중소기업의 특성이 기술혁신에 미치는 영향 -대구지역 중소 제조기업을 대상으로-
SMEs Characteristics and Technological Innovation -In the Case of Manufacturing SMEs in Daegu Region-
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중소기업을 대상으로 기술혁신 결정요인을 분석한 실증연구는 부족한 실정이며, 수행된 연구 또한 단편적인 분석 수준에 머무르고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 기존연구에서 일관성을 보이지 못한 요인들과 통제변수로 도입된 요인들을 총체적으로 분석하고자 한다. 즉, 연령, 최고경영자의 기업가정신, 소유구조(경영진, 종업원, 외국인투자자 및 벤처캐피털의 주식소유), 규모 및 혁신능력이 기술혁신과 어떤 관계인지를 규명한다. 또한 기술혁신의 증가가 재무성과를 향상시키는지도 검증한다. 이를 위해 대구지역 제조기업 중 2004~2007년간 매출액이 30억원 이상인 185개 기업으로부터 설문자료를 수집하여 분석한 결과, 최고경영자의 기업가정신, 경영진․종업원․외국인투자자․벤처캐피털의 주식소유, 규모, 혁신능력은 기술혁신에 긍정적으로 유의한 영향을 미쳤으나 연령은 유의하지 않았다. 또한 기술혁신은 재무성과에 긍정적으로 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구에서는 실증연구 결과의 이론적 및 실무적 시사점과 향후 연구의 방향도 함께 논의하고 있다.
Abstract
Technological innovation is widely recognized to be essential for the survival and growth of individual firms, and also for the sustainability of national and regional economic growth. There is strong evidence in the literature to support the view that technological innovation in manufacturing companies is one of the main reasons for industrial competitiveness and national development. According to several specialists, innovation is now unavoidable for companies which want to develop and maintain a competitive advantage and gain entry into new markets. Also, technological innovation is key to the economic performance of firms. Innovative firms grow more quickly and make higher profits. If nonetheless many firms do not dare to innovate, this has to do with several types of risks and uncertainties that lead to high failure rates. The undeniable importance of innovation for contemporary companies justifies the increasing interest that researchers are taking in it. However, if the number of papers on the topic has evolved exponentially during the last decades, there is still no precise prescription for successful technological innovation. Hence, the questions as to why some firms are technologically innovative and others are not, and what factors affect a firm's ability to innovate are fundamental to management research and practice. Namely, what determines SMEs' technological innovation? Several researchers have tested the effect of a large number of technological innovation-related variables. However, even though they tested similar variables, they discovered differing degrees of association with the rate of technological innovation. This dispersion of outcomes may have several reasons. One may be the heterogeneity regarding samples as well as methods. Samples differ as some studies investigate one specific industry whereas others cover several industries. Methods differ, as some studies are qualitative while others adopt a quantitative approach. A more general problem is that success or failure of projects is likely to have an impact on personal careers. People responsible for a successful project may tend to give the credits primarily to themselves, while in the case of failed projects one may try to shift responsibilities to others. The innovation process is thus still poorly understood and the current state of the literature contributes little to improving our understanding of the phenomenon. Accordingly, there is an obvious need to assess more systematically factors behind success of technological innovation. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of firm characteristics(firm age, CEO's entrepreneurship, ownership structure, firm size, and innovative capability) on technological innovation using the firm level data in the case of manufacturing SMEs in Daegu region. In addition, this study will identify the relationship between technological innovation and financial performance. This study suggests that firm age, CEO's entrepreneurship, ownership structure, firm size, and innovative capability have significant and positive effects on technological innovation of small and medium-sized firms and that technological innovation have significant and positive effects on financial performance. A questionnaire was developed to measure the characteristics of SMEs and technological innovation performance. To test the hypotheses, data were collected from the small and medium-sized firms located in Daegu region. In order to increase the response rate, follow-up letters, emails and phone calls were used. A total 300 questionnaires were mailed. The survey data of 185 firms were collected and integrated as the empirical base for testing the hypotheses. Most respondents were from the managers. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were used to examine the hypotheses. Major results are as follows: Firstly, firm age was not significantly related to technological innovation. Thus, this research support neither of the previous claims, that firm age has a positive impact on technological innovation or that it has a negative impact on technological innovation. However, future research in the SMEs of other region is needed to verify whether similar results hold true. Secondly, CEO's entrepreneurship had significant and positive effects on technological innovation. Namely, the more CEO is innovative, the more successful technological innovation will be. This study confirmed previous research result that CEO's entrepreneurship has a significant positive influence on SMEs' technological innovation. Therefore, SMEs that want to introduce successful technological innovation should have to encourage their CEO's innovativeness. Thirdly, ownership structure had significant and positive effects on technological innovation. In other words, CEO stock ownership, employee stock ownership, foreign investors ownership, and venture capital ownership were positively related to SMEs' technological innovation. This result is similar with most of previous researches dealing with corporate governance structure and organizational innovation. Hence, SMEs should have to diversify their ownership structure to carry out technological innovation. Fourthly, firm size had significant and positive effects on technological innovation. The debate on the effect of size on technological innovation goes back to Schumpeter's fundamental work in which he proposes two contradictory assumptions. In 1934, he states that entrepreneurs and start-ups represent the foremost source of new ideas and technologies. However, in 1942, he suggests that innovation actively increases more than proportionally with firm size. The debate was thereby launched and size became one of the variables most studied as a determinants of technological innovation. But, this research result showed that firm size has a positive effect on technological innovation. This means that large SMEs companies have more resources to innovate and support risky activities than do small SMEs. Fifthly, innovative capability had significant and positive effects on technological innovation. The role that internal resources such as human resource play as an innovation determinant is varied. It helps companies to create, exploit and transform new knowledge into new products and/or processes. It also helps them to absorb (i.e. acquire, assimilate, transform, and exploit) new technologies appearing on the market and to attract collaborative partners. Also, doing innovation internally is particularly important for technological innovation in new-technology settings where it is very costly and particularly difficult, even impossible, to acquire new technologies produced by competitors. This research results suggested that staffing SMEs with highly educated, technically qualified and experienced personnel with diverse background is an important determinant of technological innovation. According to this research, excellent human resources help SMEs to create new technologies and absorb outside-developed ones. Research results also suggested that technological innovation was positively and significantly associated with financial performance. This results implies that technological innovation guarantees the success of small and medium-sized firms. Previous researches on the relationships between technological innovation and financial performance in SMEs suggested two type of research results. The one is no significant, and the other is positive and significant relationships between the two variables. Researchers asserted that technological innovation of SMEs has positive influence on financial performance because technological innovation can provide SMEs with new business opportunities, first-mover advantage, market competitiveness, competitive advantage, overseas new market expansion, and long-term survival. Also, technological innovation of SMEs contribute to financial performance through the improvement of business establishment, uplift of growth possibility, market share and productivity efficiency enlargement. Especially, High production efficiency by the technological innovation can accomplish new product development which tend to offer SMEs cost efficiency and customer satisfaction. Conclusively, these results suggested that CEO's entrepreneurship, ownership structure, firm size, and innovative capability were an important means by which small and medium-sized firms can promote innovation. Several future researches need to overcome the limitations of this research. First, although firm age was not significantly related with technological innovation in this research, it was very important factor influencing technological innovation in previous research. Therefore Future research needs to implement different samples. Secondly, future research must consider any other governance mechanism such as rival companies to extend our research findings. Thirdly, more control variables could investigate different results on this issue in the future.
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