모빌리티 생태계 발전과 스타트업 활성화

This study portraits how the mobility ecosystems has been constructed and evolved over time. And this ecological understanding of mobility ecosystems is specified in the Korean context. Drawn from community ecology, we specify (1) how mobility-dedicated de novo firms, as a nucleus of ecosystem creation, emerge in Korea and (2) what sub-fields of mobility are inter-related through forming the de novo firms. To capture how the Korea mobility ecocsystems are constructed, we employ social network analysis methods. Specifically, from the empirical observations that firms dedicated to the mobility field tend to use general purpose technologies (GPTs) to incorporate the knowledge from different fields, we construct 2-mode network constituted by de novo firms and their dedicated fields between 2015 and 2021. These network structures are converted to one-mode networks indicating how different fields are co-located by the creation of a de novo firm over time. Through analyzing such time-series social networks, we found five theoretical, practical, and political implications. First, the general pupose technologies (GPTs) play a critical role in creating the mobility ecosystems. This GPT-based evolution of the mobility ecosystems can provide a multi-dimensional understanding of the mobility fields. Second, given that the resource flows in and around the global moblility ecosystems (i.e. investments, firm formation, ecosystem proliferation etc.) show a decreasing growth pattern since 2018, for the further development of the mobility ecosystems, the financial aspects of the entrepreneurial processes (investments, financing processes, etc.) should be revisited. Third, mobility ecosystems are proliferated with metamorphic processes which unfold in terms of related technologies, their organizational entities and sub-fields involved, and organizational boundaries. We suggest that entrepreneurial-financing policies should be further developed to facilitate the metamorphic processes in the ecosystems. Fourth, the public policies need to foster the inter-connections between different industrial fields. For this, the mobliity ecosystems need to include how human capital can be developed, espeacially in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathemantics (i.e. STEM). Last, entrepreneurial processes bring the opportunities to expand the boundaries of the mobility ecosystems by incorporating disruptive technologies. For this, future studies further investigate how the concept of mobility is incarnated into the entrepreneurs, who can embody the values of moblility through their own business models.