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In this study, the effectiveness of government support program was defined as the difference of performance between participating and non-participating firms of the program. Also, the study suggested improvement plans enhancing the effectiveness of government support program through reviewing previous research(qualitative analysis) and empirical testing(quantitative analysis) on the performance of the program. We suggested improvement plans in two dimensions(responsible parties and the process for government support program). In the dimension of responsible parties, we suggested building total control system for national R&D program and enhancing innovative capacity of regional firms. In detail, we recommended ① performance-based allocation of R&D resources, ② systematizing performance management through reestablishing the policy direction and objective of the program, ③ building total control system for national R&D program, ④ expanding and consolidating R&D program for regional firms, ⑤ establishment of regional innovation network for reinforcing entrepreneurship, ⑥ the sense of responsibility for research fund, performance management and commercialization. Improvement plans in other dimensions were reinforcing survey-analysis-evaluation of government support program and evidence-based policy for regional R&D. Also, systematizing performance management and analysis through life-cycle and continuous monitoring and tracking management were suggested. In the process for government support program, detailed plans were ① reinforcing planning using statistical analysis for customized support program, ② building database for virtuous circle of regional R&D policy, ③ systematizing performance management and analysis through life-cycle and continuous monitoring and tracking management, ④ developing and adopting value index measuring interior capability and risk-taking tendency.

The purpose of this study is related to the entrepreneurial intentions of middle-aged and the elderly people for identifying the influence of institutional factors and psychological factors on the entrepreneurial intentions and the regulating effects of possessed property between the institutional factors and entrepreneurial intentions and psychological factors and entrepreneurial intentions. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, a survey was conducted targeting the middle-aged and the elderly people in the ages of 40~60 years who desired changing their jobs at Middle-aged/Elderly Career Center of the Labor and Management Development Foundation, and among 150 copies of collected questionnaires, 130 copies were finally used. SPSS 8.0 and AMOS 18.0 program was used for analysis and through this, the structural equation modeling was verified. Results are as follows. First, it was shown that in institutional factors, a negative social public opinion had a negative influence on entrepreneurial intentions and the entrepreneurship promotion policy and employment instability had no significant influence on entrepreneurial intentions. Second, the sub-factors of psychological factors such as risk sensitivity, achievement needs and work values all have shown to cause a significant positive influence on entrepreneurial intentions. Third, for the regulating effects of possessed property, regulating effects were shown between social public opinion and entrepreneurial intentions, sub-factors of psychological factors such as risk sensitivity and work values and entrepreneurial intentions.

This study analyzed the influential factors on the performance of 「the promotion project for social entrepreneurs such as youth in 2011」, which was driven for the purpose of creating jobs for younger generation and vitalizing social enterprises. The promotion project for social entrepreneurs such as youth provided supporting activities(education, founding space, management activity of agents, mentoring, resource excavation and connection) for totally 312 founding teams through totally 21 agents. This study analyzed influence of these supporting activities upon the performance of the promotion project(social performance, economic performance). To achieve the objective of this study, it considered documents and arranged prior researches in the theoretical background and empirically analyzed the correlation between the promotion project for social entrepreneurs such as youth and the performance using analytical method of Spearman rank correlation based on the performance analysis data and the field monitoring data of the agents and founding teams. Summarizing the results of this study, they are as follows. First, as a result of analyzing the project items of the founding teams, which participated in social entrepreneurs such as youth, the project items were excavated in the more diverse fields than the existing social enterprises project fields, such as educational culture, cultural art, environmental green energy, information communication, and social welfare field. Second, the analysis of social performance showed that the management activity of agents was indicated to have influence upon social performance. Education, founding space, resource excavation and connection, and mentoring activity were indicated to have no significant influence. Third, the analysis of economic performance showed that the supporting activity of the resource excavation and connection was indicated to have significant influence upon economic performance. Education or founding space, management activity, and mentoring activity as others were indicated to have no significant influence. Fourth, the educational activity, mentoring, and founding space of agents were indicated to fail to have influence upon both social and economic performances.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the relative efficiency of Korean entrepreneurship policy based on comparison with innovation-driven economies, and suggest policy implications. The study applies an input-based DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) model to nine countries out of the innovation-driven economies in order to measure the relative efficiencies for their entrepreneurship policy during the period 2009-2013. Four input factors include the Financial Support, Government Policy, Research and Development Transfer, and Commercial, Professional Infrastructure. Single output factor is Total Early-stage Entrepreneurial Activity. The results can be summarized as follows; First, technical efficiencies have been increasing throughout the analysis period while the majority of the countries were located under increasing returns to scale. Second, scale inefficiencies turn out to be greater than managerial inefficiencies. Third, the increases in output-based Malmquist productivity indexes were caused mainly by technological changes rather than technical efficiency changes. Last, according to DEA/Window analysis, average of window-wise technical efficiencies has been increasing during three-window period. Based on the analyses results, the study suggests three policy implications. First, the countries in the innovation-driven economies need to increase the input factors for entrepreneurship policy. Second, relatively inefficient countries need to catch up the reference countries by the way of benchmarking. Last, Korean government may as well pursue an effectiveness-oriented entrepreneurship policy rather than an efficiency-oriented one.

The purpose of this study was to explore critical success factors inducing practical startup challenge through individual startup internship of university students, identify factors influencing startup internship, and derive critical success factors from the relationship between such influential factors and practical startup challenge. Startup internship system is a program designed to support startup site operation in order to increase probability of success in business startup by helping build up experience with practical startup and overcome fear of failure based on performance of works by university students at the site of startup venture. We looked into the factors influencing the performance of startup internship to promote startup internship system that has been recently introduced. For analytical methodology, we used consecutive mixed research model incorporating both qualitative study and quantitative study. In relation to qualitative study, one-on-one interview was performed of 5 experts in startup education in order to identify factors influencing startup internship. In connection with quantitative study, 143 university students were surveyed based on variables identified in qualitative study. Based on results of analysis, the qualitative study derived 5 factors such as startup expertise and capability, startup internship management system, preparation for foreign language proficiency and capability, global competency improvement and practical startup challenge, etc. For quantitative study, the results of multiple regression test of variables showed that startup expertise, capability, and startup internship management system had a positive(+) causal relationship with global competency improvement while startup expertise and capability exhibited a positive(+) relationship with practical startup challenge. In addition, improvement of global competency had a positive correlation with practical startup challenge. Both startup expertise and capability were found to have high standardization coefficient for global competency improvement and practical startup challenge and therefore were considered as very important variables. Particularly, startup expertise and capability had high standardization coefficient for practical startup challenge, implying that both startup expertise and capability factors played important role in startup internship. The results of this study suggest that successful operation of startup education, such as startup internship, etc., would become more likely when factors related to startup expertise, capability, and startup internship management system are considered and provided in developing and utilizing the startup education, such as startup internship and carrier guidance programs.

This study explored factors affecting start-up intentions in university students in Korea and China. Six independent factors such as education for start-up promotion, culture promoting start-up, knowledge and technology capabilities, business administration capabilities, capabilities to get a job after graduation, and government policies were extracted and two dependent factors of comprehensive ‘start-up intention’ and ‘knowledge and technology based start-up intention’ were chosen for this study. From the results of analyses, two factors of ‘knowledge and technology capabilities’ and ‘business administration capabilities’ turned out to be the most significant factors in determining two different start-up intention. In addition, start-up promoting culture and government policies also significantly affected start-up intention. Also, the capabilities to get a job after graduation showed a proportionate relationship with start-up intentions. The difference of nation showed a mediating role in the relationship with knowledge and technology based start-up intentions.

As Taiwan and America are very famous in foundry and fabless semiconductor business, so, semiconductor became a major business in both countries. Also, semiconductor industry is becoming more and more influential on many different industries because many industries are adopting semiconductor as they move to high technology. Therefore, this study analyzed the case of Taiwan and American successful major semiconductor companies which are playing a leading role in entrepreneurship respectively, and they are successful companies in foundry and fabless industry. Also, TSMC is quite successful by adopting foundry business model, and Qualcomm is quite successful by utilizing CDMA technology in mobile communication industry. So, This study tried to find out how both companies could be successful in their business by adopting Innovativeness, Proactiveness and Risk-taking in entrepreneurship. Accordingly, There are some implications which could be helpful to other semiconductor companies.

The size of the mobile market, as represented by the recent LTE and smartphone is growing worldwide. Consumers are more and more time consuming to access the Internet via mobile devices such as smart phones, tablet PC than PC. This study is consistent with this mobile market innovative mobile solutions and mobile platforms that provide innovative start-up technology company founded conducted a case study of the TW Mobile Corporation. Two key services in the Smart Calling and iCalling will be platform that enable mobile global start-up as well as mobile start-up type solution that can be easily launched abroad. The significance of this case study is that first, this results provide significant insight into the various mobile related research within mobile platform which will be rapidly completed future. Second this case study also shows the possibility as well as a concrete answer that soho-type start up can be aimed at the global market.