벤처기업 연계협력에서 사회적 자본의 역할복합성:대구･경북지역의 경험

It is widely recognized that the cooperative alliances of venture firms are critical to the competitive advantage of venture firms and regions. There is also recently a rapid awareness that social capital is requisite to the effectiveness of the cooperative alliances between a multitude of protagonists. Therefore, much has been written on the impact of cooperative alliances of venture firms and the roles of social capital in relation to the competitiveness. However, the combining analysis for both the cooperative alliances of venture firms and the roles of social capital has been quite limited until a recent date. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to integrate the cooperative alliance experiences of venture firms with the roles of social capital. More specifically, this study tries to test 3hypotheses that help explain the cooperative alliance performances of venture firms influenced by the nature, characteristics, and type of social capital. This study claims that social capital is important to the effectiveness of the cooperative alliances of venture firms to a certain degree. In addition, the effectiveness of social capital depends upon the characteristics of venture firms to a large extent. The analysis shows that the relationship hypothesis between the development stages of venture firms and the types of social capital is quite ambiguous. Nevertheless, irrespective of the development stages of venture firms, the role of bridging social capital seems to be more important than that of bonding social capital in the cooperative alliances of venture firms. In sum, the roles of social capital seem to be quite complex in the effectiveness of the cooperative alliances of venture firms for the technological development.