Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship (벤처창업연구)

The Korean Society of Business Venturing (한국벤처창업학회)
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Empirical Study on Survival Factors of Youth Start-Ups

청년창업기업의 생존요인에 관한 실증연구

  • Received : 2023.11.08
  • Accepted : 2023.12.24
  • Published : 2023.12.31
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Abstract

This study analyzes the factors affecting the survival of young start-up companies. A youth start-up company was defined as a company with a founder's age under 39. The study was based on evaluation data from 3,540 companies evaluated by the Technology Guarantee Fund to support youth start-up guarantees during the period from 2012 to 2015. In this study, independent variables were defined as founder characteristics, start-up environment, and start-up strategy, and entrepreneurship, knowledge level, and development capabilities were set as variables for start-up characteristics, competition conditions and comparative advantage with alternatives in the start-up environment, and item novelty, commercialization plan and financing plan were set as variables. For variable measurement, the evaluation index of the youth start-up evaluation model of the Technology Guarantee Fund was used. Management performance was defined as the survival of a company, and the survival of 12, 36, 60, and 84 months was measured based on the occurrence of insolvency registered by the Korea Technology Guarantee Fund. The Cox proportional risk model was used for hypothesis testing. As a result of the analysis, knowledge level and development capability were statistically significant in the characteristics of the founder, and the financing plan in the start-up strategy was statistically significant regardless of the survival period. Among the start-up strategies, the novelty of the item had a positive effect on survival after 36 months. Entrepreneurship was significant only in 12-month survival. The most important order for survival was identified in the order of financing plan, knowledge level, item novelty and development capability, of which the founder's knowledge level in the beginning and the funding plan in the second half had the greatest impact.

본 연구는 청년창업기업의 생존요인을 분석한 것으로 기술보증기금이 청년창업기업 보증을 지원하기 위해 2012년부터 2015년까지의 기간에 평가한 3,540개 사의 평가자료를 기초로 이루어졌다. 청년창업기업 보증 대상은 창업자 연령이 39세 이하이다. 청년창업기업의 생존여부를 종속변수로, 창업자 특성, 창업환경, 창업전략을 독립변수로 정의하였다. 생존은 보증사고 발생 여부 기준으로 12개월, 36개월, 60개월, 84개월 생존으로 각각 정의하여 측정하였다. 창업자 특성은 기업가정신, 지식수준, 개발역량으로 정의하였다. 창업환경은 경쟁상황, 대체품과의 비교우위로 정의하였다. 창업전략은 아이템의 참신성, 사업화 계획, 자금조달계획으로 정의하였다. 이들 독립변수의 측정은 기술보증기금의 청년창업기업보증 심사자료를 활용하였다. 가설검정을 위해 Cox 비례위험모형을 활용하였다. 분석 결과, 창업자 특성의 항목인 지식수준, 개발역량과 창업전략의 항목인 자금조달계획이 12개월, 36개월, 60개월, 84개월 생존기간 모두에서 유의한 변수이다. 창업전략의 항목인 아이템의 참신성은 36개월, 60개월, 84개월 생존에서 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤다. 창업자 특성의 기업가정신은 12개월 생존에서만 유의하였다. 창업환경은 생존에 의미 있는 영향을 미치지 못한다. 생존에 중요한 순서는 자금조달계획, 지식수준, 아이템의 참신성, 개발역량 순으로 파악되었으며, 이중 초반에서는 창업자의 지식 수준이 후반에는 자금조달계획이 가장 큰 영향을 미치고 있다.

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