한국 대학벤처캐피탈의 투자성과에 대한 연구

The Performance of University Venture Capitals in Korea

  • 투고 : 2020.01.10
  • 심사 : 2020.02.24
  • 발행 : 2020.02.29

초록

대학이 보유한 지적재산과 인적자원을 활용하여 기술이전을 촉진하고 창업을 지원하는 역할에 대한 관심은 국내뿐만 아니라 세계적으로 확대되고 있는 추세이다. 한국의 대학에서도 다양한 조직을 통하여 기술이전과 창업을 장려하고 있으며 대학기술지주회사는 그 중심적인 역할을 수행하고 있다. 하지만 현재까지 대학기술지주회사의 사업성과는 기술사업화 경험 및 전담 인력의 부족 그리고 법적·제도적 장애요인으로 인해 저조한 실정이다. 최근에는 기존의 자회사 설립을 통한 사업화 시도와 더불어 대학기술지주회사가 직접적으로 액셀러레이터 또는 벤처케피탈의 역할을 맡아 스타트업을 발굴하고 성장을 지원하여 기업가적 대학으로의 변신을 주도하고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 대학벤처캐피탈과 그 투자대상인 스타트업의 특성을 분석하였다. 또한 대학벤처캐피탈의 투자성과를 측정하고 그 결정 요인을 실증분석하였다. 대학벤처캐피탈은 주로 설립된 지 3년 이내의 신생 스타트업에 초기 투자자금을 지원하여 민간 벤처캐피탈의 후속투자를 유인하는 역할을 하고 있었다. 이러한 후속투자 유치를 대학벤처캐피탈의 주요 성과지표로 활용하여 대학벤처캐피탈이 다른 민간 투자자 및 정부의 지원 프로그램과 연계하여 투자할 경우 가장 투자성과가 높다는 것을 발견하였다. 이러한 결과는 대학과 산업계 그리고 정부의 협력이 스타트업의 성공가능성을 높이는 핵심적인 요소라는 것을 보여준다. 본 논문에서는 기존 연구와는 차별화하여 대학기술지주회사의 액셀러레이터 또는 벤처캐피탈의 역할을 최초로 분석하였다는 데 그 의의가 있다.

In recent years, universities, with their intellectual properties and human resources, become main drivers for technology transfer. Universities in Korea have various organizations to support the technology transfer and commercialization. Among them, a technology holding company plays the critical role to successfully implement the task. Nonetheless, the performance of the technology holding company is well below the expectation of industry, government and universities themselves. The lack of expertises and experience together with the ill-suited government policies could be attributable to the observed under performance. More recently, however, the technology holding company acts as an accelerator or venture capital to search and fund promising start-ups. The university venture capital thus transforms a traditional university into an entrepreneurial university. Focusing on the role of the technology holding company as an accelerator or venture capital, the paper analyzes the characteristics of the university venture capital and the invested start-ups. The performance of the university venture capital is measured and the determinants of the performance are empirically tested. The results show that the co-investment of outside investors and the support of government program, known as Tech Incubator Program for Startup Korea, yields the highest performance. The result indicates that the coordination of the university venture capital, industry and government is the key to the success of early start-ups. The paper is the first to analyze the performance of the university venture capitals in Korea and thus contributes to the literature.

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