제품개발공정의 기술능력이 R&D 매출 성과에 미치는 영향: 성장단계별 정부지원의 조절효과를 중심으로

New product or new technology developments are directly linked to a firm’ssurvival and thus their performance and improvement are gaining attention in the midstof rapidly changing business environment and aggravating competition. However, despiteSMEs’ significance in the national economy, they are limited in terms of size andresources in possession, so the government provides a variety of supports as a policy. According to a study on the organizational life cycle, a firm’s limits and difficulties differby growth stage, so the supports need to be tailored. Based on the data from 2,575 firms that responded to the “2011 SMEs TechnologicalStatistics,” how technological capability level and deviation in the R&D process affect theR&D sales performance was studied. The result of analysis revealed that thetechnological capability has a positive impact on the R&D sales performance. It was alsolearned that the relationship between deviation in the technological capability and R&Dsales performance was moderated by the government support. For the hypothesis that thegovernment support would have a different moderating effect by growth stage for theimpact the technology level has on the R&D sales performance, the empirical analysisshowed a different meaningful moderating effect for each growth stage. The theoretical implications of the study are that, instead of a simple relation ofdynamics that does not take the growth stages into account, it suggested a more realisticcausal relationship model that reflects the complex environment the SMEs are in and thatthe need for measuring and using the deviation in technological capability as a researchvariable has been justified. The practical implications are that the government policy forsupports can be tailored to a growth stage and that the guidelines have been suggested to effectively use the government funding by encouraging the SMEs in a differentgrowth stage to adapt to the customized policy.