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

The Korean Society of Business Venturing (한국벤처창업학회)
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The CVC' Adventurous Investments: The Effects of Industrial Characteristics and Investment Experience on CVC Investments

기업벤처캐피탈의 모험적 투자: 미국 기업벤처캐피탈 투자에 미치는 산업특성과 투자경험의 영향 탐색

  • Received : 2021.01.28
  • Accepted : 2021.06.23
  • Published : 2021.06.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we study empirically examined the adventurous investments in corporate venture capital (CVC) firms' investment in the U.S. based corporate venture capital industry. Unlike existing studies focusing CVC firm's characteristics related to parent corporates and regarding CVC firm as a vehicle of corporate venturing, we identified CVC firm as an independent learning agent to adapt to dynamic environment and investigate their exploration and exploitation in investments based on organizational learning theory. Specifically, we investigate the market-environmental factors affecting CVC's adventurous investment in different sector rather than previously done. First, we examined competition intensity in CVC industry might be related to CVC firm's explorative investments. Second, CVC firm's investment experiences might affect as an inertia to invest on unexperienced sector. Finally, we investigated risk preference effect on CVC firm's venturing investments. The empirical data analyzed in the study contained a total of 85 U.S. based CVC firms and their 2,306 investments from 1996 until 2017. After conducting a GEE regression analysis and a Logit regression analysis, we found the significance and direction of our independent and moderating variables strongly supported all of our four hypotheses in a highly robust manner.

본 연구는 기업벤처캐피탈의 모험적 투자에 영향을 미치는 요인들에 대해 탐색한다. 기존 연구들이 기업벤처캐피탈을 모기업 사업 다각화와 신규 사업 진출을 위한 기업벤처링의 수단, 사업전략을 위한 전략적 투자자, 소유 지배 구조를 확장하기 위한 부정적인 역할을 수행하는 주체로 바라보는 것에 반해, 본 연구는 독립된 재무적 투자자이자 학습 주체로서 기업벤처캐피탈의 정체성에 주목한다. 구체적으로 본 연구는 변화하는 경영 환경에 대응하여 탐색을 시도하는 기업벤처캐피탈의 모험적 투자에 주목하여, 기업벤처캐피탈로 하여금 기존에 투자하던 방식이 아닌 새로운 방식의 모험적 투자를 하게하는 요인에 대해 분석한다. 이를 위해 산업 내 경쟁강도, 기업벤처캐피탈의 투자경험, 기업벤처캐피탈의 투자와 관련된 위험선호성향이 모험적 투자에 미치는 영향에 대해 실증분석하였다. 1996년부터 2017년까지 미국 기업벤처캐피탈의 기업정보, 투자정보를 기반으로 실증분석한 결과, 산업 내 경쟁강도가 강할수록, 투자경험이 많을수록, 스타트업의 후반 라운드에 투자를 주로 하는 기업벤처캐피탈일수록 상대적으로 모험적인 투자를 하지 않는 것이라는 가설이 모두 지지되었다. 주로 모기업과의 관계를 중심으로 기업벤처캐피탈의 투자에 대해 논의했던 기존 연구들과 달리, 독립된 투자자이자 탐색과 활용의 주체로서의 기업벤처캐피탈 투자에 대해 주목했다는 점에서 기업벤처캐피탈 정체성과 투자전략에 대한 논의의 폭을 확장하고, 기업벤처캐피탈이 스타트업 생태계에서의 역할에 대해 제고한다는 점에서 시사점이 있다.

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