R&D 협력 파트너 유형 및 의존도와 혁신의 성과: 한국 벤처기업들을 대상으로 한 실증연구Type and Dependency of R&D Cooperation Partners and Innovation Performance: An Empirical Study with Korean Venture Firms
- Other Titles
- Type and Dependency of R&D Cooperation Partners and Innovation Performance: An Empirical Study with Korean Venture Firms
- Authors
- 김나미; 김언수
- Issue Date
- 2016
- Publisher
- 한국중소기업학회
- Keywords
- Ventures’ Innovation; R& D Cooperation; Cooperative Partner Type Diversity; Cooperative Partner Dependency Diversity; 벤처기업 혁신; R& D 협력; 협력 파트너 유형의 다양성; 협력 의존도 다양성
- Citation
- 기업가정신과 벤처연구, v.19, no.4, pp.1 - 17
- Indexed
- KCI
- Journal Title
- 기업가정신과 벤처연구
- Volume
- 19
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 17
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/91502
- ISSN
- 1738-2599
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study is to suggest an efficient way for ventures to achieve innovation performance through R&D cooperative arrangements. Achieving innovation is one of the critical factors for the survival of ventures. Unlike established firms, ventures often do not have the specialized assets necessary to take technological developments to the product and market stages. Young and resource-constrained firms can achieve innovation by finding and accessing to the complementary resources from R&D cooperation. In the current business environment, many firms are likely to engage in multiple simultaneous R&D cooperations with different partners. Recent research stream addresses the importance of efficient cooperation management from the holistic portfolio perspective. Since maintaining the multiple cooperative relations require substantial amount of time and effort, managing cooperative relationships play a more important role to resource-constrained firms. In order to find an efficient composition of R&D cooperative partners, we mainly focus on the diversity of partner type and dependence level in partnership.
We analyze the data on Korean manufacturing ventures collected in the Korean Innovation Survey (KIS) which was conducted by the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI). The KIS questionnaire assesses the existence of cooperative relationships with different types of partners respectively. The types of cooperating partners are affiliated companies, suppliers, clients & customers, competitors or other firms in the same industry, consulting firms, universities, and research institutes.
We confirm that ventures obtain relatively higher benefits from R&D cooperation compared with established firms in terms of innovation performance. The results show that a moderate level of diversity in cooperative partner type composition increases innovation. Moreover, diversity of cooperation dependency among the partners enhances innovation performance. Likewise, concentrating on the quality aspects of cooperative composition, such as diversity of partners and degree of dependencies, this study offers some implications for ventures in managing partners from an integrative perspective.
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