혁신형 중소기업의 사모주식발행이 R&D 투자에 미치는 영향 = The Effect of Private Equity Financing on R&D Investment of Innovative Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In this paper, we analyse empirically the effect of private equity financing on R&D investment of innovative small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) listed on Kosdaq Market of Korea Exchange. Korea Small and Medium Business Administration (SMBA) designates venture business, innobiz firms, and management innovative firms as innovative SMEs for policy purpose. The main results of this study can be summarized as follows. Private equity financing has a positive and significant effect on R&D investment, and cash asset change and working capital change have negative and significant effects on R&D investment. This implies that SMEs use part of private equity financing for current R&D investment, and hold remaining part of private equity financing as ‘precautionary’ cash asset and working capital until promising R&D investment opportunities will be found, and ultimately use large part of private equity financing for future R&D investment. However, private equity financing has a positive and significant effect on R&D investment of innovative SMEs, while it is insignificant for non-innovative ones. Moreover, private equity financing has a positive and significant effect on both asset-counted R&D investment and cost-counted R&D investment of innovative SMEs, while it is insignificant for non-innovative ones. Asset-counted R&D investment is counted as the intangible assets in the balance sheet, while cost-counted R&D investment is counted as the current expenses in the income statement. The intangible assets created by asset-counted R&D investment may act as an innovative driver that can have a greater multiplier effect on the firm value than the tangible assets. In conclusion, this paper shows evidence that SMEs use private equity financing to fund R&D investment in the existence of the asymmetric information. Moreover, innovative SMEs use more private equity financing to fund R&D investment than non-innovative ones. These findings suggest a new policy implication into how private equity financing can be particularly valuable to promote R&D investment of innovative SMEs such as venture business, innobiz firms, and management innovative firms.

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