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The Effect of Team Characteristics of Technology-based Startup Programs on Patent Performance: Focusing on Team Diversity

기술기반 창업 프로그램의 팀 특성이 특허 성과에 미치는 효과 분석: 팀 다양성을 중심으로

  • 이재호 (한양대학교 경영학과) ;
  • 손영우 (고려대학교 첨단기술비즈니스학과) ;
  • 한정화 (한양대학교 경영학과) ;
  • 이상명 (한양대학교 경영학과)
  • Received : 2023.11.24
  • Accepted : 2024.01.20
  • Published : 2024.03.31
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Abstract

The global Industry has been shaped by start-ups that originated with knowledge-based innovative strategies or technologies in the 21st century. Specifically, laboratory start-ups that rely on research papers or patents for new technology development are recognized for their high survival rate and the creation of employment opportunities. Our study concentrated on 'I-Corps', which also introduced in Korea, standing for innovation corps is a laboratory startup program launched in 2011 by the NSF(National Research Foundation) to commercialize R&D results and foster entrepreneurship as part of the policy to build a start-up system at the national innovation level. In this study, we proposed and empirically tested a research model focusing on teams participating in the I-Corps program to determine how startup team diversity, among the team characteristics of laboratory startups, affected patent performance. As a result of the analysis, among the proposed variables, age diversity, educational background diversity, and value diversity had a significant impact on patent performance. The results of this study are expected to further strengthen the theoretical and practical foundations of researchers or practitioners of the I-Corps program, as well as related areas involving technology & laboratory startups, intellectual property and knowledge management fields in the future.

21세기 들어 혁신적인 전략이나 기술로 탄생한 벤처기업은 세계 경제를 이끄는 중심축이 되었다. 제4차산업혁명, 디지털 트랜스포메이션, AI, 전기차 등 거시적 지식기반 사회로의 이행에 따른 환경 변화 등으로 과학기술기반 창업에 대한 중요성이 날로 대두되고 있다. 특히 대학·출연(연)이 신기술 개발에 대한 연구논문이나 보유 특허를 기반으로한 실험실 창업은 생존율과 고용 창출효과가 높은 것으로 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 그 중 미연구재단(NSF)에서 개발하여 국내에도 도입된 실험실창업 혁신교육프로그램인 '아이코어(I-Corps)'에 주목하였다. 혁신군단을 뜻하는 아이코어는 2011년 NSF 주로도 국가혁신 차원의 창업시스템 구축 정책일환으로 R&D 결과물의 사업화 및 기업가 정신 육성을 위해 출범한 실험실 창업 프로그램으로 일반적인 기술이전이나 기술 사업화를 뛰어 넘는 잠재 수요가로부터의 시장 기회의 인지 및 효과적 사업화를 위한 시장 및 비즈니스 모델 개발을 지향하는 7주 동안의 시장발견 활동 등의 커리큘럼을 갖춘 스탠포드대학교의 SBL(Steve Blank Lean LaunchPad)이 아이코어의 모태가 되었다. 본 연구에서는 아이코어 프로그램 참여 팀들을 중심으로 실험실창업의 팀 특성 중 창업팀 다양성이 특허성과에 어떠한 영향을 끼쳤는지 연구모델을 제안하고 실증적으로 검증하였다. 분석 결과 제안된 변수들 중에서 연령 다양성, 학력 다양성, 가치관 다양성이 특허성과에 유의한 영향을 미쳤다. 본 연구의 결과는 향후 아이코어(I-Corps) 실험실창업 프로그램뿐만 아니라 기술창업, 지식 재산, 지식 경영 관련분야의 연구자들이나 실무 종사자들의 이론적, 실무적 기반을 더 탄탄히 할 것으로 기대한다.

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