• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.45-53
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• 2015

This study validates the effectiveness of Hackathon Education which is popular entrepreneurship education method. And to reveal how entrepreneurship affects willingness of entrepreneurship and its team commitment. In addition, this study is to examine the moderating effect of transformational leadership in the relationship between entrepreneurship and its performance. The results show that entrepreneurship has no statistically significant result, but has positive impact on the willingness of entrepreneurship. However, moderating effect was proved between entrepreneurship and willingness of entrepreneurship. Therefore, entrepreneurship has positive effect on willingness by complementary relationship of transformational leadership Furthermore, entrepreneurship has positive impact on its team commitment and even though statistically not proven but also transformational leadership can affect its team commitment by interaction of entrepreneurship.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.49-62
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• 2016

Technology-based start-ups have great economic ripple effect such as economic growth and job creation. Therefore, a strategic approach is required in order for such start-ups to continuously grow. However, many technology-based start-ups do not survive the Death-Valley and are being eliminated from the market. This is an empirical study on influencing variables that have impact on their performance. This study presents growth intention and influencing variables that have impact on performance (financial performance, technological performance) based on previous research on technology-based start-up. Also, this study examines the relationship between entrepreneurial competence, team commitment and growth intention, and finds the effect of controlling business-network. Structural equation modeling was performed in order to test the research hypothesis. Survey was conducted on the firms that have been certified by Youth Startup Academy of Small and Medium Business Corporation. A total of 306 samples were collected from the survey. An empirical test was conducted on the research hypothesis using SPSS 21.0 and Amos 22.0. The result of hypothesis test shows that growth intention has positive influence on both financial and technological performance, and entrepreneurial competence (technological competence, strategic management competence, creative competence and team commitment) has positive influence on growth intention. Also, the research proved that business-network has regulation effect between human resource trait and growth intention. The result of our study will provide practical insight to future start-ups for continuous growth and successful running of their firm.