• Venture DIGEST
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• s.77
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• pp.12-13
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• 2005

벤처산업 활성화를 위한 목소리가 높아지면서 그 어느 때보다 벤처캐피털에 대한 관심이 집중되고 있다. 벤처기업의 자금난 해소를 위해 투자기능을 발휘해 온 벤처캐피털은 정부의 보완대책을 기점으로 더욱 선진화된 모습으로의 변화를 꾀하고 있다. 벤처캐피털의 필요성과 역할, 향후 전망을 통해 벤처캐피털을 재발견해 보자.

• Venture DIGEST
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• s.77
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• pp.14-15
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• 2005

정부가 발표한 벤처활성화보완대책에는 벤처캐피털의 투자에 관한 규제를 완화하겠다는 내용이 담겨 있다. 이를 계기로 모태펀드, 경영지배목적의 투자, 유한회사형 투자조합 등 벤처캐피털 활성화를 뒷받침할 구체적인 방안들이 제시된 것은 물론, 벤처업계의 관심을 끌고 있다. 그렇다면 모태펀드의 운용은 어떤 방식으로 진행되며, 유한회사형 투자조합은 무얼 뜻하는 것일까. 또 이런 방안들을 통해 어떤 효과를 기대할 수 있는 것인가. 최근 주목받고 있는 키워드를 통해 풀어보는 벤처캐피털에 관한 궁금증들을 해소해 보자.

• Venture DIGEST
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• s.94
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• pp.4-7
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• 2006

벤처기업의 수가 다시 1만개를 넘어섰다는 소식이 반갑다. 그런데 숫자의 증가보다 절실한 벤처캐피털의 질적 성장과 과학기술을 산업화하는 통로의 도약은 여전히 미약하다. 이들 핵심요인의 변화가 있어야만 진정으로 고성장 벤처기업의 탄생 가능성이 높아질 것으로 믿는다. 특히 벤처의 젖줄인 벤처캐피털의 변화 속도는 더디기만 하다. 이는 실제로 우리나라 금융제도라는 큰 틀의 관행과 역사에 뿌리를 두고 있어서 하루아침에 변하거나 수정되기도 어려운 조건이다. 이런 상황에서는 벤처캐피털이 해주는 역할을 누군가 대신해주는 주체가 필요한데, 여러 노력들이 있었지만 속 시원할 정도의 수준은 아니었다. 정부의 공공자금이 그 역할을 완전히 대체하기 어렵고, 아직은 대기업들이 벤처기업에 대해 적극적인 투자선호를 보이는 것도 아니다. 이런 조건에서 벤처의 확대재생산은 여전히 벤처업계의 자생적 노력에 의존할 수밖에 없다. 그 노력을 수평적 측면과 수직적 측면에서 생각해보자.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.131-141
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• 2019

This paper investigates a relationship between a market position of a venture capitalist(i.e.,VC) and its subsequent performance. Although a VC firm may perform better if it occupies a narrow niche(e.g.,specialist), which allows the firm to attain deep insider knowledge and build an identity as an industry expert, a firm may perform better if it has a broader niche(e.g.,generalist), which gives the firm access to more diverse information and opportunities and to effectively spread out potential risks. Given that accesses to valuable information and chances are critical for success in venture capital industry, we hypothesize that venture capitalists with broad niche width are more likely to grow in the future and analyze 26-year data on US venture capital industry. We found that, in general, a firm can enjoy the advantage of having a broad niche. However, the return to having a broad niche varies depending on its status within the market: a return greater for low- status than high-status VC firms. Our finding suggests that explorative efforts may be more rewarding for low-status VC firms.

• Venture DIGEST
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• s.88
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• pp.18-19
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• 2005

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.97-110
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• 2020

This paper is on the policy proposal for venture ecosystem. First, one of the three secrets of the US venture ecosystem is the law of 50:50. Angel capital investment is as important as venture capital investment. Although professional angel investors and accelerators account for as much as VC in the venture ecosystem, they are ignored from policy considerations. We argue that the revision of related law is urgent. Second, large US firms invest more in M&As than in internal R&D. Therefore, accelerators and professional angel investors could make effective investment recovery after investing in a startup company. In other words, angel capital does not come in without secondary market development. Angel capital and secondary markets are the two pillars of the venture ecosystem. The government alone is difficult to develop a secondary market. This is why the private sector should come in and introduce corporate venture capital (CVC). Third, we believe the policy direction for national economic growth should be extended from the startup to scale-up. This is because the startup's sales and job creation will start in five years. While the previous study focused on funding (venture financing), this paper aims to balance all three stages of a venture: startup, growth, and recovery, which are the life cycle of a venture company or venture investment. In particular, we propose specific policies in each chapter to improve practical application.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.79-105
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• 2017

As the size of venture firm's operating funds continues to increase, the scope of work of the investment jurisdiction is increasing dramatically as well. However, investment decisions vary widely, depending on the competence of the judges. This follow-up study recommends verifying the validity of the effectiveness of venture investments by validating the efficacy of assessing venture investment indexes. After verifying the assessment indexes for 100 venture firms, the study noted that the efficacy of the survey as a qualitative evaluation measure was approximately 85% hit, which can act as a yardstick for investment decisions. The results of this study can contribute toward the decision making power of venture companies in terms of investments.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.125-135
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• 2016

It is well known that the encouraging startups play a major role for innovation in an economy. Thus, venture capital are indispensable for the growth of startups. The literature on investment performance of venture capital reveals that the investment strategies depend largely on the characteristics and capabilities of venture capital. Therefore, investment capability of venture capital is important. There are various investing roles that can be identified by venture capital when determining what kind of startup to invest in, whom to invest with, how to invest, how to post-investment management after investment, and so on. This research was conducted to understand the effect of investment capabilities of venture capital on investment performance. To do so, we surveyed 70 venture businesses in the Seoul and Gyeonggido region for an empirical analysis. The empirical results of this paper are summarized as follows. First, the financial performance of venture firms is influenced by the financial capacity of venture capitalists, and investment evaluation of venture capital. Second, the business performance of venture firms is influenced by the marketing support consulting of venture capital, and investment evaluation of venture capital.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.95-119
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• 2024

While several recent studies have investigated the spatial distribution of entrepreneurship within the Seoul metropolitan area, they have not thoroughly examined the relationship between the industrial composition and spatial distribution of entrepreneurial clusters. To address this gap, this study initially identified entrepreneurial clusters through hotspot analysis using Getis-Ord Gi* with venture capital investment data from 2021. Subsequently, to analyze the industrial composition of the identified clusters, we measured not only their industrial diversity and specialization, but also the share of software and non-software industries. Additionally, we examined the government policies related to the formation of the clusters. As a result, we identified fourteen prominent entrepreneurial clusters within the Seoul metro area and revealed that the clusters located closer to the city centers exhibited higher levels of industrial diversity and a greater share of software industries. Conversely, clusters situated farther from the city centers demonstrated a higher share of non-software industries. Furthermore, we found that government policies affect the industrial specialization of suburban clusters. Nevertheless, we observed several exceptions that diverged from the general trends due to policy interventions. These findings underscore that formulating policies for entrepreneurial clusters in metropolitan areas should be based on these insights.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.211-246
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• 2008

This paper evaluates the role of Korean government in the venture capital industry, in particular in the stages of fund-raising and venture investment. Utilizing data from Korean Venture Capital Association (KVCA), the analysis is conducted for the venture boom and post-boom periods separately. Empirical results show that the government played a significant role in the fund-raising stage in both venture boom and post-boom periods. When it comes to the investment stage, however, the empirical results indicate that the government did not accomplish expected roles. In particular, the government failed to induce investments in the outside funds of which the government had a larger stake toward early-staged firms and guide common stock investments during the venture boom period. The empirical outcomes also show that the government has not properly increased venture investments on high-tech industries during the post-boom period. This paper argues tentative reasons why the policy failures were observed in relation to the policy implications and provide several pieces of supporting evidence.