The study aims to address one of the contemporarily essential issues in management or corporate finance. It empirically attempts to identify financial components to determine corporate R&D intensity. Three primary hypotheses are postulated and tested ...
The study aims to address one of the contemporarily essential issues in management or corporate finance. It empirically attempts to identify financial components to determine corporate R&D intensity. Three primary hypotheses are postulated and tested in the study. Among total proposed variables, variables such as R&D expenditure made in the prior year, and interaction effect between R&D expenditure and the classification of high-tech sector, overall showed significant effects to determine the current R&D intensity. Results provided evidence that there is a non-linear relationship between the R&D intensity of current and prior year and, on average, a 3-year duration between R&D investments and profitability for SMEs. Currently, there are ongoing shortages of core components or materials required by the relevant domestic industries, that may be associated with the restrictions imposed by other nation(s). Accordingly, identification of financial determinants of R&D intensity is anticipated to function as catalysts to increase firm value by attaining to its optimal level, given that vast amounts of R&D expenditures are unprecedentedly scheduled to be invested in the relevant industries in the Korean capital market.