Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship (벤처창업연구)

The Korean Society of Business Venturing (한국벤처창업학회)
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An Analysis on the Critical Startup Success Factors in Small-Sized Venture Businesses

중소·벤처기업의 창업 성공요인에 대한 상대적 중요도 분석

  • Received : 2017.04.17
  • Accepted : 2017.06.27
  • Published : 2017.06.30
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Abstract

With increasing the importance of venture startup in the national economy, a trend shows that the government's policy support for venture startup is not only strengthened, but also entrepreneurial enthusiasm is increasing. In order for this trend to continue as an ongoing phenomenon, not a temporary phenomenon, venture startups should continue to grow with survival competitiveness. In this respect, there is a time when it is necessary to study the factors affecting the success of venture startups more than ever. There is a limit to seeing main factors, which affect the entry into the growth stage with survival competitiveness for the success of venture startups, as only 'entrepreneur capacity' and 'differentiation strategy' claimed by existing previous studies. As a more fundamental factor, entrepreneurial behavior is important in terms of opportunity discovery and opportunity utilization, but research into this falls short of expectations. This study is intended to look into success factors of venture startup. To achieve this, a survey was empirically carried out to CEOs in 100 small and medium venture startups through AHP analysis. The results are as follows. As stated above, entrepreneurship of success factors in venture startups is considered most critical, followed by innovation, economics, and technology. And 'entrepreneur's competency', 'positive entrepreneurial motivation', 'creative technology utilization', and 'continuous investment in technical development' are considered most critical for 'entrepreneurship', 'innovation', 'technology', and 'economics' as sub-factors, respectively. Consequently, entrepreneur's entrepreneurship that has been required in general startups is a critical factor to be also in common required in venture startups. This means that they can secure the competitiveness of venture startup along with continuous investment support in business startup with a positive mindset and their own technological competence as innovators to overcome the risk and uncertainty of business startup as entrepreneurship that marks the start of a new enterprise.

벤처창업이 국가경제에서 차지하는 중요성이 증가함에 따라 벤처 창업에 대한 정부의 정책적 지원도 강화되고 있고, 창업 열기도 점점 확산되는 추세를 보이고 있다. 이러한 추세가 일시적 현상이 아닌 지속적으로 이어지기 위해서는 벤처창업기업이 생존 경쟁력을 갖춰 성장세를 이어갈 수 있어야 한다. 이러한 점에서 벤처창업기업의 성공에 미치는 영향요인에 대한 연구가 그 어느 때보다 필요한 시점이다. 벤처창업기업의 성공을 위한 생존 경쟁력을 갖추고, 성장단계로 진입하는데 영향을 미치는 주요 요인으로 기존 선행 연구에서 주장하는 '창업가 역량', '차별화 전략' 만으로는 한계가 있다. 보다 근원적인 요인으로 기회발견과 기회활용이란 측면에서창업행동이 중요성을 갖는데 이에 대한 연구는 상대적으로 미흡했다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 벤처창업의 성공요인을 밝히는데 목적을 갖고 중소 벤처경영기업 100개사 CEO를 대상으로 AHP분석 방법을 통해 실증 조사하였으며, 그 결과를 보면 다음과 같다. 먼저, 벤처창업 성공요인으로 창업가정신이 가장 중요시되는 것으로 나타났고 그 다음 혁신성과 경제성, 기술성 순으로 상대적 중요도를 가지는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 하위요인에서의 창업가정신에서는 창업자의 역량과 혁신성에서는 긍정적 창업동기, 기술성에서는 창조적 기술 활용이 경제성에는 기술개선을 위한 지속적인 투자지원을 가장 중요시하는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 일반 창업에서 가장 요구돼왔던 창업자의 기업가 정신이 벤처창업에서도 공통적으로 요구되는 요인임을 실증해 주었다. 또한 새로운 기업의 시작을 알리는 창업정신으로서의 창업의 위험과 불확실성을 극복하기 위한 혁신자로서의 긍정적인 마인드와 독자적 기술역량을 가지고 창업에 임할 때 지속적인 투자지원과 함께 벤처창업의 경쟁력을 확보할 수 있음을 시사해 준 것으로 평가할 수 있다.

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