Innovative Connections (Research on Enterprise Innovation Networks and Technological Innovation Methods)

Author: Zhang Weifeng
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: The main research work and innovative achievements of this book are as follows:
1. Innovating the mechanism of technological innovation connections through the theoretical research of enterprise innovation networks. This book argues that the main characteristics of innovation networks are interaction and embeddedness. Through the study of the innovation connection mechanism, interaction and relational embeddedness are combined with driving connections and network connections, achieving an organic theoretical connection between innovation connections and technological innovation methods. This further reveals the connection essence of technological innovation methods, laying a foundation for the study of technological innovation methods.
2. Different technological innovation methods are positively correlated with innovation performance. Traditional economic research often views technological innovation methods as the acquisition of external technical resources from the perspective of transaction cost theory or resources and capabilities, thereby neglecting the study of the relationship between technological innovation methods and innovation outputs.
3. Analyzing the effectiveness of technological innovation methods from the perspective of innovation connections. The selection of technological innovation methods is not only about the interaction between network nodes but is also related to embeddedness. This book links different technological innovation methods with innovation connections, allowing for better selection of different technological innovation methods.
4. This study uses path analysis to empirically find that innovation connections have a significant positive indirect influence on innovation performance through technological innovation methods. This verifies the path relationship between enterprise innovation performance and multiple network connections and driving connections. The differences in paths reveal the deep relationship and interdependence among the three-layer elements. This conclusion addresses the shortcomings of previous isolated studies on the relationship between innovation and output, or between innovation connections and innovation methods.