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The Effect of Innovation Intermediaries on Firm's Absorptive Capacity : Focusing on Moderating Effect of Innovation Environmental Factors

혁신중개인이 기업의 흡수역량에 미치는 영향 : 혁신환경요인의 조절효과를 중심으로

  • Received : 2017.11.02
  • Accepted : 2017.11.14
  • Published : 2018.03.31
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Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing the effect of the relationship between innovation intermediaries and firms on firms' absorptive capacity from the perspectives of social capital. And it also analyzes how firms' innovation environment influences on their absorptive capacity in this process. For this purpose, we carry out an empirical analysis on 200 firms in the Daedeok Innopolis, which is the representative innovation cluster in Korea. According to this study, firm's absorptive capacity is positively affected by the reliability and frequency of firms' communication with innovation intermediaries. However, the geographic proximity does not have significant influence. Also, the innovation environmental factors play a positive moderating role in the absorptive capacity of firms, and the social factors have a distinct significant influence on it directly. Based on these findings, this paper would make a contribution to recognize the importance of innovation intermediaries in innovation process and their role as preceding factors to firms' absorptive capacity, as well as innovative environment in the innovation process.

본 연구는 사회적 자본의 관점에서 혁신중개인과 기업과의 관계가 흡수역량에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 분석한다. 그리고 기업의 혁신환경요인은 이 과정에서 직 간접적으로 흡수역량에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지에 대해 연구한다. 이를 위해 국내 대표적인 혁신클러스터인 대덕연구개발특구 내 입주하고 있는 200여개 기업을 대상으로 실증분석을 수행함으로써 제시한 연구질문을 검증하고자 한다. 주요 연구결과는 기업이 활용하고 있는 혁신중개인의 관계와 혁신환경요인이 흡수역량과의 관계에서 전반적으로 유의한 정(+)의 효과가 있음을 보여준다. 세부적으로 혁신중개인의 관계 중에서 신뢰도 및 소통빈도는 흡수역량에 유의한 영향을 미치며, 반면에 지리적 근접성에 대해서는 유의하지 않은 것으로 분석되었다. 또한, 혁신중개인이 기업의 흡수역량에 미치는 영향에서 기업이 직면하고 있는 혁신환경요인은 정(+)의 조절역할을 하며, 하위차원에서는 사회적 요인이 뚜렷하고 긍정적인 영향을 미친다는 사실을 조명하고 있다. 본 연구는 기업의 기술혁신과정에서 혁신중개인의 역할과 흡수역량의 선행요인으로서의 혁신중개인의 중요성과 더불어 혁신환경요인의 중요성 대한 이해에 기여한다.

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