창업자특성이 연구개발역량 및 경영성과에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구

The policy supporting business start-ups has attracted interests around the nation as the economic growth with little employment and high unemployment rate continue recently. With the environment that start-ups incubating center, a birthplace for helping technology-based businesses, is playing a more important role, this study analysed how the entrepreneur's psychological characteristics has influenced R&D capability and business performance. The study showed that the desire for innovation, among other entrepreneur's characteristics, had more impacts on R&D capability. On the other hand, social adaptation has little relations with R&D capability. In addition to that, this study also identified that R&D capability had influenced on business performances. As a methodology, the thesis conducted a survey to the start-ups stationed in the incubating center, and a empirical analysis was done with the survey result. From this research, the author identified that the entrepreneur's characteristics had a positive impact on R&D capability, and eventual influence on the business performance. Based on this result, it seems that the government should create a policy to support the start-ups with the consideration of entrepreneur's characteristics. Also, the incubating center should make more efforts on planning various helping services and designing differentiated services to the start-ups.