지역 창업생태계 분석을 통한 청년창업 활성화 방안 연구: 대전지역 창업지원 프로그램 참여자를 중심으로

Abstract

Due to the economic recession, the national government and the local government significantly have considered the problems of existing economic and social structures that cause the high unemployment rate especially in young adults. For this reason, both governments concentrate on the making polices and business programs for revitalizing entrepreneurship for young adults. The main purpose of this study is to explore the local entrepreneurial ecosystem for revitalizing entrepreneurship in young adults. We utilized a dataset of 269 startup companies supported by the City of Daejeon and Daejeon Business Agency for entrepreneurship for young adults. This paper also provides the revitalization plans of entrepreneurship for young adults through the analysis of local entrepreneurial ecosystem based on four major factors such as start-up support system, start-up culture, training human resource, and financial support. First, the findings show that while there exists a meaningful performance in the infrastructure support, financial support and commercialization support, the performance in training human resource such as entrepreneurship education appears to need some significant improvements. Second, within the context of structural problems for the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, especially for young adult entrepreneurs, the major barrier is the lack of financial infrastructure to secure start-up funds and the supportive policies to keep a livelihood for start-up success. Therefore, there need supporting programs for building a systematic venture capital system and providing professional education programs and mentoring services. In order to revitalize the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, we suggest policy implications that enable the young adult entrepreneurs in Daejeon area to receive benefits for their venture creation activities such as start-up benefits, expansion of angel investment and crowd funding, start-up tax reduction and so on. Moreover, from the findings, we also suggest priority polices for strengthening the linkage among the components of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Daejeon area within the advantages of geographic conditions, abundant human resources and collaborative organizations. Finally, we have found some practical implications for the financial policies to support young adult entrepreneurs and their successful venture creation activities across the various startup funding policies.