• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.129-145
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• 2016

This is a case study to analyze the role of technology licensing or transfer office (TLO) as factors of success for the spin-off from government research lab. The case company is a research lab startup, which is a joint venture through technology investment by a government research lab or university in the designated R&D parks and cash investment by the partner company. The case company listed on the stock market in 2015 reaching a market capitalization of US$ 1.2 billion. We confirm the success factors of startups pointed out in many studies: original technology, good understanding of core technology and production technology, technological competitiveness in the market. However, there is an important factor not well discussed in the previous studies, the role of TLO. TLO guided the company ownership, management, technology, and solved problems that pause business itself. The case became the sample of research lab startup and technology investment in Korea.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.47-50
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• 2008

The sub-zero cold is a major environmental consideration for the operational readiness of FCEVs because fuel cells produce water and utilize wet air with varying water content to generate electricity. Typical fuel cells thus have a fatal flaw in freezing conditions at startup. This drawback becomes more serious with the outsourced fuel cell that is entirely water-based for its internal humidification. In this background, the HMC's self-designed fuel cell was developed as an alternative and was employed in the Tucson-based FCEV in 2006 demonstrating its good cold-startup characteristics. The cold-startup capacity of the vehicle was validated through tests in the cold chamber and on the road, resulting in 50% stack power achieved in 250 seconds at $-15^{\circ}C$.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제12권9호
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• pp.19-29
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• 2021

Purpose: To thrive a competitive advantage in the highly competitive global market, a company must establish a strong startup culture, which creates a workplace environment that values innovation and creativity in solving business-related problems. This study investigates the importance of enhancing startup culture in a competitive environment to improve organizational performance, production and hence produce higher returns. Research design, data and methodology: We conducted the qualitative content analysis and its steps seek to ensure that the researcher adheres to a systematic analysis of the data. The method is used for subjective examination of content in any text data and the five steps minimize cases of errors or repetition in used content. Results: Our investigation based on previous literature resources indicates that leading strategies and creating a pleasant working environment are vital behaviors that companies should consider adopting and implementing to achieve a beneficial startup culture full of productivity and massive returns. Conclusion: This research aimed to discuss the necessity of startup culture's enhancement for for-profit companies and found that the adoption of a startup culture in a company is critical to its success. It is vital to building a solid startup culture to grow and gain a competitive advantage in the highly competitive business world.

• 농촌계획
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.147-157
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• 2016

On the purpose to analyze the survival rate of startup companies since their establishment, the companies' survival rate was investigated by surviving period. The average and coefficient of variation(C.V.) of the startup companies' survival rate were examined with the comparison of urban and rural areas, and primary, secondary, and tertiary industries. In this study, the variation of total numbers of new-established companies, from 1998 to 2012, were analyzed with micro-data of the Statistics Korea, 'The Census on Establishments'. The results show that the survival rate of primary industry companies largely fluctuate and don't be stabled during the whole surviving periods, whereas secondary and tertiary industry companies show stabilized survival rate after fifth year from their establishment. Especially, the startup companies of primary industry located at urban areas show the largest fluctuation and the most vulnerable stability of survival rate. It is concluded that the surviving period of primary industry companies don't guarantee their survival, while survival rate of secondary and tertiary industry company became stable after five years from their establishment.

• Journal of Platform Technology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.19-34
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• 2023

글로벌시대의 환경속에서 '스타트업'의 트렌드와 인사이트를 파악하기 위해 빅데이터 분석 플랫폼인 Google Trends를 활용하여 최근 글로벌 스타트업 생태계를 심층 트렌드 분석을 실시하였다. 분석의 타당성을 위해 BIGKinds를 통해 핵심 키워드 '스타트업'과 '글로벌'의 상관관계를 검증하였다. 또한 '스타트업' 키워드나 용어의 검색 빈도를 파악하기 위해 Google Trends를 이용하여 추출한 데이터를 기반으로 네트워크 분석을 수행하였다. 연구결과, 키워드 사이에 강한 양적 선형관계를 보여주어 통계적으로 유의미한 상관관계를 나타냈다(상관계수: +0.8906). Google Trends를 사용한 글로벌 스타트업 트렌드를 탐색한 결과 '그림4'와 같이 각 국가들의 시기별 관심도가 증가하거나 감소하는 매우 비슷한 선형적 형태를 나타났다. 특히 스타트업 관심도가 2020년 중반부터 코로나-19 팬데믹으로 인해 35~76 범위내에서 낮게 나타났지만, 2022년 3월 이후 스타트업 관심도가 눈에 띄게 상승하는 트렌드를 보였다. 또한, 한국을 제외한 각 국가별 Startups 관심도는 아주 비슷한 추세이고, 관련 주제는 startup company, technology, investment, funding, 키워드 검색어는 best startup, tech, business, invest, health, fintech 등이 공통적으로 나타나 매우 높은 상관관계가 있음을 확인하였다.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.287-296
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• 2008

The objective of the present paper is to analyze the problems found in the operation of startup companies and to seek after their solutions. It is thus aimed at offering reasonable grounds for the government to work out long- and short-term strategies in an attempt to help and vitalize startup companies. In this context, following analysis was conducted to meet the objective of this study: First, it was analyzed here to determine if there was any difference in the application of management characters that were deemed to be important factors exercising drastic influence on competitiveness of startup companies directly as well as indirectly; and Second, it was empirically proved how management characters of startup companies affected their competitiveness. From the analysis, it was discovered as follows: First, characters of founders such as age, education and experience in management were found to differ depending on the extent that factors of managerial characters in startup companies were practically applied; and Second, the four factors of managerial characters that were classified by factor analysis turned out to have influence on variables of financial and non-financial competitiveness that were connected with competitiveness of a company.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.1-21
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• 2021

Recently, the importance of entrepreneurship based on innovative ideas is being emphasized. Most startup companies misunderstand that a good solution is a good idea, so they try to start a business by choosing an idea that prioritizes solutions, products, and technology rather than problem-first. However, to be a successful startup, it is essential to focus on the quality of the problems your customers are trying to solve. The online community is a place where many people exchange their thoughts and communicate with each other through a network, and communities about consumption, a concern of modern people, are developing. Against this background, this study proposed an integrated methodology that combines big data and netnography analysis so that entrepreneurs can use online community data to derive customer-centered startup ideas. The integrated methodology was verified based on the actual start-up case, who derived a startup idea based on the data of domestic cloth diapers online cafe. The case company found customer problems based on online community data and used it to develop startup items and new products. The integrated methodology for deriving entrepreneurial ideas in this study is expected to be an important guideline that explains in detail the consumer-centered idea derivation process.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.224-231
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• 2009

The improvement of cold start capability is one of the most challenging tasks to be solved for commercialization of fuel cell vehicle. In this study, cold start test and ice blocking test(IBT) of fuel cell stack were carried out under various operating conditions. This fuel cell stack can be thawed from -20$^{\circ}$C within 25s and the voltage change was found to be comprised of 4 steps; the first step is the voltage decrease by overpotential, the second step is the voltage increase by the cell temperature increase, the third step is the voltage decrease by ice blocking, and the last step is the voltage increase by thawing. Bootstrap startup was failed after shutdown at temperature under 40$^{\circ}$C because of much condensed water in the fuel cell. Quantitative estimation of cold start capability have been demonstrated by ice blocking test(IBT). In the results, it was found that cold start capability was improved double every 10$^{\circ}$C from 30$^{\circ}$C to 65$^{\circ}$C and enhanced by 30% at the condition of SR 3/4 compared to SR 1.5/2.0 and enhanced by 20% with dry purge condition compared to with RH 50% purge condition.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.63-73
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• 2016

스타트업은 이제 전세계적으로 산업발전에서 가장 떠오르는 이슈로 자리 잡고 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 가장 큰 문제는 대부분의 스타트업은 죽음의 계곡을 극복하지 못하고 실패의 길로 들어선다는 것이다. 이러한 상황에서 많은 스타트업은 벤처캐피탈에게서 이를 극복하기 위한 투자를 받기 원하고 있다. 하지만 스타트업의 비즈니스는 그 자체로 보안이 중요한 영업비밀이기에 벤처캐피탈을 접근하는데 있어 전략적 접근이 필요하다. 본 연구는 이를 위해 스타트업의 특성과 벤처캐피탈의 기존 투자 포트폴리오와의 연관성을 분석함으로서 투자유치를 위한 전략적 의사결정 요인을 확인하고자 한다. 분석을 위해 기존 유명한 해외 벤처캐피탈인 Sequoia capital, Lightspeed venture, Firstround, Khosla venture와 그들이 엔젤투자로 불리우는 seed 투자를 한 스타트업인 Dropbox, Airbnb, Snapchat, Uber, Instacart의 사례를 살펴보고 연관성에 대한 탐색적 분석을 실행하였다. 그 결과 각각의 벤처캐피탈은 각자 그들만의 투자 카테고리 특성을 보여줬으며 seed 투자 된 스타트업 또한 그들의 주요 카테고리에 포함되었다. 이뿐만 아니라 투자 시점 기준 1년간 투자된 총 244개의 기업과의 연관 관계를 살펴본 결과 36.4%의 기업이 산업내 수요와 공급관계를 형성하여 해당 산업의 양적, 질적 성장을 촉진할 수 있는 상호 수직적 통합관계를 보였으며 단지 0.5%만이 수평적 통합관계를 보여주어 벤처캐피탈이 스타트업에 투자하는데 있어서 기존 사업과의 상호 연관성에 따른 포트폴리오를 구성함을 보여주었다. 이는 스타트업에게는 seed 투자를 위한 벤처캐피탈 유치에 있어 기존 투자된 포트폴리오와의 연관성 확인이 주요한 전략적 요인임을 확인시켜 줬으며, 벤처캐피탈에게 있어서는 위험성 감소를 위한 상호 보완할 수 있는 스타트업 포트폴리오 구성의 중요성을 보여주었다. 이는 또한 갈수록 늘어나는 기업간 분쟁에 있어 상호 방어적 지식재산(IP) 포트폴리오 구성이 가능하게 되어 향후 사업성장을 위한 전략적 대응에 있어 그 중요성이 더욱더 클 것으로 보인다.

• 한국안광학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2008

목적: 안경광학과 재학생의 안경원 창업의식에 관한 기초 자료를 얻어 창업교육에 반영하고자 하였다. 방법: 경기지역 3개 대학의 안경광학과 재학생 287명을 대상으로 설문을 실시하여 SPSS 통계 분석을 하였다. 결과: 안경광학과 학생들의 안경원 창업예정도는 80.1%로 매우 높았다. 창업 시기는 안경원에 6년 이상 근무한 후가 적합하다는 의견이 37.0%로 가장 높았으며 연령(p<.001)과 안경사친인척 유무(p<.05)에 따른 유의한 차이가 나타났다. 창업형태는 단독창업의 형태가 37.0%로 높았으며 학년에 따른 유의한 차이가 나타났다(p<.01). 창업규모는 중형규모(30평형)가 43.5%로 가장 높았고 창업지역은 수도권, 경기지역이 54.4%, 창업장소는 역세권이 40.8%로 높게 나타났다. 안경원 비창업 사유로는 안과, 안경업체의 취업 때문이 35.7%로 높게 나타났고 비창업자의 진로는 안경원 근무가 35.7%로 나타났다. 결론: 안경광학과 학생들의 창업예정도는 매우 높았으며 이들의 창업 준비를 위한 창업교육이 요구된다.