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Youth Startup Firms: A Case Study on the Survival Strategy for Creating Business Performance (청년창업기업의 창업초기 생존전략 : 중진공 청년전용자금 활용기업 사례)

  • Lee, Seung-Chang;Lim, Won-Ho;Suh, Eung-Kyo
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.81-88
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    • 2014
  • Purpose - Entrepreneurship promotion is emerging as an important economic growth agenda. However, in Korea, entrepreneurship has weakened because of the collapse of the venture bubbles of the 2000s and the global economic recession in 2008, which have induced the business community to choose stability over risk. The Korean government has been implementing several support projects to inspire and promote youth entrepreneurship through various means including financial assistance; however, the perpetuation rate of young entrepreneurship is still low as compared to advanced economies such as the US and EU. This case study focuses on the Youth Start-Up Business Support Program of the Small & Medium Business Corporation, and explores practical alternatives. Further, it aims to suggest managerial factors and a conceptual model for change management factors affecting the business performance creation of a startup company, based on the Small and medium Business Corporation's young venture startup fund. Research design, data, and methodology - Many studies examine the current progress and issues of startup firms, for example, a lack of systematic cultivation of entrepreneurship and startup business training, lack of commercialization funding for youth startup businesses, lack of mentoring, and inadequate infrastructure. From prior research, we address four factors, namely, personal managerial capabilities, innovative business model, sufficient cash flow, and social network, affecting startup companies' business performance. This study involved a sample survey of 200 young entrepreneurs to investigate casual relations between the four factors and business performance. A regression analysis was used to verify the hypotheses. Results - First, in relation to differences in the founder's personal characteristics, age, sales amount, and number of employees significantly impact business performance. Second, regarding the causal relation between the four factors for creating business performance, an innovative business model and social networking have supported the hypotheses, revealing that the more that a start-up founder has an innovative business model and social networking, the more the start-up firms are likely to have better performance (e.g., sales volume, employment, ROE, ROI, etc.). Although the founder's competency and sufficient cash flow have no significant relationship with business performance, the mean value was higher performance for high founder's competency and sufficient cash flow. Conclusions - This study provides basic data on policy support strategies of the Small and Medium Business Corporation, to help young entrepreneurs achieve their start-up business goals. It shows that young entrepreneurship startup firms should strive to explore ideas to satisfy customers' needs, and that changes in customer value and the continuous innovation of business model differentiation are required to actively respond to change management. Moreover, at the infant startup stage, they should activate social network programs to share information, thereby offsetting resource scarcity and managing business risk. Further, the establishment of a long-term vision and the implementation of training programs in related specific fields should be supported to strengthen founders' personal capabilities.

The Effects of Individual Characteristics and Entrepreneurship on Entrepreneurial Intentions: Moderating effect of Hofstede's Cultures Dimensions (개인 특성 및 기업가정신이 창업의도에 미치는 영향: 홉스테드 문화특성의 조절 효과를 중심으로)

  • Oh, Hae Dong;Choi, Jiyeon;Noh, Jeon Pyo
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.35-48
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    • 2016
  • Individual characteristics and entrepreneurship are important factors to determine entrepreneurial intentions. Despite this, little attention has been given to external factors, which effects to venture start-up decision. This study examines the relationship between individual characteristics and entrepreneurship by moderating effect of Hofstede's cultures dimensions theory. For this, 244 copies of the questionnaire were empirically analyzed. According to the results of analysis, internal locus of control, self-efficacy were found to have positive effects on autonomy, innovativeness, pro-activeness. In addition, uncertainty avoidance of Hofstede's cultures dimensions theory were found the moderating effects on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intentions. Therefore, this study suggests theoretical and practical implications, as below, according to the results. Firstly, pro-activeness take a important part on venture start-up. Thus, venture start-up institution and venture managers need to develop "venture education curriculum" that fostering the pro-activeness mind of entrepreneur. Secondly, In order to anticipate entrepreneurial intentions more precisely, analyzing the interaction between environmental variables and individual variables is desirable. Lastly, in the future study of entrepreneurship, the comprehensive analysis of correlation between the factors that including three factors of entrepreneurship is need to be conducted and more effective way of readdressing the entrepreneurship is necessary.

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Exploratory study on a psychological traits changes by entrepreneurship short-term education (단기 창업교육이 예비창업자의 심리적 특성 변화 영향에 대한 탐색적 연구)

  • Lee, Seung-Jae;HwangBo, Yun
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.19-44
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    • 2010
  • This study intend to analyze effect on a change mental feature of founder received entrepreneurship short-term education called the successful foundation package. In other words, what kind of change the mental feature of founder before and after entrepreneurship education. The founder of the psychological characteristics include the locus of control, risk-taking propensity, need for achievement, ambiguity tolerance and specially new psychological trait, that is, creativity. The result of paired T-test and ANCOVA on pre-founders who received Entrepreneurship short-term education which called successful business start-up package is that need for achievement, ambiguity tolerance and creativity among pre-founders' psychological characteristics are enhanced by Entrepreneurship short-term education. However ANCOVA shows that there are no psychological characteristics changes according to age, education, the number of Entrepreneurship education.

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Effect of Entrepreneur's Characteristics on the Intention of Entrepreneruship -Focusing on the Moderating Effect of Entrepreneurship Mentoring in Korean- (창업가의 특성요인이 창업의지에 미치는 영향 -국내 창업 멘토링의 조절 효과를 중심으로-)

  • Yook, Chang-Hwan;Jeon, In-Oh
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.661-676
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    • 2014
  • Due to current economic recessions, interest on entrepreneurship and/or business start-up is getting increased beyond sex and ages. Currently business start-up of university students and retirement to age limit in silver generation are getting increased day by day. As a part of preparation against those phenomenons, this investigation try to show the effect of characteristic factors of entrepreneurs on the will of business establishment In this study, in order to analyse effects on business establishment, survey was conducted for 328 pre and existed entrepreneurs. For collected datas, reliability analysis, factor analysis and correlation analysis were conducted via spss20 statistical program and lastly, through regression analysis, following conclusions were drawn. At first, the will of business establishment was effected by personal characteristic and environmental factor. in second, the mentoring of business establishment was effected by personal characteristic and environmental factor In particular, the will of business establishment was controlled by mentoring of business establishment which was effected by environmental factor.

Five Year's Follow-up of the Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among the Low Level Organic Solvent Exposure Workers (저농도 유기용제 노출 사업장 근로자의 심혈관질환 위험인자 변화 추적(2008~2012))

  • Kim, Mi-Ae
    • Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.67-75
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effects of occupational exposure to low dose organic solvents on the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors. Methods: Study design was retrospective cohort study subjected on 191 exposures and 118 controls working in a petrochemical manufacture company. The eight indicators related to CVD risk were followed up for five years from 2008 to 2012. The risk level was compared during the follow up years and subject's characteristics, and the change of risk level were analyzed with repeated measures ANOVA and multiple logistic regression analysis. Results: At the start year 2008, the rate over cutoff value (ROCV) of BS (p<.001) and mean systolic BP (p=.017) were higher in organic solvent exposure group and the others showed no difference. And by the subject's characteristics, odds ratio of the ROCV of BS were higher in organic solvent exposure group and work shift group as 2.51 and 3.07. Comparing the results in 2012 to those of 2008, cardiovascular disease risk in organic solvent exposure group was about 1.5 times higher than that of in the control group. Conclusion: Gradual increase in the CVD risk was identified in organic solvent exposure group. However, the risk might be influenced by shift work and bad behaviors rather than organic solvent exposure.

Electric-optical Characteristics of LED Flat Light Source in Low Temperature Condition (저온환경에서의 LED 평판 조명의 전기광학적 특성에 대한 연구)

  • Choi, Dae Seub
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2015.07a
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    • pp.940-941
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    • 2015
  • LCD (liquid crystal display) industry is needed to goods of high reliability and is interested in products without harmful material. In this experiment, we made the LED backlight unit for Automotive-navigation. And for making this backlight unit we used to eight side emitting type white LEDs with 1W high power of the lumileds company. We could know that this backlight unit releases to 6500 nit in 14W power consumption and start up voltage time is under the15ms in the ambient temperature $-20^{\circ}C$.

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Analysis of Performance in Fostering the Companies Occupied in Technopark and its Characteristics: Focusing on Growth Path and Type (테크노파크 입주기업 육성의 성과 및 특성 분석: 성장경로 및 유형을 중심으로)

  • Seulbee Lee;Myungjun Oh;Jinhee Bae;Seseon Ryou
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.531-546
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    • 2022
  • This study analyzes the performance and characteristics of the fostering policies for the focusing on growth path and type occupied in the Technoparks. First, the companies occupied in the Technoparks have shown the characteristics of landing on an actual growth phase beyond the start-up and fostering phases, and when considering the possession of a dedicated R&D organization and the portion of highly educated technical personnel having masters and doctorate degrees, these companies have also entailed the characteristics of being a technological innovation company. Second, about 30% of the companies that left the Technoparks secured their own factories and offices after standing alone, indicating that the fostering function after startup in the Technoparks has been performing a significant role on the growth path of start-up companies from a temporal perspective. Third, a majority of the companies occupied in the Technoparks were composed of scale-up companies or preliminary scale-up companies that contained promising innovative growth potential. However, it seems to urgently require the acceleration of innovation because many companies are categorized into a stagnated growth type that demonstrates a high R&D investment but low sales revenue growth.

A Study on The Success Factors of Youth Enterprises (청년창업 성공요인에 관한 연구: 창업전문가를 대상으로)

  • Shim, Hyeon Min;Seol, Byung Moon
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2022
  • This study derived the success factors of youth enterprises by applying the Delphi Method to start-up experts. Through this, it aims to improve understanding of youth enterprises in entrepreneurship education and start-up support projects and contribute to the development of education and support programs suitable for youth enterprises. Also The purpose of this study is to help youth entrepreneurs solve their curiosity about the success factors of youth enterprises, identify the factors that youth entrepreneurs should first secure or perform among the factors they need to consider during start-ups, and use limited resources efficiently and effectively to succeed. In this study, the Delphi Survey was conducted twice in total. The first Delphi Survey utilized the Modified Delphi Method using structured closed-ended questions, and a pilot test was conducted on youth entrepreneurs and start-up experts to compensate for the problem of the Modified Delphi Method. In the first Delphi Survey, IBM SPSS Statistics 22 and Microsoft Office Excel 2016 were used to calculate the mean, standard deviation, median, interquartile range, and content validity ratio. In the Delphi 2nd survey, the same statistical values in the 1st survey and additionally cronbach's alpha were calculated. As a result of the Delphi Survey, four factors, such as the entrepreneurial characteristics, entrepreneurial preparation, entrepreneurial strategy, and entrepreneurial environment, and 22 sub-factors were derived as success factors for youth enterprises.

Modeling and Tuning of 2-DOF PID Controller of Gas turbine Generation Unit by ANFIS (적응형 신경망-퍼지 추론법에 의한 가스터빈 발전 시스템의 모델링 및 2자유도 PID 제어기 튜닝)

  • 김동화
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.30-37
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    • 2000
  • We studied on acquiring of transfer function and tuning of 2-DOF PID controller using ANFIS for the optimum control to turbine's variables variety. Since the shape of a membership function in the ANFIS based on the characteristics of plant. ANFIS based control method is effective for plant that its variable vary. On the other hand, a start-up time is very short and its variable's value for optimal start-up in gas turbine should be varied, but it is very difficult for such a controller to design. In this paper, we tune 2-DOF PID controller after apply a ANFIS to the operating data of Gun-san gas turbine and verify the characteristics. Its results is compared to the conventional PID controller and discuss. We expect this method will be used for another process because it is studied on the real operating data.

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The Effect of the Variation of Pressure Ratio on the Characteristics of Lateral Forces in an Over-Expanded Nozzle (압력비 변화과정이 과팽창 노즐에서 발생하는 횡력 변동 특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Jong-Sung;Kim, Heuy-Dong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.38-44
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    • 2010
  • The shock wave and boundary layer interaction patterns in an over-expanded rocket nozzle are associated with the production of undesirable side-forces during the start-up and shut-down processes of the engine. In the present work, a computational study is carried out to investigate the effect of the transient nozzle pressure ratio (NPR) on the flow fields inside the nozzle. The unsteady, compressible, axisymmetric, Navier-Stocks equations with SST k-${\omega}$ turbulence model are solved using a fully implicit finite volume scheme. NPR is varied from 2.0 to 10.0, in order to simulate the start-up and shut-down processes of the rocket engine. It is observed that the interaction patterns and the hysteresis phenomenon strongly depend on the time variation of NPR, leading to significantly different characteristics in the lateral forces.