• Korea Trade Review
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.155-175
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• 2018

This study estimates the technical efficiency and total factor productivity(TFP) of and analyzes the relationship between TFP and exports for Korean manufacturing companies from 2000 to 2016. Specially, TFP is decomposed into Technical Change(TC), Technical Efficiency Change (TEC), and Sale Effect(SE), and compared between large and small enterprises. First, in the case of technical efficiency, the Korean economy has been very vulnerable to external shocks, such as the sharp decline following the 2008 financial crisis. The efficiency of the electronics, automobile, and machinery sectors is low and needs to be improved. In addition, the technological efficiency of large enterprises is higher than that of SMEs in most manufacturing sub-sectors except for non-ferrous metals. In the case of TFP, most changes are due to TC, and the effective combination of labor, capital and the effect of scale have little effect, suggesting that improvement of internal structure is urgent. In addition, volatility due to the impact of the financial crisis in 2008 was much larger in SMEs than in large companies, so external economic impacts are more greater for SMEs than large enterprises. The relationship between TFP decomposition factors and exports shows that TC has a positive effect only on exports of SMEs. Therefore, in order to increase exports, in the case of SMEs, R&D support to promote technological development is needed. In the case of large companies, it is necessary to establish differentiated strategies for each export market, competitor company, and item to link efficiency and scale effect of exports.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-13
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to find out which factors determine the success of start-up in the initial market and what are the most important determinants. For the empirical analysis, the questionnaire related to the analysis of success factors for start-up success was designed according to the quantitative analysis (AHP technique). First, we selected 8 representative success factors for successful start-up in the initial market. In order to determine the degree of priority among these factors, we surveyed 12 entrepreneurs who are interested in entrepreneurship, universities, research institutes, and public officials. As a result of the empirical analysis, 51% of the funds in the tier 1 were ranked as the top priority to determine success factors. Followed by research and development (32.5%), management (8.7%) and marketing (7.8%). In particular, when each of the four items is calculated as 100 according to the result of the tier 1, and the tier 2 is converted, the foreign investment is analyzed as 43.7%. It was followed by 15.14% of R & D facilities, 14.07% of ideas, 8.7% of managerial ability, 7.29% of domestic investment, 5.85% of buyer feedback, 3.3% of development strategy and 1.95% of marketing strategy. Among the eight success factors, overseas investment items showed the closest preference to half, and it was the most important variable that determines the success or failure of market entry. The implication of this study is that many start-ups in Korea expect to receive investment and support from overseas accelerators. This means that overseas investment itself has been recognized as a start-up that makes services and products that can be used in the global market. A high preference for attracting foreign investment is due to the fact that the amount of investment is larger than that of Korea and that it can flexibly cope with the pressure on the performance compared to domestic investors. In this study, it was meaningful that we could confirm this fact through questionnaires of start-up experts. In future research, we need to find a viable alternative through studying how to provide start-up to foreign direct investment at the national level.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.13-35
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• 2020

Startup accelerators are a new type of investors providing a certain amount of shares for imparting education, mentoring, networking, and providing space and seed money that can directly resolve the difficulties faced by nascent entrepreneurs (Clarysse, 2016). Startup accelerators have expanded worldwide as their influence over the startup ecosystem has increasingly been established (Pauwels et al., 2016; Cohen & Hochberg, 2014). This study was conducted to derive investment determinants of startup accelerators that are emerging as major investment players around the world. To this end, the accelerator-type determinants of investment were derived. As previous research on this topic is nonexistent, this process involved qualitative meta-synthesis, literature reviews, observation, and in-depth interviews. First, more than 30 research papers were examined for the determinants of investment for firms at an early stage of their foundation, and the categories and determinants of investment in the relevant studies were comparatively analyzed using qualitative meta-synthesis. Further, related data were investigated to identify the characteristics of accelerators, and the startup evaluation process of US accelerators was studied. The more than 100 questions raised during this process were coded to examine the determinants of investment that accelerators considered important. In-depth interviews were conducted with four US accelerators to identify the characteristics of accelerators and key determinants of investment. Ultimately, 5 categories of accelerator-type determinants of investment and 26 subordinate determinants of investment were derived. The results were verified and supplemented by consulting with seven accelerators in Korea. The results were confirmed after pilot tests and verification by seven domestic accelerators. After confirming the accelerator-type determinants, the reliability of them was verified by examining the importance and priority of each category through the quantitative survey of Korean accelerators. The research that elicited the accelerator-type investment determinants is the first research and is expected to be a major reference to the progress of subsequent studies. This research that systematically derived the investment determinants of the accelerator is expected to make major contributions to the progress of follow-up studies, the process of selecting startups, and the investment decision-making process of the accelerators.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-19
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• 2021

The purpose of this research is to improve the investment success rate for startups in the water industry for the development of the entrepreneurial environment of the Korean water industry. In this research, we identified investment determinants through prior research and stratified them, and then surveyed the investor group at the beginning of the start-up using the FGI method, and determined the order of the investment determinants of investors. At the same time, we classified 41 start-ups related to the water industry into two groups: the group that received investment and the group that did not in the early stages of the start-up. Then we investigated the understanding of the investor's investment determinants, ranked them, and compared them by using the AHP technique. Through this, this research proposes five implications. First, it is important for start-ups in the early stages to receive seed investment to revitalize investment for startups in the water industry. For this, startups need to understand investors and prepare to attract investment with the perspective of angel investors rather than the perspective of VC investors. Second, Start-ups in the water sector should consider that the characteristics of the founder are important in order to receive seed investment, and also need to define their business at the industry and market level, and provide relevant rationale to meet the expectations of investors who value industry expertise and experience, and to increase the possibility of seed investment, which is important in the early stages of a startup. Third, institutions, such as K-water(Korea Water Resources Corporation), that support water industry startups need to conduct open innovation business opportunities discovery programs linked to startups so that startups currently participating in the startup support program could have business opportunities from the business infrastructure of platform-forming companies in the water industry. In particular, such institutions should help founders develop their industrial expertise and careers by supporting this type of start-up preparation process through the participation of in-house venture founders. Fourth, when K-water uses the government start-up support fund to discover and foster founders, it should increase initial contact with seed investors, conduct more thorough verification of business plans, and develop programs that use government start-up support funds to prepare a business suitable for seed angel investors. Fifth, K-water should support seed by connecting funds for initial investment among funds operated by itself. It is also necessary to develop a program that links the company receiving the seed investment with VC investment, not angel investment in cooperation with the VC fund operation entity participating as an LP so that companies that have attracted seed investment could attract follow-up VC investment.

• Venture DIGEST
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• s.92
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• pp.36-37
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• 2006

멕시코는 잠재적 시장성과 아메리카 대륙의 교두보로서의 중요성에 비해 우리에게는 그리 잘 알려지지 않은 시장이다. 몇몇 대기업과 섬유·화학 중소기업이 직접투자 형태로 진출해 있을 뿐 중소기업들 대부분은 초기단계에 머물고 있다. 멕시코 시장의 잠재력과 가능성을 소개함으로써 기술력 있는 중소·벤처기업들의 멕시코 진출이 늘어나는 계기가 되었으면 한다.

• Nuclear industry
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• v.8 no.5 s.63
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• pp.25-46
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• 1988

미국을 비롯한 일부 선진국에서 초기에 건설된 원자력발전소는 이제 그 이용년한이 다 되어가고 있으며, 또한 전세계적으로 원전건설에 대한 투자가 저조한 가운데 기존 원자력발전소의 수명을 연장시킴으로써 발전소 전수명기간의 발전코스트를 저감시켜 경제성 향상을 도모하고자 하는 연구가 미국, 프랑스, 일본 등에서 활발히 진행되고 있다. 다음은 우리나라 인접국인 일본에서 현재 실시되고 있는 원자로 장수명화대책을 중심으로 미국과 프랑스의 연구개발 동향을 소개한 것이다.

• TTA Journal
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• s.92
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• pp.86-91
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• 2004

초기에 많은 관심과 투자가 집중되었던 VoIP 서비스가 여러 가지 이유로 그 동안 침체되어 왔으나, 향후 통신 서비스 사업자의 차세대 네트워크 및 광대역 통합망 도입과 함께 각종 규제와 제도가 정비됨에 따라 점차 활성화될 것으로 예상하고 있다. 본 고에서는 향후 수요가 증가할 것으로 기대되는 VoIP 장비 시험 인증에 대해 현재 TTA에서 제공하는 있는 시험 서비스에 대해 소개한다.

• Bio news
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• no.5
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• pp.6-7
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• 2004

2000년도를 기점으로 바이오 붐을 타고 많은 신약 및 바이오 관련 기업들이 설립되었고 이에 4년여의 시간이 경과되었다. 초기 바이오벤처는 국책과제, 투자유치 등을 통해 기반 연구를 수행하였으나, 현재는 기업 생존을 위해 지금까지 수행된 연구결과를 사업화하고 수익을 창출하기 위한 다각적인 노력을 기울이고 있는 시점이다. 많은 바이오 벤처들은 궁극적으로 맞춤의약시대에 걸맞은 신약개발, 장기이식, 유전자치료 등의 목표를 설정해 두고 있다. 그러나 이러한 목

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2006.05b
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• pp.986-992
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• 2006

• The Magazine for Energy Service Companies
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• s.28
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• pp.34-47
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• 2004

열병합 발전시스템의 경우 전력과 열을 균형있게 사용하고 배열의 유효이용을 극대화하여 에너지 절약을 실천함으로서 초기투자비용을 빠른 기간 내에 회수할 수 있도록 시스템 선정의 신중한 계획 및 검토가 요구되며 이에 따른 정량적인 경제성의 추산을 실시하여야한다.