• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.51-59
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• 2020

The importance of innovative capability, the driving force behind innovation as a company's intangible resources, is increasing. In general, companies with high innovation capability are more likely to be successful in innovation, which can be expected to have a positive impact on corporate performance. The innovation capacity of SMEs considered in this study is R&D capability and manufacturing capability. The reason for this is that not only the continuous efforts to strengthen the competitiveness of SMEs are focused on stabilizing manufacturing capability, but also considering the situation in which governmental support for SMEs' R&D capability has been actively developed. This study examines whether R&D capability and manufacturing capability have a significant influence on corporate performance and securing competitive advantage, and analyzes whether competitive advantage acts as a mediator between innovation capability and corporate performance through regression analysis. SPSS 23.0 software was used for the empirical analysis of the data obtained through the survey. The research results are as follows. First, both R&D and manufacturing capabilities of SMEs were found to have a significant positive effect on corporate performance. Second, manufacturing capability had a significant effect on securing competitive advantage of SMEs, but R&D capability was not significant. Third, the competitive advantage of SMEs was found to play a mediating role between manufacturing capability and corporate performance.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.33-62
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• 2021

본 연구는 기술혁신형 중소기업의 연구개발 활동 효율성을 산업 간 비교하여 개선방안을 제시한다. 연구표본은 2008년부터 2011년까지 기술보증기금의 기술평가보증을 받은 6,708개 기업이다. 투입변수는 기술인력수준과 연구개발투자, 산출변수는 특허출원과 시제품제작실적이다. 효율성은 DEA 모형으로 측정하며, 산업별 개별측정하는 간접비교를 수행한다. 그 결과로 최적의 규모수익을 판단하는 기술효율성(CCR)은 0.19, 최적의 투입분배를 판단하는 순수기술효율성(BCC)은 0.70, 최적의 산출규모를 판단하는 규모효율성(SE)은 0.30으로 나타났다. 산업유형으로 살펴보면, 중·저급기술산업군은 규모효율성이 낮아서 연구성과 확대가 요구되고, 고급·첨단기술산업은 순수기술효율성이 낮아서 투입요소 관리가 필요하다. 산업 전반에 규모의 비효율이 크므로 연구성과 관리를 통한 규모의 확대가 이뤄져야 하며, 이를 위한 연구인력과 투자비의 분배가 병행되어야 효율성이 향상될 것이다. 본 연구는 우리나라 기술혁신형 중소기업에서 연구개발의 비효율성 원인이 규모에 있다는 것을 기술보증기금의 기술평가자료로 규명한 것이 특징이다.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.87-104
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• 2015

Public procurement for innovation is used as one of the major policy tools to stimulate innovation and promote growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Korea. However, it is evaluated that this policy has not been so effective in promoting technological innovation among SMEs largely because it heavily depends on price competitiveness of SMEs products and services. In order to draw some policy implications, this study examines the PPI policies of selected countries as comparative references and conducts an empirical analysis on Korean Public Procurement Services (PPS) data for identifying challenges of the current policy in Korea. We conclude that in order to enhance technological innovations of SMEs, PPI policy in Korea should 1) focus more on the potential competitiveness of SMEs, 2) enlarge public demands especially on R&D services, 3) encourage private sector participation in the public procurement market, 4) improve the assessment criteria for public procurement market registration, and 5) restructure the responsible organizations.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.70-79
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• 2019

Domestic SMEs play a key role in production and employment, accounting for 98.9% of total enterprises, 74.4% of employment, 50.8% of production, and 49.0% of value added (as of 2016). However, they are faced with difficulties of survival because of continuous decrease in profitability, shortage of funds and manpower, insufficient accumulation of technology, minimum wage increase, and 52-hour workweek. In order for SMEs to continue to develop in such a difficult environment, we must constantly innovate our organization by making full use of our knowledge, information, experience and ability. To do this, CEO (management) leadership is very important to ensure that the best people are focused on the organizational innovation and management performance without moving the company. In this study, we wanted to establish empirically how the newly emerging compassionate rationalism leadership of SMEs business managers affected the innovation activities and management performance of companies. Research has shown that management's compassionate rationalism leadership has a positive and significant causal relationship with the innovation activities and management performance of the enterprise. Therefore, SMEs managers need to learn the bottom eight strategic factors of compassionate rationalism leadership and use them strategically to make efforts to create positive emotions for the organization so that members can be immersed in innovative activities and management performance creation.

• 무역학회지
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.221-235
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• 2019

SMEs are experiencing difficulties in doing sales promotion due to the low awareness of the image of the company and the products produced by them in the global market. Therefore, the Government should seek ways to raise awareness of SMEs' image and products. SMEs have to carry out global innovation activities needed to develop new products or new technologies, but they are exposed to limitations of these innovative activities due to the limit of their available resources. Therefore, as a national project, the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the Small and Medium Business Corporation are doing project for fostering and constructing global shopping mall (independent mall) so that SMEs can strengthen their global innovation activities. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to succeeding in the project for fostering and constructing global shopping mall (independent mall) by studying the case of Zungle Incorporation which operates a global shopping mall and greatly increases exports by participating in this project, and identifying success factors of Zungle Incorporation in doing this project.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.77-100
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• 2005

This paper analyzes the determinants of firm's innovative activity, using Korean Innovation Survey (KIS) dataset. Especially, we focused on the role of external networks by partners(other firms or research institutions) in performing innovative activities. The product innovation, product improvement, and process innovation are used as proxies for innovative activity. The explanatory variables such as market concentration ratio, lagged profitability, foreign ownership, export ratio, firm's age, formal R&D activity, and industrial R&D intensity are also considered. With data from 1,124 firms for the two years (2000-2001), we estimated the logistic regression model. The finding is that the determinants of firm's innovative activities differ by type of innovations. We also found that the innovative behavior of SMEs differs from that of large firms. The result confirms that external networks have a strong positive effect on innovative activity. However, the network effects by partners vary across both firm size and type of innovations.

• 중소기업연구
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.1-20
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• 2021

약 22,500개의 서비스업 혁신 중소기업을 대상으로 기술수준에 따른 생존기간을 분석하였다. 생존기간은 연체 및 부도의 발생으로 정의하였으며, 기술수준은 기술력 우수기업 군집(T1-T4등급)과 혁신금융 적합기업 군집(T5-T6등급)으로 구분하였다. 카플란-마이어 분석을 통해 기술수준에 따른 생존기간을 추정한 결과 연체와 부도 모두에서 T1-T4등급 서비스업 혁신 중소기업의 추정 생존기간이 T5-T6등급 서비스업 혁신 중소기업에 비해 유의하게 큰 것으로 확인되었다. 이러한 기술수준의 생존기간에 대한 영향력이 통제변수를 적용했을 때에도 유지되는지 Cox 비례위험 모형을 통해 확인하였다. 분석 결과 창업기업군(업력 7년 이하)에서는 기술수준이 낮을수록 위험도가 증가하는 것으로 확인되었지만, 비(非)창업기업군(업력 7년 초과)에서는 기술수준이 생존기간에 유의한 영향을 미치지 못하며 기업의 규모와 관련된 변수의 영향력이 커지는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 기술수준은 서비스업 창업기업군에서 혁신 중소기업의 생존기간에 유의한 영향력이 있는 부가정보로 의미가 있으며, 서비스업 창업기업군의 중소기업 지원정책 및 육성정책 수립 시 기술수준에 대한 반영이 필요하다는 결론을 도출하였다.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.257-267
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• 2022

혁신인증(벤처인증, 이노비즈인증, 메인비즈인증) 중소기업과 일반 중소기업의 고용효과를 비교·분석하였다. 성향점수매칭을 통해 각 혁신인증별 중소기업과 유사한 성향을 갖는 일반 중소기업을 선별하여 분석을 수행하였으며, 고용효과는 절대적 고용효과인 고용증가율과 상대적 고용효과인 매출액 고용계수의 두 가지 관점에서 접근하였다. 분석 결과 기술혁신형 인증인 벤처인증 기업과 이노비즈인증 기업은 절대적 고용효과에 우위가 있는 것으로 확인되었다. 또한 혁신인증 중소기업은 고용증가 이상의 매출액 성장을 달성하여 일반 중소기업 대비 고용에 여력이 있다는 결론을 도출하였다. 따라서 혁신인증 중소기업에 대한 고용 관련 인센티브의 강화를 통해 혁신인증 중소기업의 고용효과를 제고할 가능성이 있다.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2015

This paper aims to explore the small and medium sized enterprises'(SMEs') technological innovation through an open innovative strategy. Researchers have identified open innovation as external search 'breadth' and 'depth'. Although an open innovation strategy is well known as an effective way for SMEs' innovation, this stream of research examines differences between pursuing breadth of external knowledge and depth of external knowledge for SEMs' innovation. The sample comprises a total of 1106 SMEs included in the Korean Innovation Survey, and logistic regression analysis and odds ratio comparison were used to evaluate the relationship between external knowledge search and innovation outcomes. The results show that both 'breadth' and 'depth' positively affect the SMEs' innovation. When SMEs are simultaneously pursuing external searching for breadth and depth, however, a negative result on innovation outcome followed because of the lack of their internal resources and capacities. Despite these contributions, we have certain limitations that can be regarded as means of future research. Even though breadth and depth are adopted to measure the way of how a firm sources the external knowledge, companies may place the different weight on each source of knowledge. And also, it is difficult to understand how the knowledge gained through external search contributes to a firm's incremental and radical innovation, respectively.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.325-333
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• 2022

This study examined the influence of three elements of individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO), namely innovativeness, risk-taking, and proactiveness on the performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It is worth noting that SMEs have experienced low productivity, low profit, and low performance during the COVID-19 pandemic era. Although several studies have shown that entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is a key factor of company performance, few have focused on IEO. This study employed a quantitative research design because all variables were measurable. It used a questionnaire to survey 384 SMEs in the service sector and employed structural equation modeling (SEM) in data analysis. The findings suggested that SMEs' performance was influenced by risk-taking and proactiveness. This could be related to the fact that SMEs have a less formal structure, allowing owner-managers to take risks and make quick decisions. Furthermore, high performance was ensured by being very sensitive to market trends and changes in the business environment. Innovativeness was not a significant factor in influencing the performance of SMEs. Perhaps it was rather difficult for SME owner-managers to be innovative due to the lack of various resources. This study successfully re-confirmed the effect of IEO on business performance and highlighted the importance of risk-taking and proactiveness in improving the performance of SMEs.