R&D 협력 파트너 유형 및 의존도와 혁신의 성과: 한국 벤처기업들을 대상으로 한 실증연구

Type and Dependency of R&D Cooperation Partners and Innovation Performance: An Empirical Study with Korean Venture Firms

  • 투고 : 2016.06.14
  • 심사 : 2016.10.26
  • 발행 : 2016.12.31

초록

본 연구는 상대적으로 지식과 자원이 부족한 벤처기업이 외부의 다양한 유형의 파트너와 R&D 협력 관계를 효율적으로 활용, 관리하는 것을 통해 혁신 성과에 유의미한 영향을 줄 수 있음을 살펴보고 있다. 혁신은 벤처기업의 생존과도 직결되는 중요한 요인 중 하나로 여겨져 왔다. 일반기업과 달리, 벤처와 같이 자원의 제약이 있는 신생 기업의 경우 R&D 그 자체에 있어 필요한 자원이나 혹은 이러한 신기술 또는 아이디어를 독자적으로 상품화하고 시장에 내놓는데 필요한 자원이 부족한 경우가 많다. 따라서 이를 보완해 줄 외부 협력 파트너를 찾고 효율적으로 관리하는 것이 굉장히 중요한 이슈이다. 오늘날 대부분의 기업들은 하나의 협력 관계만을 보유하지 않고, 다수의 R&D 협력관계를 동시에 맺고 여러 파트너들과 교류하고 있다. 학자들은 이러한 여러 협력 관계를 포트폴리오적인 차원에서 효율적으로 관리하는 것의 중요성에 대해 언급하여 왔다. 협력관계를 맺고 유지하는데 있어서도 상당한 양의 시간과 자원 투자가 요구되며 관리차원의 주의(managerial attention)가 필요하기 때문에, 협력 관계를 전사(全社)차원에서 관리하여 효율성을 높이는 것이 중요하다. 자원의 부족이라는 벤처기업의 근본적인 특성을 생각해 볼 때, 벤처기업에게 있어서 더욱이 전사차원의 효율적 협력 관계 관리에 대한 고찰이 절실하게 필요하다고 할 수 있다. 본 연구를 통해 벤처기업의 협력 파트너 종류의 다양성과 협력 파트너에 대한 의존도의 다양성이 혁신성과에 미치는 영향을 살펴봄으로써, 보다 효율적인 협력 파트너 구성에 대하여 포트폴리오적인 시각에서 고찰하고자 한다. 2010년 제조업을 대상으로 한 한국기업혁신조사(KIS) 자료를 분석한 결과, 기존 기업 대비 벤처기업에게 있어서 R&D 협력이 혁신성과에 더욱 중요한 영향을 준다는 것을 확인하였다. 따라서 벤처기업은 이를 전사차원에서 효율적으로 관리하여야 하는데, 외부 파트너 유형의 다양성과 혁신 성과는 비선형적 관계(역 U자형)를 나타내므로, 다양성만을 지속적으로 추구할 것이 아니라 긍정적 효과를 상쇄하지 않는 범위 내에서 이를 유지하는 것이 중요하다는 것을 발견하였다. 더불어 각 파트너들에 대한 의존도는 다양하게 가져가는 것이 혁신성과에 중요하다는 결론을 얻을 수 있었다.

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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