• 기술혁신연구
• /
• 제12권2호
• /
• pp.185-208
• /
• 2004

Production of goods and services always necessarily depends on the use of knowledge. The knowledge intensity of production , however, has increased manifold in the last two decades or so. This is clearly indicated by the rise in the share of knowledge intensive products, which are traded. The production and export of these advanced products are not confined to developed countries alone, but also among developing countries. But in the latter there is considerable concentration of it in a handful of countries primarily in the Asian region. Knowledge underlying production, whether industrial or non-industrial, embodies two types of knowledge: formal and non-formal. In this paper we are entirely concerned with the financing of the creation of formalized knowledge in the context of two similar Asian developing countries, namely Singapore and Malaysia. Three broad types of financial instruments are considered: research grants, tax incentives and venture capital. Both the countries are shown to be having very similar financial instruments for promoting innovation. The timing of these instruments is quite similar too. But one country has performed much better than the other. The main argument of the paper is that while financial instruments are a necessary input for innovation, the sufficient condition lies in the supply of a sufficient quantity of scientists and engineers.

• STI Policy Review
• /
• 제4권2호
• /
• pp.55-73
• /
• 2013

Since the 1990s, the Japanese government has made considerable attempts at stimulating innovation with an aim to pull the country out of a possibly permanent economic decline. Several laws and policy initiatives were introduced to encourage better interaction between universities (and research institutions) and industry. The results of these efforts have been mixed. While the number of university-industry joint and commissioned research has increased, revenues from the licensing of university-owned patents have fluctuated year by year. Although the number of startups and spin-offs from universities rose, their long-term survival and contribution to the economy remain uncertain. The Japanese experience features both strengths and weaknesses. Strengths include the long-term commitment of policy makers, the ability to set specific targets, and the active engagement of several key economic ministries. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of these policy initiatives was hampered by limitations within the policies concerning the roles of universities and their mode of interaction with industry based on intellectual property rights, the inadequacy of demand-side innovation policies, the fragmentation of bureaucracy, and a lack of a credible evaluation system.

• 기술혁신학회지
• /
• 제12권2호
• /
• pp.360-387
• /
• 2009

본 연구는 한국거래소의 코스닥시장에 상장된 혁신형 중소기업을 대상으로 내부자금조달과 R&D 투자간의 관계를 실증분석 하였으며, 주요한 분석결과는 다음과 같다. 코스닥시장의 벤처기업은 일반기업보다 R&D투자 비율이 훨씬 높은데도 불구하고, 일반기업과 달리 내부자금조달이 R&D 투자에 영향을 미치지 않는다. 이러한 현상은 코스닥기업이 벤처기업으로 선정되면, 내부자금조달에 의존하는 대신에 정책적 금융지원을 통해 R&D투자에 열중할 수 있기 때문이다. 내부자금조달은 비혁신형 코스닥기업보다 혁신형 코스닥기업의 R&D 투자에 더 큰 영향을 미친다. 따라서 혁신형 코스닥기업은 외부자금조달이 제약되는 상황에서도 내부자금조달에 의존하여 R&D 투자를 적극 수행한다고 할 수 있다. 내부 자금조달은 R&D 투자 항목 중에서 비용처리 R&D 투자보다 자산처리 R&D 투자에 더 큰 영향을 미친다. 이는 혁신형 코스닥기업이 무형자산으로 처리되는 사나처리 R&D 투자를 비용으로 처리되는 비용처리 R&D 투자 보다 더 중요시한다는 증거가 된다. 그리고 내부자금조달은 혁신형 코스닥 기업중에서 고-신용평점기업보다 저-신용평점기업의 R&D 투자에 더 큰 영향을 미친다. 이는 혁신형 코스닥기업이 비대칭정보 외에 저-신용평점으로 인한 재무적 제약이 클수록 R&D 투자자금을 내부자금조달에 의존할 가능성이 더 크다는 증거가 된다.

• Asia Marketing Journal
• /
• 제25권1호
• /
• pp.37-44
• /
• 2023

Firm innovativeness and financing capacity are critical signals to stakeholders as they are key drivers of firm performance and competitiveness and indicate the firm's ability to fund its operations and growth initiatives. Based on signaling theory, this study investigates the signaling effect of a firm's innovativeness and creditworthiness and examines its signaling effectiveness. Using Korean innovation data and Korea Investors Service financial data for nine years, the findings indicate that a firm's technological innovation has a negative impact on its credit ratings, while non-technological innovation has a positive impact. Furthermore, a firm's credit ratings positively impact its performance. The current study contributes to the literature on signaling theory by exploring the signaling effect of a firm's innovativeness and creditworthiness. The findings provide insights for managers on how to send and monitor signals to stakeholders.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
• /
• 제22권3호
• /
• pp.335-343
• /
• 2022

The article analyzes the features of innovation and investment activities of enterprises in the context of digitalization to increase their competitiveness in the international market. Ukraine's position on the Global Innovation Index is assessed. The interrelation of management functions in the context of innovation and investment activities of enterprises is substantiated. The structure of sources of financing of innovative activity of industrial enterprises is analyzed. Trends in changes in the volume of foreign direct investment and capital investment in Ukraine are assessed. It is determined that the level of innovative development of enterprises is determined by the level of their investment support, which is determined by the level of their investment attractiveness. The components of the strategy of investment attractiveness of enterprises are outlined. Determining factors in the implementation of innovation and investment policy of enterprises are identified and the main stages that should include the processes of managing innovation and investment activities of enterprises in the context of digitalization.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
• /
• 제7권12호
• /
• pp.465-474
• /
• 2020

This study investigates how financial resources and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) may influence the performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Twenty-seven interviews were conducted and evaluated using the method of GABEK® (A GAnzheitliche BEwältigung von Komplexität - holistic processing of complexity). The research demonstrated that access to financial resources has significantly mediated EO's effect on the SMEs' performance. The study found that financial autonomy, enhanced through both personal financing and availability of external finance sources, plays a central role in supporting the EO dimension of autonomy and enhancing the SMEs' performance. In particular, the other EO dimension of risk-taking is stymied by lack of funds with which to take commercial and market opportunities. However, when an innovation strategy is pursued and adopted, access to finance can be facilitated, either through financial institutions or through other governmental funding programs attracting high potential innovators. Furthermore, financial barriers, difficulties accessing bank financing, and legal issues have a detrimental impact on SMEs' growth. The study has implications for policy-makers in the UAE, specifically in terms of sending a signal for lending institutions to consider strategies that provide access to affordable financial services to satisfy SMEs' needs.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
• /
• 제9권3호
• /
• pp.105-112
• /
• 2022

The current study is at the forefront of examining the theory of principal-agent framework and financing constraints to explain the level of corporate innovation. To boost the firm's level of innovation, this study uses corporate governance and corporate performance as driving factors. The study's secondary goal is to give information on the parallel relationship between corporate governance and the level of corporate innovation. This study used a two-step least square (TSLS) regression analysis to examine such a simultaneous association using secondary data from Indonesian listed businesses from 2000 to 2021, which totaled around 1,910 observations. This study uses the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) tool to test cumulative variances of potential corporate governance indicators such as the total commissioner of the firm (TCOM), total independent commissioner of the firm (INDPCOM), the proportion of institutional ownership (INSOWN), total female commissioner (FEMCOM), CEO duality (CEODUAL), and type of the firm (SOE). As a result, PCA reveals that four of these variables, omitting CEODUAL and SOE, were a corporate governance construct. Furthermore, the study discovered that the amount of firm innovation and corporate governance are related.

• 벤처창업연구
• /
• 제14권3호
• /
• pp.1-11
• /
• 2019

이 연구는 창업성과를 높이는 요인에 대한 새로운 시사점을 제시한다. 창업가의 지식확산이론(Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship)과 자원기반이론(Resource Based Vies)을 기반으로, 특허기반 창업이 주요 창업성과에 미치는 영향을 분석했다. 창업성과는 자금조달, 혁신성, 매출, 제품판매증가율, 단기고용 등을 포함했다. 특허기반 창업의 효과를 다각적으로 검토하기 위해 특허기반 창업 변수는 특허기반 창업여부와 특허기반 창업강도(intensity)로 세분화하여 분석했다. 지식재산기반 창업촉진사업 프로그램에 참가한 353개 창업기업 데이터를 토대로 분석한 결과, 특허기반 창업은 자금조달, 혁신성, 단기 제품판매증가율, 단기고용 등 성과 면에서 긍정적 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 반면 단기 매출성과에는 효과가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 이 같은 통계적 양상은 특허기반 창업여부와 특허기반 창업강도 모두 동일하게 나타났다. 이는 특허기반 창업이 창업기업의 자금조달 역량과, 미래 경쟁력, 성장성을 높이는 데 유효한 방법임을 시사한다. 특허 등 지식재산을 기반으로 창업을 하는 방식은 기업과 산업의 질적 고도화를 실현하는 데 중추적 역할을 한다는 기존 연구의 흐름을 이어가며, 창업가들의 설문조사에 기반한 계량분석을 통해 그 효과성을 실증적으로 증명한다는 점에서 의의를 지닌다.

• 국제학술발표논문집
• /
• The 3th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
• /
• pp.962-969
• /
• 2009

The market of building construction has been competitive in Hong Kong, perhaps as anywhere else in the world. The barrier to entry is low because there are relatively low requirements on the three factors of production - technology, manpower and finance. The prevailing building technology is traditional and labour-intensive. There is also not much need of capital because clients' periodic payments have been the main source of project finance. Further, capitalizing on trade sub-contracting, contractors have been able to keep their direct labour-force small and to transfer much of their business risk to the sub-contractors. Based on interviews to solicit the perception of a sample of building contractors on the particular issues of construction finance, we present the findings in this paper and discuss the various implications. We believe that the current practice of construction financing is both the cause and effect of the competition within, and the competitiveness of, the building construction sector in Hong Kong. We conclude that the building construction sector is "locked or stuck" in this "equilibrium" of traditional technology, reliance on clients' finance and exploitation of sub-contracting. In this "equilibrium" state, there is hardly any motivation for contractors to engage themselves in product or process innovation. Consequently, any talk of industry reform or innovation could only remain just that. We believe that this problem is not unique in Hong Kong. The building construction sector in many other developed and developing economies is posed with similar if not the same problems and constraints. We conclude that there has to be some "external forces" to bring this "equilibrium" state to a higher level "equilibrium" one where higher value-added building construction services are supplied and demanded. This is a state where building contractors possessing innovative technology, better financial and manpower resources could thrive to build better buildings with innovative building methods and processes.

• 기업가정신과 벤처연구
• /
• 제19권2호
• /
• pp.1-15
• /
• 2016

일반적으로 기업가들이 창업을 할 때 자금을 필요로 한다. 이들 자금의 주요원천은 개인저축, 가족이나 친구들의 자금 또는 은행이나 다른 금융기관들의 대출이다. 이민자와 모국인 기업가들의 자금원천에는 차이가 있는데, 그 차이는 그들이 처해있는 사회적 맥락에 기인한다. 이 연구의 주제는 기업가의 거주형태-이민자인지 모국인인지-가 어떻게 자금의 원천에 영향을 미치는지, 그리고 이러한 차이가 어떻게 한국가의 부에 의해 조절효과를 가지는지 하는 것이다. 데이터는 글로벌 기업가정신 모니터에서 29개국 14,369명의 이민자 및 모국인 창업 기업주나 관리자를 대상으로 서베이한 것을 사용했으며, 위계혼합모델을 사용하여 분석하였다. 분석결과 이민자나 모국인 기업가 모두 개인저축과 가족의 자금을 가장 주요한 자금원천으로 사용했다. 모국인 기업가들은 이민자 기업가들보다 은행이나 금융기관들을 주요 자금원천으로 사용한데 반해, 이민자 기업가들은 친구나 기타 원천을 자금원천으로 사용했다. 하지만 이러한 거주형태가 자금의 원천에 미치는 영향은 국가의 상황에 의해 조절된 것으로 나타났다. 한 국가의 부의 정도가 친구나 기타 원천을 자금원천으로 사용하도록 촉진한 것으로 나타났다.