기업가정신이 스타트업 창업의지에 미치는 영향: 글로벌 마인드의 매개효과를 중심으로

There have been mixed responses of expectation and discomfort among the people in both industry and academia on the fourth industrial revolution announced in World Economic Forum(WEF) in January, 2016. It is expected that a totally different age from previous 3 industrial revolutions will be coming with hyper-connection, hyper-convergence and hyper-intelligence of highly advanced technologies including artificial intelligence(AI), robotics, internet of things(IOT), big data, cloud computing, virtual reality(VR), augmented reality(AR), autonomous vehicles, 3D printing and so on. To cope with this radical change, governments are trying to boost entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention to start a start-up which will lead creative innovation for the sustainable development of national economy based on highly advanced ideas and technologies with innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking propensity. Studies on the relationship of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention have been tried by many researchers. However, few researchers have tried research about the mediating effects of global mindset on the relationship of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention in spite of the fact that global mindset will be a must for future entrepreneurs who has intention to start a start-up in the fields of highly advanced technologies which will lead the future of national economy in global environment of high competition and radical change. In this context, we have looked into the effect of entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial intention to start a start-up in this study. With regard to how entrepreneurship affects entrepreneurial intention, this study was designed to examine the mediating effects of global mindset. In order to accomplish the research purpose of this study, we propose the following four hypotheses with a theoretical model presented as below: H1: Entrepreneurship will have positive(+) effect on entrepreneurial intention. H2: Global mindset will have positive(+) effect on entrepreneurial intention. H3: Entrepreneurship will have positive(+) effect on global mindset. H4: Global mindset will mediate the effect of entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial intention. Then, to examine the above hypotheses, we conducted an empirical analysis of 330 students who were participating in entrepreneurship education classes at 4 universities in Seoul, participating in ‘Campus CEO Program’ supported by the government of Seoul Metropolitan City. This study shows empirical relationship between variables as follows: entrepreneurship and global mindset have positive(+) effect on entrepreneurial intention while entrepreneurship has positive(+) effect on global mindset, which meaningfully mediates the effect of entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial intention.