• 지식경영연구
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.177-205
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• 2022

중소기업은 상대적으로 작은 규모와 제한된 자원으로 인해 혁신의 효율성과 효과성을 높이기 위해 개방형 혁신에 참여한다. 기존 연구들은 중소기업이 수행하는 다양한 유형의 개방형 혁신활동의 성과효과를 연구하였으나, 특히 결합형 개방형 혁신활동의 성과효과에 대한 결과가 혼재한 상황이다. 이에 본 연구는 중소기업의 결합형 개방형 혁신협력활동을 'R&D 협력활동'과 'R&D 이외의 협력활동'으로 세분화하여, 각 활동이 기업의 혁신성과와 재무성과에 미치는 효과를 Heckman의 2단계 모형을 적용하여 검정하였다. 분석 데이터로는 과학기술정책연구원(STEPI) 주관의 국가승인통계인 '2020년 한국기업혁신조사: 제조업 부문' 자료를 활용하였다. 분석결과 중소기업의 R&D 협력활동은 시장최초 상품혁신 성과에만 유의미한 정(+)의 효과가 있고, R&D 이외의 협력활동은 상품혁신, 비즈니스프로세스혁신, 시장최초 상품혁신, 자사최초 상품혁신 모두에 유의미한 정(+)의 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 두 유형의 혁신협력활동 모두 재무성과에는 유의미한 효과가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 이러한 혁신협력활동의 성과효과는 중소기업 내에서도 기업규모에 따라 다른 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 중소기업 맥락의 개방형 혁신 연구에 이론적으로 기여하며, 중소기업 경영자의 혁신전략 수립 및 관련 정책입안자의 정책 방향 도출에 참고가능한 지침을 제공한다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.47-66
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• 2013

Recently, with the diffusion of a new paradigm named as the creative economy, the government's interests and efforts regarding support of SMEs' R&D have been concentrated. In particular, due to the dominant perception that the fundamental science and original technology from government-funded research institutes can further enhance the capabilities of SMEs' R&D, the importance of performance's diffusion on national R&D is further emphasized. In fact, the domestic SMEs don't have enough budget and workforce, so that all of self-contained technologies, product's competitiveness as well as the R&D capabilities, are very vulnerable, and thereby SMEs' commercialization is very likely to fail. For this end, SMEs need to adopt the concept of open innovation as the use of external R&D resources by licensing. In this study, we conducted a survey on a total of 286 domestic IT SMEs, and analyzed empirically to compare the degree of their acceptance on technological innovation between two groups divided by open/not-open innovation. As a result, we drew some of the key factors influencing the acceptance of the SMEs' open technological innovation, and found a variety of implications through them.

• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.461-488
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• 2018

This paper explores the relationship between network cooperation, innovation, internationalization and economic performance of manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of engineering goods industry located in Bangalore city, India. At the outset, it is observed that SMEs receive the maximum assistance in the realm of product specifications. Moreover, they do not resort to manufacturing new products as much as they resort to product modifications or process improvements. Further, it is found (using Chi-square test of independence) that higher the network assistance received from an external network, greater is the innovation performance of SMEs. Subsequently, using analysis of variance (ANOVA), export intensity (proxy for internationalization performance) of SMEs is found to have a significant positive association with both the degree of their network cooperation and of their innovation performance. Lastly, it is observed that higher the degree of each of network cooperation, innovation performance and internationalization performance, better is the economic performance (measured by total sales turnover) of SMEs. These results have significant implications for the policy makers of the country to give due attention to network cooperation, innovation and internationalization as the means of enhancing the economic performance of SMEs.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.101-109
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• 2023

This study examined the relationships among owner-manager characteristics, e-commerce adoption, and performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. Although the growth of e-commerce was encouraging in many countries, studies of e-commerce adoption among SMEs in developing countries such as Malaysia are insufficient. Furthermore, studies that investigated individual characteristics and e-commerce adoption are still low in number. This study specifically employed the technology-organization-environmental (TOE) framework to develop its research model. The sample was selected by using a non-probability judgmental sampling technique because the desired population frame was unavailable. A total of 111 owner-managers of SMEs were surveyed using online self-administered questionnaires. Subsequently, the data was analyzed through partial least square-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results revealed significant relationships between owner-manager characteristics and e-commerce adoption, as well as between e-commerce adoption and the performance of SMEs. The findings suggested that owner-manager characteristics played an important role in determining e-commerce adoption among SMEs. Moreover, e-commerce adoption was crucial in affecting the performance of SMEs. This paper provided new insights into factors affecting e-commerce adoption and firm performance. It could further benefit the government and SMEs in strategizing e-commerce adoption and development, especially in the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0) and the post-COVID-19 pandemic.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.213-220
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• 2017

본 연구는 ICT 분야 중소기업을 대상으로 유일하게 융자금을 지원하고 있는 ICT 융자사업 수혜기업을 대상으로 정책융자금에 대한 전반적인 수요조사를 실시하였으며, 특정 수혜기업을 대상으로 융자지원 받은 기술개발과제의 연구배경 및 연구성과, 파급효과, 기대효과, 에피소드 등을 살펴봄으로써 융자금 지원이 실제적으로 얼마나 ICT 중소기업의 기술적 경제적 성과 제고에 도움을 주고 있는가를 보여주고 있다. 실제로 ICT 분야의 중소기업들은 더 많은 규모의 정책융자금을 요구하고 있으며, 안정적인 자금조달이 기술개발 성공의 핵심요인이자 가장 어려운 과제라는 응답결과를 보여주고 있다. 결과적으로, 기술경쟁력을 지닌 ICT 중소기업들의 기술개발 필요자금을 융자해 주고 나아가 개발된 기술을 사업화함으로써 영세한 기업재정의 건전성을 회복할 수 있는 자금지원 정책을 마련할 필요가 있음을 시사해 주고 있다.

• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.71-91
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to identify the major determinants of performance of the R&D alliances, with an aim toward raising the success rate in cooperative relationships. In particular, this study assesses whether the success factors of purchasing relationship identified in the literature apply equally to SMEs in Korea. The results of this study indicate that inter-firm cooperation, experienced cooperation, and efficiency of government support have positive impacts on the purchase rate of new products. On the other hand, R&D intensity and resources of competencies of the firm do not influence it. Additionally, market attractiveness does not moderate the effects of the five independent variables on the purchase. The extracted determinants according to the results of surveys give valuable and practical hints to the SMEs when they make a decision on their R&D alliances with large enterprises.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.149-156
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• 2016

다양한 분야 간 기술 융복합화와 함께 빠르게 변화하고 있는 오늘날의 사업 환경에서, 신기술 개발 및 기술 사업화 역량은 중소기업의 생존과 성장에 매우 중요하다. 본 연구는 한국의 중소기업으로부터 수집된 2,000개의 데이터를 사용하여 개방형 혁신의 관점을 기반으로 개발된 연구 모형을 실증적으로 검증한다. 본 연구의 실증 분석 결과는 중소기업의 외부 기술협력 네트워크와 외부 정보 네트워크의 다양성이 중소기업의 기술 사업화 역량에 정(+)의 영향을 미치며, 이러한 정(+)의 영향은 중소기업의 신기술 개발 역량에 의하여 완전 매개 된다는 것을 보여준다. 이러한 실증 분석 결과를 바탕으로, 본 연구는 특히 기업가정신을 추구하는 중소기업의 경영자들의 관점에서 의미 있는 시사점을 제공한다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.195-210
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• 2020

This study describes the structure of the capital markets for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and startup companies in Korea, which is an emerging market that has experienced drastic changes. The overall capital market can be divided into private and public capital markets. In the private capital market, most of the demand for capital comes from non-listed private firms, including startups and SMEs. In the case of SMEs and startups, the KOSDAQ, the Korea New Exchange (KONEX), and primary collateralized bond obligations (P-CBOs) are part of the public capital market. SMEs and startups are generally incapable of raising sufficient capital owing to their low credit ratings, and they largely have limited access to primary markets to issue shares and borrow money. The Korean government has developed a systematic financial aid program to provide funds to these companies. The fund for SMEs has significantly contributed to the development of the venture capital market. Many Korean banks provide substantial lending to SMEs, but this lending is available only because of the Korean government's loan recovery guarantee. Furthermore, SMEs can issue corporate debt in the form of primary collateralized bond obligations through government guarantees, but such debt issuances have placed increasing pressure on public guarantee institutions.

• 대한전기학회논문지
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• 제37권10호
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• pp.683-693
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• 1988

For the economical and reasonable operation of electric power system according to continual increase of electric power demand and decrease of load factor, the potential application of superconducting magnertic energy storage [SMES] with high efficiency and fast response in the electric utility is receiving attractive attension. In the light of this background, to confirm the basic principle of SMES, theoretical study, design technique and fabrication procedure for superconducting coil, current lead, cryostat, measuring and protection system of SMES are described in detail. Especially, a new design technique for superconducting coil and current lead is porposed and it was proved experimentally by the performance test of SMES which is developed for the first time in our country. At the peak operating current 200A, the maximum magnetic field amd stored energy of the coil are 3.52T and 2500J, espectively. The thermal and mechanical stability of 2500J SMES is also confirmed experimetally by its characteristics test, AC loss, protection system, charge and discharge test. The experimetal results show good characteristics of energy storage system.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.175-194
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• 2019

In order to overcome the limitation of market orientation concept, Narver et al. (2004) have extended the original concept into two dimensions, responsive market orientation (RMO) and proactive market orientation (PMO), respectively. Yet, there has been very limited empirical studies that analyzed the differential effects of each market orientation on firm outcomes, especially in the Korean context. We analyze the impact of RMO and PMO on the new product performance in the perspective of SMEs and examine the moderating effect of external factors such as environmental uncertainty and market similarity. The results of this study show that both RMO and PMO have a significant positive effect on the new product performance of SMEs. Also, environment uncertainty shows a negative moderating effect on the relationship between RMO and new product performance, whereas it has positive moderation with PMO. This suggests that focusing on potential customers' needs rather than current needs helps improve firm performance as the competitive environment surrounding the firm becomes more uncertain. Lastly, market similarity showed a positive moderating effect on the relationship between RMO and new product performance, but not on PMO.