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The Value of Entrepreneurial Orientation and Social Capital for Enhancing Collective Performance in R&D Collaborations of Korean Ventures

벤처기업의 R&D협력에서 사회적 자본과 기업가적 지향성이 협력성과에 미치는 영향

  • Seo, Ribin (Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester)
  • Received : 2016.08.05
  • Accepted : 2017.03.09
  • Published : 2017.03.31
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Abstract

In the last decades, technology-oriented small firms, i.e. venture businesses, have been increasingly engaged in R&D collaborations with external parties as strategic means for technological innovation. Despite ample evidence on the benefit of such collaborations for the firms, there has been less attention to examining whether and how the firms' social interactions with cooperating partners and their managerial characteristics contribute to that benefit. Drawing on the theories of social capital and entrepreneurial orientation, this study is to remedy this gap. The theory of social capital, referring to a sum of the value and potential resources embedded in social relationships of collectives, provides an integrated view of social factors among cooperating partners, e.g. strong ties, network stability, trust, reciprocity, shared vision and value. It categorizes these factors into structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions of social capital. Entrepreneurial orientation theory captures firms' managerial characteristics as a combination of innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking. This addresses firms' managerial process to utilize and combine internal and external resources for wealth creation and opportunity realization. Against this background, this study investigates what roles social capital among cooperating R&D partners and entrepreneurial orientation of the collaborating firms play for collective performance improvement in R&D collaborations. In terms of the collective performance, this study adopts two indicators: technological competitiveness and business performance. Technological competitiveness refers to the contribution of a technology developed by a cooperative R&D project to competitive advantage of a firm while business performance is defined as the financial and economic outcome of a collaboration. Using a sample of 218 Korean ventures engaging in R&D collaboration with external parties, the author finds the significant effects of social capital (i.e. structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions) and entrepreneurial orientation (i.e. innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking) on both of the technological competitiveness and the business performance. Further, the higher the social capital among R&D partners, the more likely it is to foster the entrepreneurial orientation at firm-level. Most importantly, the entrepreneurial orientation at firm-level is an significant mediator of the relationship between social capital and collective performance. Beyond these novel empirical findings, this study contributes to the literature on R&D collaboration. The findings' implications for management and policy are deeply discussed in the conclusion.

본 연구는 기술집약적 중소기업인 벤처기업이 외부주체와 수행하는 R&D협력에서 협력성과 강화요인을 규명하기 위해 수행되었다. 이를 위해 벤처기업의 기업가적 지향성과 협력주체 간 사회적 자본의 역할을 고찰하고, 각 요인이 협력성과에 미치는 영향을 실증적으로 분석하였다. 협력성과는 R&D협력을 통해 개발된 기술이 기업의 경쟁우위에 기여하는 정도를 의미하는 기술경쟁력과, 해당 기술을 상업적으로 활용하여 달성한 기업성과로 구분하였다. 설문조사를 통해 R&D협력을 수행한 벤처기업을 대상으로 설문조사를 하여 총 218개 표본기업의 응답데이터를 분석하였다. 그 결과, R&D협력에서 벤처기업의 기업가적 지향성과 협력주체 간 사회적 자본은 협력성과 창출에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 사회적 자본은 기업가적 지향성의 형성에 기여하며, 기업가적 지향성은 사회적 자본과 협력성과의 영향관계에서 완전매개의 역할을 담당하는 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 분석을 통해 [사회적 자본-기업가적 지향성-협력성과]의 R&D협력성과 창출구조가 작동한다는 사실을 확인하였다. 본 결과가 내포한 학문적 및 실무적 의의는 결론에서 상세히 기술하였다.

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