• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.173-180
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• 2014

In this research, we aim to analyze how different external knowledge search strategies of small and medium enterprises affect technological innovation. In particular, since there has been little comparison between Korean small and medium firms, we investigated the differences of the two groups by employing the "Korean Innovation Survey 2010." As a result, it was found that "external search breadth", which refers to expanding the spectrum of external knowledge search due to lack of resources and capabilities inside small firms, spurred technological innovation. On the other hand, "external search depth", which implies seeking a long-term and close relationship with the subjects that provide outside knowledge for medium firms, catalyzed technological innovation. These results emphasize that we need to separately analyze technological innovation of small and medium firms, which was, in most previous studies, viewed as one group, i.e. SMEs. In addition, the results can be, from the perspective of a firm's growth, interpreted as follows. That is, it is more effective to formulate a "diversity" pursuing strategy in the "small firm" stage where little time has passed since its establishment, whilst it is more useful to apply a "focus" strategy on sophisticated knowledge in the "medium firm" stage where a firm has grown to some extent.

• Corrugated packaging logistics
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• no.55 s.12
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• pp.31-34
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• 2004

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.39-44
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• 2020

지금까지의 투자 의사결정 요인에 관한 연구는 벤처캐피탈 관점에서 이루어져 왔다. 벤처캐피탈이 투자할 만한 가치가 있는 스타트업을 선정하는 요인이 무엇인가 하는 것이 기존의 연구의 핵심이었다. 하지만, 최근 우수한 스타트업의 경우, 많은 벤처캐피탈이 투자를 하기를 원하면서, 오히려 능력 있는 스타트업들은 벤처캐피탈을 선별해서 투자를 받고 있는 현상이 나타나고 있다. 따라서 우수한 스타트업이 벤처캐피탈을 선택하는 결정 요인을 알아봐야 하는 시기가 된 것이다. 본 연구는 창업 초기단계(Series A) 창업가 4명, 중기단계(Series B/C) 창업가 3명을 인터뷰하여 스타트업이 벤처캐피탈을 선정하는 요인을 탐색하고자 한다. 연구 결과, 스타트업이 벤처캐피탈을 선정하는 주요 요인으로는 1) 계약내용, 2) 벤처캐피탈 명성(reputation), 3) 투자 심사역인 것으로 나타났다. 먼저, 초기 및 중기 단계의 스타트업 모두가 중요하게 생각하는 요인은 계약내용으로, 구체적으로는 가치평가 (valuation)와 우호적인 투자조건으로 나타났다. 다음으로, 벤처캐피탈의 명성 (reputation)의 경우, 벤처캐피탈이 지금까지 투자해 왔던 회사들의 면면 (portfolio)과 투자한 후, 후속 투자를 하는 경향 (Follow-on)을 중요시 하는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로, 벤처캐피탈을 선정할 때, 창업 초기 단계에서는 상대적으로 투자심사역의 영향이 컸고, 창업 중기 단계 이후로 갈수록 투자심사역 개인보다는 회사 차원의 벤처캐피탈의 영향력이 커짐을 발견하였다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.183-197
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• 2009

The purpose of this paper is to study whether there are differences in the relationship between IT utilization level and organizational performance among large, medium and small-sized enterprises. This study first assessed the immediate influence of IT utilization level on organizational performance, and then further examined the moderating effects of the organizational size and the environmental dynamism that had influences on the relationship between IT utilization level and organizational performance. The empirical test revealed that IT utilization level had significant impact on organizational performance in case of all sized enterprises. But, the sub-group analysis revealed that IT utilization level had no statistically significant impact on organizational performance in case of large enterprises despite of higher IT utilization level than small and medium-sized enterprises. The relationship between IT utilization level and organizational performance was not moderated significantly by environmental dynamism in case of all sized enterprises. But, the sub-group analysis revealed that environmental dynamism had significant moderating effect on the relationship between IT utilization level and organizational performance in case of large and small-sized enterprises when there was a high level of environmental dynamism.

• Photonics industry news
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• s.34
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• pp.68-71
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• 2006

• Information Systems Review
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.51-61
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• 1999

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.339-350
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• 2011

This study empirically investigates applicable possibility of open technology innovation with which the government is concerned, by figuring out the relationship between firms' innovation behaviors and innovation outputs and their utilization of information network. Empirical methodology was employed as logit regression to explain firms' innovation behaviors and the data set includes more than 2500 firms in the manufacturing sectors. First, empirical findings showed that firms' innovation competencies and behaviors can be explained as the trend of patent application, sales and innovation outputs significantly. The patents of small and medium-sized businesses are inclined to be positive to information sources of university and government-supported research institute and the sales increased when they had labs to concentrate on R&D. On the other hand, the existence of labor union turn out to be negative to their sales. Second, the types of information network which firms utilize turned out to be connected with their innovation behaviors and purposes. Third, four types of innovation, i.e., product, process, organization, and marketing innovation was employed and innovation behaviors and outputs are well connected.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.509-530
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• 2007

This paper examined the relationship between innovation and firm performance by integrating industry competitive context and firm-level knowledge constructs. After controlling for firm site, age, and the presence of a union, cross-section analysis of survey data from 1,419 medium sized manufacturing firms yielded following findings. The first was the expected positive relationship between firm-level innovation and firm knowledge and also industry dynamism, as measured by the intensity of industry-level R&D. This results indicate that industries with greater aggregate levels of R&D intensity are home to higher rates of firm-level innovative activity and managers must increase their numbers of technical staff and the level of training. But the interaction between firm knowledge and industry dynamism was non-significant. Second, innovation was not significantly related to firm performance, as measured by revenue growth. This relationship was not moderated by industry dynamism and firm level knowledge. In high and low technology sectors, the relationship between innovation and performance was non-significant, consistent with the full-sample analysis. The results suggest that the effects of firm-level knowledge assets and investments in training don't work in different ways in different industry settings. This research used three control variables to analyze innovation and firm performance. Firm age was negatively associated with firm performance and did not significantly predict innovation. Firm size was positively associated with innovation and performance in the low-technology sector. The presence of a labor union was not a significant with respect to innovation.

• Photonics industry news
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• s.67
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• pp.26-27
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• 2011

LED조명과 데스크톱PC, 내비게이션, 디지털도어록, 정수기 5대 품목은 동반성장이 어려운 쟁점 품목이다. 한 쪽이 승리하면 다른 한 편은 피해를 보는 구조다. 대기업과 중소기업 간 이해 다툼뿐만 아니라 대기업 하도급업체 수익과도 직결된다. 의견 접근이 쉽지 않다. 업계 관계자는 "업계 합의나 양보가 이뤄지기 힘든 구조로 11월 초 동반성장위 최종 판단이 중요하다" 고 말했다.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.5-11
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• 1988

고부가가치의 산업은 적극 육성하여 국부를 급속히 확장하면서 국제경쟁력이 아주 뒤지는 저임 금공산품은 과감히 수입을 확대하는 과감한 경제정책의 변환이 필요한 때가 되었다. 이 정책의 변환에 대비한 필자의 의견을 요약하면 다음과 같다. (1) 세계적인 기술혁신은 가속될 것이며 한국의 대기업들은 종합등급 8을 조속히 소화하고 종합등급의 고도기술분야에서 선진국과 경쟁 하여야 한다. (2) 앞으로 적극 육성할 국제분업산업의 주체는 종합등급 5∼7의 중기업이며 적 절한 기술혁신과 기술인력의 고급화 노력이 조직적으로 경주되어야 한다. (3) 국제분업유망공 업을 육성하는 방안의 기본은 필요한 수준의 고급기술인력을 필요한 기업에 공급하는 것이다. 지금과 같이 대기업의 고급기술인력독점은 지양되어야 한다. (4) 공업기술의 3 기본기술중 가장 낙후된 신뢰성 확보기술은 정부의 적극적인 육성책 없이는 발전시킬 수 없다. 정부의 강력한 육성정책을 기대해 본다.