창업 멘토링에 관한 통합적 연구

Venture start-ups are considered a major source of growth engines and innovation, but new venture that lack resources and experience face numerous challenges to grow into successful companies in the market. Accordingly, various support programs for venture start-ups are being prepared at the national level, and one of the representative support programs is start-up mentoring. Since 2016, the government has created an entrepreneurial mentoring program to support early venture companies, including prospective entrepreneurs. However, despite this support, there has been no significant improvement in the survival rate of start-ups, raising the need for fundamental reconsideration of entrepreneurial mentoring. This study identified the characteristics of organizational mentoring and differentiated entrepreneurial mentoring through a literature review on start-up mentoring and presented research topics in the field of start-up mentoring. The first research topic is to identify factors that affect the matching of mentees and mentors, which have a major impact on the effectiveness of entrepreneurial mentoring. In addition, in order to identify more effective matching, matching was categorized and a matching method required for each type was proposed. The second research topic focused on the relationship between entrepreneurial mentoring function and mentoring effectiveness. The third research topic, the necessity of developing a scale for the effectiveness of entrepreneurial mentoring was discussed, and factors affecting the effectiveness of start-up mentoring were presented. Finally, the effect of the role of professional operating institutions, which is the characteristic of entrepreneurial mentoring, on mentoring effectiveness was investigated. Based on the above discussion, six propositions were derived and an comprehensive conceptual model of entrepreneurial mentoring was presented.