study explores how we can improve the government’s research and technology for disasters and safety.

Methods

This study employs the Structural Equation Model (SEM) based on 268 experts’ perspectives.

Results

R&D performance exerts a directly significant impact on R&D achievement with the coefficient of 0.429. Second, while professionality and environment of R&D do not show a direct effect on achievement, they exhibit an indirect effect on it with the coefficient of 1.124 and 0.354, respectively. Third, R&D professionality exerts a significant impact on the R&D environment (0.964), and R&D environment has a positive effect on R&D performance (0.827).

Conclusion

Governments and policymakers should develop disaster and safety policies by understanding direct and indirect effects and the relationship of factors related to R&D for improving R&D achievement.

Keywords

R&DgovernmentSEMdisasterssafety
Type
Original Research
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 19 , 2025 , e21
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc

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