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

The Korean Society of Business Venturing (한국벤처창업학회)
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The Effect of Entrepreneur's Curiosity on Challenge, Innovation and Competition

창업가의 호기심이 도전성, 혁신성 및 경쟁추구성에 미치는 영향

  • Geum, Yong-Pil (Department of Innovation Start-up & Growth, Daegu Catholic University) ;
  • Kim, Pansoo (School of Business, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Jang, Young-Hye (Office of Industry-University Cooperation, Keimyung College University)
  • 금용필 (대구가톨릭대학교 사회경제대학원 혁신창업성장학과) ;
  • 김판수 (경북대학교 경영학과) ;
  • 장영혜 (계명문화대학교 산학협력단)
  • Received : 2020.03.06
  • Accepted : 2020.04.28
  • Published : 2020.04.30
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Abstract

This study examined the effects of curiosity, the personal characteristics of start-up founders, on entrepreneurship. Among the various factors that make up the entrepreneurship, this study identified the relationship between the practical factors (challenge, innovativeness, competition) and the founder's curiosity. Based on previous studies, curiosity was divided into four individual factors: deficiency, playfulness, social curiosity, and stimulus pursuit. For each individual factor, we analyzed meaningful relationship with entrepreneurship. In addition, the founders were classified into those who simply think of starting a business, those preparing to start a business, and those who started the business. Each group was analyzed their degree of curiosity. The data were analyzed based on the final 248 data for entrepreneurs who are preparing or starting their own business in Daegu-Gyeongbuk region. Analysis shows that curiosity is higher in those who prepare or start a business than those who think about it. Curiosity has been found to have a positive effect on both the challenge, the innovation, and the composition of the competition. In addition, in entrepreneurship, the challenge was found to have a positive effect on innovation, but it did not affect competition composition. The characteristics of individual factors of curiosity were also different, and there was a significant effect of deficiency and playfulness on challenge, social curiosity and stimulus pursuit on innovation, and stimulus pursuit on competition. These findings are significant in identifying and analyzing curiosity as a factor influencing entrepreneurship. The results of the analysis can help theoretical expansion of entrepreneurship. In addition, it can provide important implications for the direction of entrepreneurship education and program development among volunteer activities for prospective entrepreneurs.

본 연구는 창업가의 개인적 특성인 호기심이 기업가정신에 미치는 영향을 확인하였다. 기업가정신을 구성하고 있는 다양한 요인들 가운데 창업자의 호기심을 불러일으킬 수 있는 실천적인 요인들(도전성, 혁신성, 경쟁추구성)과 호기심의 관계를 확인한 것이다. 호기심은 선행연구를 바탕으로 결핍민감성, 유희적탐구, 사회적호기심, 자극추구 네 가지 개별요인으로 구분하여 도전성, 혁신성 그리고 경쟁추구성과의 관계를 분석하였다. 또한, 창업자는 창업을 생각하고 있는 사람, 창업을 준비하는 사람, 창업을 한 사람으로 분류하여 각 그룹마다 호기심의 차이를 분석하였다. 자료는 대구경북 지역에서 창업을 준비하고 있거나 창업한지 3년 이내인 창업가들을 대상으로 최종 248개의 자료를 바탕으로 분석하였다. 분석결과, 호기심은 창업에 대한 단순한 생각을 하고 있는 사람들보다 창업을 준비하거나 창업을 한 사람들에게서 높게 나타났다. 그리고 호기심은 창업가의 도전성과 혁신성, 경쟁추구성 모두에 긍정적 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었다. 또한 기업가정신 가운데 도전성은 혁신성에는 긍정적 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었으나 경쟁추구성에는 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 호기심의 개별요인의 특성도 다르게 나타났는데, 도전성에는 결핍민감성과 유희적탐구가, 혁신성에는 사회적호기심과 자극추구가, 경쟁추구성에는 자극추구에 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었다. 본 연구는 창업가들의 호기심과 기업가정신의 실천적 요인들에 미치는 요인을 분석하였다는데 의미가 있다. 분석의 결과를 통해 기업가정신에 관한 이론적 확장에 도움이 될 수 있으며, 예비창업가들을 위한 지원활동 가운데 창업교육의 방향과 프로그램 개발을 위해 중요한 시사점을 제공할 수 있을 것이다.

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