• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.75-91
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• 2024

Recently, global business environment is changing dramatically along with the acceleration of technological innovation amid the war, climatic change, and geopolitical instability. Accordingly, it is difficult to predict or plan for the future as the volatility, complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty of the industrial ecosystem continue to increase. Therefore, organizations are undergoing inevitable restructuring in accordance with their survival strategy, for instance, removing marginal businesses or firing. Accordingly, office workers are seeking a startup as an alternative for their continuous economic activity amid rising anxiety factors that make them think they would lose their jobs unintentionally. Here, this study is aimed to verify through what paths office workers' self-determination influences the process of converting to a startup. For this study, an online survey was carried out, and 310 respondents' valid data were analyzed through SPSS and AMOS. To sum up the results, first, office workers' self-determination did not have significant effects on entrepreneurial intention. However, it was confirmed that self-determination had positive (+) effects on innovativeness and perception of the startup support system. This result shows that their psychology works to prepare step by step by accumulating innovative experiences and increasing perception of the startup support system from a long-term life path perspective rather than challenging startups right way. Second, innovativeness is found to have positive (+) effects on entrepreneurial intention. Also, perception of the startup support system had positive (+) effects on entrepreneurial intention. This implies that when considering startups, they are highly aware of the government's various startup support systems. Third, innovativeness is found to have positive (+) effects on perception of the startup support system. It is judged that perception of the startup support system is valid for prospective founders to exhibit their innovativeness and realize new ideas. Fourth, it was confirmed that innovativeness and perception of the startup support system mediated correlation between self-determination and entrepreneurial intention, and perception of the startup support system mediated correlation between innovativeness and entrepreneurial intention, which shows that it is a crucial factor in entrepreneurial intention. Although previous studies related to startups deal with students mostly, this study targets office workers who form a great part in economic activities, which makes it academically valuable in terms of being differentiated from others and extending the scope of research. Also, when we consider the fact that the motivation for self-determination alone fails to stimulate entrepreneurial intention and the complete mediation of innovativeness and the startup support system, it has great implications in practical aspects such as the government's human and material support systems. In the selection and analysis of samples, this study exhibits a limitation that the problem of common method bias is not completely resolved. Also, additional definitive research is needed on whether entrepreneurial intention is formed and converted into startup behavior. Academically and practically, this study deals with the relationship between humans' psychological motives and startups which has not been handled sufficiently in previous studies. The conversion of office workers to startups is expected to have effects on individuals' economic stability and the state's job creation; therefore, it needs to be investigated continuously for its great value.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.33-45
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• 2014

The Government of South Korea is actively promoting entrepreneurship policies to help solve an age old problem of unemployment; however, the unemployment rate of youth entrepreneurship remains at a low. Primarily due to the government fragmented policies that are unable to solve the daily difficulties young entrepreneurs undergo. Therefore, this study aims at deriving a modern solution to an age old problem that exists through the use of co-creation by first interviewing young entrepreneurs to help derive a paradigm model. The model was developed through a grounded theory approach to help strengthen the young venture entrepreneurs. The results revealed that majority of the young entrepreneurship revitalization policies had exclusive participation structure, allowing only a selected few: complex policies of various government departments, short-term funding, one-size-fits-all training and support, lack of follow-up support policies after start-up, excessive administrative requirements, and performance-oriented fragmented support. Concluding that the policies were unrealistic and ineffective for the entrepreneurs. Accordingly, the result suggests that Co-creation entrepreneurship revitalization policy, based on the experiences of entrepreneurs, will need to be established to formulate an effective policy that provides practical assistance to the entrepreneurs in the field.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.165-175
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• 2024

In this paper, the purpose of this study was to analyze various information related to the government's youth entrepreneurship support policy, propose a customized entrepreneurship promotion strategy for college students majoring in sports, and increase their entrepreneurship efficacy. Through this, the aim was to increase the entrepreneurship efficacy of sports majors. Firstly, a literature study was conducted, and secondly, alternatives for promoting entrepreneurship among college students majoring in sports were analyzed based on expert interviews. Therefore, the following suggestions were made. 1. Recognizing the added value and individuality of the sports field in startup policy. 2. Creation of a start-up network and platform for sports majors to start a business. 3. Sports start-up space composition. 4. Organizing and supporting start-up clubs. 5. Activating entrepreneurship education and competitions in capstone design and employment seminar subjects. 6. Increasing start-up efficacy through start-up mentoring.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.15-24
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• 2017

This research is focused on how the venture-startup policies of South Korea has changed for the last ten years and then scope on its outcomes, limits and suggestions. Several policies for venture-startup has begun when "Small Business Startup Support Law" was developed in 1986. Government's support policies for venture and startup and development of venture had made a turning point in 1997 "Act on Special Measures for the Promotion of Venture Business" and venture companies has achieved remarkable growth with Information Technologies(IT). However, with the global IT bubble and the enrichment of venture companies, a number of venture companies experienced considerable difficulties due to multiple thresholds. There were a lot of efforts to revitalize venture-startup ecosystem such as fostering innovative SMEs and one-person creative enterprise support policy. From 2002 to 2004, Korean Government focused on preventing moral hazards of Korean Venture Business. From 2005 to 2006, It focused on fostering the role of venture capitals, and From 2007 to 2012, Single start-up business has been fostered by government policies. Generally speaking, it can be said that venture-startup policy was emphasized on building the hardware infrastructure of venture-startup and supporting with the funds.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.291-298
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• 2019

This study discusses the core contents and implications of the design support policy of government in the creation of the designer-makers' business ecosystem through the analysis of 'Young man's Creative Work & Startup Support Project'. This case, which aims to cultivate a design brand based on maker technology and to create jobs for young people, suggests the role of government as a creative culture creator so that designer-makers are able to create creative activities in a more free and creative atmosphere. Furthermore, this study emphasizes the importance of efficient integration and reorganization of similar maker support policies implemented by each government department, the necessity of a roadmap for realizing this, and the support for quality improvement. As a result, the design support policy of government for the designer-makers' business activation should evolve into the qualitative development of intellectual property based on a mature shared culture and the discovery of a new production paradigm model of the manufacturing industry based on the open manufacturers beyond the economic and numerical goals of creating new jobs.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.181-189
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• 2015

As a study on entrepreneurship and venture companies to support, this research is to find how to inflow the fund which is provided by private companies. This is to propose a shared platform for Information for connecting producers and consumers, corporate investors to help fund inflows to private companies and utilization of the enterprise information collected by government. Entrepreneurship support policies, as one of economy activation have a limit in the size of the support of the government therefore support continued growth through aggressive inflow of private funds is needed. It is significant to provide the environment that private funds could spill into the environment to provide for excellent start-up companies.

• Journal of Information Technology and Architecture
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.137-145
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• 2013

Until recently, Korean government had supported Start-Up Investment Subsidies to the early stage of non-metropolitan manufacturing company for the purpose of promoting start-up and new job creation. As a result, for 4 years, there are total of 1.546 trillion won increase of sales and a total of 3,825 people have been hired including non-regular workers. In this paper, I suggest the performance of Start-Up Investment Subsidy and policy direction for improvement.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.221-249
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• 2006

최근 세계는 경제블록화가 급속한 진행되는 한편 EU가입국의 확대, 중국의 WTO 가입을 비롯하여 정보통신기술의 발달에 따른 무역 패러다임의 변화 등으로 급격한 전환기를 맞이하고 있다. 이러한 무역환경의 변화에 신속히 대처하기 위해 우리나라는 폭넓은 무역지원정책을 추진하고 무역관리체계를 정비하고 있음에도 불구하고 기대만큼의 실효를 거두지 못하고 있으며, 중소기업들은 국내외 경기의 지속적인 침체로 점차 해외경쟁력을 잃어가고 있다. 수출진흥을 위한 정책지원 전략은 무역환경의 변화에 대한 정확한 인식을 바탕으로 하여 무역중소기업의 무역마케팅구조를 근본적으로 개선하는데 궁극적인 목표를 두고 현장실무지원 중심으로 체계적이고 종합적인 수출지원사업 실행방안을 마련하는 일이 우선시 되어야 할 것이다. 따라서 본고에서는 국내 수출중소기업들을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하여 이를 바탕으로 정부 수출지원사업 활용현황과 무역진흥정책 추진에 따른 향후과제를 검토 분석해보고, 나아가 기업들과 정부 유관기관과의 협력방안을 도출하는데 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.75-84
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• 2017

The prolonged economic slowdown has forced many youths to opt for starting a business instead of seeking employment. Universities have shown their interest in startup training by opening startup courses and encouraging relevant student communities, while at the same time helping their students land a job. Along with this, the government has been implementing various policies through creative economy and youth startup initiatives, but the resulting quantitative growth has not been supported by a commensurate level of qualitative growth and this has created problems on the supplier side, such as by producing redundant functions and roles in multiple projects and inefficient investment. This study, which aims at proposing a direction towards more active support and thus helping the government achieve qualitative accomplishments that can match its effort in terms of quantitative growth, analyzes the current status of startup support of universities in Korea by examining the data regarding training programs and projects, and highlights the issues stemming from startup organizations in colleges. It also suggests solutions for improving in-college startup training and establishing an interlinked system among the relevant bodies in and out of college, with the hope that the results and alternatives proposed in this study will be utilized as the basis for more active student startup support activities.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.27-31
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• 2019

정부는 2018.2.8일 국정현안점검조정회의를 통해 국무조정실, 금융위원회, 기획재정부, 고용노동부, 중소벤처기업부 등 관계부처 합동으로 "사회적금융 활성화 방안"을 최종 확정하였다. 한국의 사회적금융은 보조 기부행위가 아닌 투자 융자 보증 등 회수를 전제로 사회적기업, 협동조합, 자활기업, 마을기업 등 사회적경제기업에게 다양한 자금을 지원하는 금융활동 전반을 말한다. 현재 민간의 자발적인 금융지원활동도 일부 있으나, 정부 공공재원 중심으로 기존의 서민금융진흥원의 사회적기업 신용대출, 중진공의 정책자금 대출, 신보 지신보 특례보증, 사회적기업 모태펀드 등 중기 서민 정책금융체계내의 사업이 대다수를 차지하고 있는 실정이다. 한국의 사회적금융은 미국과 일본, 영국 등의 선진국에 비하면 이제 태동기로서, 사회적경제기업은 자금 공급부족, 제도 금융권에서의 소외 등 자금조달에 큰 애로를 겪고 있다. 따라서, 공공부문 주도로 자금공급을 확대하고 있으나, 사회적경제기업의 자금수요에는 아직도 크게 미치지 못하는 상황이다. 특히, 지원방식이 짧은 만기, 대출 보증에 편중되는 등 사회적경제의 특수성에 대한 고려가 미흡하여 수요-공급 간 미스매치도 큰 상황과 자금수요자와 투자자를 이어주는 사회적금융 중개기관, 사회적성과 평가 등 시장 인프라도 전반적으로 크게 미비 되어 있어 민간의 참여를 제약하는 것도 그 이유이다. 본 연구에서는 한국의 시회적금융지원제도의 전반적인 현장의 실태를 중심으로 실무적인 측면에서 분석 및 향후과제를 도출하여 관계기관 등에 정책적인 시사점을 제공하고자 한다.