5. Conclusion
This study examined causal relationships between Korea's R&D investment in the ICT industry and economic growth. Before causality tests, unit root tests were performed to assess the stability of the time series data. All introduced variables were non-stationary but their first difference variables were found to be stable. Cointegration was employed to determine whether a stable linear combination exists between the two variables, and one cointegration relationship was observed in all models. Since a cointegration relationship exists between the two time series, granger-causality was tested using the vector error correction model.