• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.55-65
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to empirically analyze the factors that affect start-up activities at the national level. Unlike most existing research about entrepreneurship at the individual level, this empirical analysis makes use of the total early-stage entrepreneurial activity(TEA) index at national level. This was developed by the Global Entrepreneur Monitor (GEM) as the measure for the degree of entrepreneurship of the countries. Based on the previous studies, not only national income level and unemployment rate, but also other factors including the cultural characteristics of the countries were included in our regression model. Using GEM's panel data, we found that the effectiveness of the factors depends on the stage of economic development. In particular, we found 'U-shape' relationship between the level of per capita income and entrepreneurship activity by the panel regression analysis using quadratic function. This analysis result can explicitly confirm what the existing literature have explained descriptively. Furthermore, the governmental support programs are shown to have significantly positive effects on the entrepreneurship or start-up activities in the factor-driven and efficiency-driven economies. On the contrary, those programs were not very helpful in the innovative economies. Lastly, this research suggests that the 'education and training' and the 'entrepreneurial culture' be the supportive norm for new business regardless of the economic development level.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.111-122
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• 2017

This study analyzes the current state of entrepreneurship education and start-up foundations by country in order to find ways to improve the domestic entrepreneurial environment and to promote the recognition of desirable entrepreneurship practices. It also investigates the relationship between entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial will, and the level of opportunity-based entrepreneurships, by using data from the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Trend Report (GETR). First, the results show the urgent need for the expansion of entrepreneurship education in Korea. In the GETR category of 'experience of entrepreneurship education in elementary, middle and high schools', Korea was ranked very low (19th place), among the 20 countries. In the 'college' and 'lifelong entrepreneurship education' categories, it procured a mid-level ranking (15th). While entrepreneurship education for all ages is being promoted globally, entrepreneurship education for middle-aged individuals in Korea is relatively weak. This implies that the expansion of entrepreneurship education to lifelong education and education for employees and retirees is required. Second, the individual's entrepreneurial intention in Korea was 3.8 points, implying a mid-level ranking (15th), and it ranked the lowest in terms of opportunity-based entrepreneurship (20th). In comparison to China (4.55) and the United States (4.01), the entrepreneurial intention of Koreans was found to be low. The level of opportunity-driven entrepreneurship was also found to be very low, compared to China (4.35), Japan (4.04) and the United States (4.59). In general, the proportion of the level in opportunity-driven entrepreneurship, increases from the factor-driven and efficiency-driven, to the innovation-driven type. In Korea, the percentage of entrepreneurial ventures centered around involuntary entrepreneurship and small businesses is high. It is also interpreted that opportunity-based entrepreneurships are low in number because of this high proportion of involuntary start-up and small businesses. Last, the entrepreneurial intention in all types (factor-driven, efficiency-driven, and innovation-driven) was exceptionally high. It has been confirmed that exposure to all entrepreneurship education (elementary, junior high, university, and lifelong education) in innovation-driven countries, greatly increases entrepreneurial intention. In the case of Korea, which is an innovation-driven country, qualitative improvement based on quantitative expansion of entrepreneurship education is expected to be a major driving force for individuals' entrepreneurial intention to obtain a mid-level ranking (15th).

• Venture DIGEST
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• s.35
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• pp.6-7
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• 2003

지식집약적 산업으로 급속히 재편되고 있는 세계경제 속에서 한국의 국가 경쟁력을 향상하기 위해서는 R&D 및 특허 취득 활동 등 지식창출 능력의 제고와 창출된 지식의 효율적 상업화를 위한 선행 여건이 다각도로 활성화되어야 한다.

• Digital Contents
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• no.5 s.144
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• pp.12-13
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• 2005

국가경제가 새롭게 도약하기 위해서는 고부가가치 기술을 지닌 혁신형 중소기업을 육성하는 것이 최우선 과제임은 이미 잘 알려져있다. 그동안 중소기업이 기술진보 등 경제환경 변화에 효율적으로 대응하지 못한 구조적인 문제점이 가장 큰 중소기업 경영애로의 요인으로 작용했다. 이에 지난해 12월 취임한 양해진 중소기업정보화경영원장은 그동안 중소기업 보호정책을 탈피, 중소기업이 기술혁신 능력을 갖춰 혁신 주도형 중소기업으로 육성하겠다는 포부를 밝혔다.

• 전기의세계
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.19-23
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• 1994

GR을 목전에 둔 지금, 한가이 그 추이를 지켜 보고만 있을 것이 아니라 추진해야할 과제를 주의깊게 선정하여 미리부터 실천해 나가지 않으면 안될 때이다. 그중 간과되기 쉬운 몇가지 중요한 점들을 지적하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, GR의 본질이 에너지 협상(Energy Round)인 것에 관한 일반국민과 관계전문가의 인식제고가 시급하다. 둘째, 국내산업의 에너지 소비구조를 엄밀히 분석하여 예방적 차원에서 효율개선 및 환경보호 조치를 해나가야 한다. 평균소비형, 저소비형과 같이 나눌때 각 산업군별로 적절한 정책적 대안과제를 만들어 시행에 옮겨가야 한다. 셋째, 국내 에너지 넷트웍을 분석하여 환경규제의 영향을 종합분석하여야 한다. UR은 우리나라 농업부문에 특히 심각한 영향을 미쳤지만 GR은 대상범위가 훨씬 광범위하다. 마지막으로, 전력부문에 미칠 GR의 영향은 반드시 종합에너지 차원, 그리고 국민경제 전체를 포괄한 차원에서 평가되어야 한다. 환경설비로 인한 전력가격의 상승은 각종 기업비용 상승으로 연결되고 물가수준 및 GNP에 영향을 미칠 뿐만 아니라 더 나아가 수출주도형인 우리의 산업경제구조가 가진 국제경쟁력에도 심각한 영향을 미친다.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.293-321
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• 2012

This study aims to examine how institutions has been formed to deepen interdependence and to keep check in trade on the border regions of East Sea Rim between the macro structure and micro behaviors. The transitional nations such as China, Russia, and North Korea adjacent to the East Sea Rim exhibits unique characteristics in terms of transaction governance structure. While the regional economy in northeast China is still overwhelmed by the stated-owned enterprises(SOEs), it strongly encourages the private economic trade to form institutional economy through the border trade port and peddler trade market. Thus trade is shaped by the mixed governance. In far east Russia, whereas the SOEs are in charge of exporting oil, gas etc., private firms and small scale traders are importing household items, so that it can also be called as the mixed governance, while informal social networks simultaneously work. In North Korea, for the trade, since the firms are mainly required to have the permits from the different levels of government, it is regarded as the hierarchical governance. The institutional economics seems to well explain the changing agencies and their influence on the trade among the regions in the East Sea Rim.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.405-418
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• 2020

The purpose of this case study was to analyze the promotion background, development process, business content and organizations of rural social enterprises in Japan and Korea, to examine the similarities and differences of the two countries in social purpose, independence of management, creation of regional economic cycle and administrative role, and to present policy tasks for development of social economy and social enterprise in rural area. the Policy tasks are as follows; construction of community-based social economy, social financial support strengthening, the empowerment of rural social enterprises and the efficient management of internet shopping mall for increase in sales.

• Proceedings of the CALSEC Conference
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.335-359
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• 2000

◆ 기술 중심의 지식집약형 중소ㆍ벤처기업이 경제발전을 주도 ◆ 기업지원 기능의 부처, 기관별 분산 및 서비스 일관성 부족 →기업활동에 필요한 정보획득 및 애로사항 해소의 어려움 ◆ 창업, 자금 등 기업활동에 필요한 정보의 적시공급 및 기업애로사항을 신속히 해결 할 수 있는 종합기업서비스정보망 구축ㆍ운영 필요 : '97. 3월 대통령 주재 경제장관회의 보고 ◆ 종합기업서비스센터(산자부 중소기업정책반) 설치ㆍ운영 Inno-NET 구축사업 착수('97년 8월 1일 시범서비스 개시) - 1차 1998. 7. 1 - 1999. 6. 30, - 2차 1999. 7. 1 - 2000. 6. 30 ◆ 기업의 애로를 효율적으로 해소할 수 있도록 정부 및 관련 공공기관들을 상호 연계한 현장밀착형 양방향서비스정보망 구축(기업정보제공＋종합안내정보＋민원 및 애로상담 기능＋지역기술정보) ◆ 체계화된 범국가적ㆍ지역별 종합기업지원 정보 서비스 체제 구축 ◆ 지방업체의 기술경쟁력 제고를 위한 지역별 산업기술정보 DB 및 기업지원 전문정보 DB 구축 ◆ EIP(Enterprise Information Portal) 정보제공 및 애로해소를 위한 종합적이고 전문적인 기업지원 포탈시스템 구축(중소벤처기업지원 나침반-HUB 기능)(중략)

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.559-573
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• 2019

The aim of this study is to investigate how social welfare expenditure affects to economic growth in Northern European countries, and such implication might be compared with Korean episode. ARDL cointegration model is employed for emplrical analysis. The model is usefully utilized to analyze short-run and long-run relationships of the variables in general. The result suggests that private welfare expenditure is effective in Korea and Finland even though the magnitude of effectiveness is quite a small scale. On the other hand, public welfare expenditure is effective in Denmark and Norway. However, none of social welfare expenditures affects in economic growth in Sweden. And, therefore, it could be concluded that although social welfare expenditures contribute to improve income inequality, these hardly support income-led growth strategy.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.1-14
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• 2021

Innovation and Scale-up of Start-up companies are becoming important national tasks. In the past, it was spread the start-up policy paradigm such as 'Start-up America', 'Start-up Chile', 'Start-up Britain' to overcome the recession globally. However as the economic recovery has become more visible recently in advanced economies, it is shifting from a start-up support policy to a scale-up oriented policy paradigm such as 'Scale-up America', Scale-up UK', 'Scale-up Denmark'. It is necessary to enter the scale-up phase beyond the start-up phase to increase the number of high-quality jobs and to continue economic growth. Therefore, it is necessary to grow the start-up into a strong medium-sized company and to lay the foundation for survival. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to consider the antecedent factors that influence the scale-up aspiration for the start-up firm to grow into a scale-up company, and empirically identifies the differences between the stages of economic development and entrepreneurs in the country. In order to accomplish the purpose, this study predicted scale-up by aspiration which is a predictor of scale-up behavior because it is difficult to achieve visible growth in a short period of time due to the characteristics of start-up companies. In order to empirically explore these relationships, the data were collected from nascent entrepreneurs who have less than 3.5 years of the Adult Population Survey(APS) among the subjects surveyed by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor(GEM) and the national economic development stage are divided into Innovation-driven, Efficiency-driven, Factor-driven type economies. For the test hypotheses, this study adopted the multi-level model analysis for comparison between national economic development stages and using the R 3.5.0 program. The results of this study are as follows. There is difference between the national economic development and the entrepreneur in the relationship between innovation orientation of entrepreneurs and scale-up aspirations. As the economy of the country develops, the innovation activity of the entrepreneur becomes more active. Since start-ups are heavily influenced by entrepreneurs, there is a difference in the degree of aspiration depending on how innovative an entrepreneur is in the same environment. In terms of the relationship between innovation orientation and scale-up aspiration, the fear of failure was found to differ between national economic development and entrepreneurs. The fear of failure differ from country to country, and this is one of the important factors affecting entrepreneurial activities. It is expected that the factors influencing the growth of the start-up companies which are identified through the results of these studies, will be used to create a suitable scale-up ecosystem according to the national economic development stage.