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. Through the theoretical research of enterprise innovation networks, the innovative connection mechanism of technological innovation methods is explored. This book argues that the main characteristics of innovation networks are interaction and embeddedness. By studying the innovative connection mechanism, the combination of interaction and relational embeddedness with driving connections and network connections is achieved, realizing an organic theoretical connection between innovative connections and technological innovation methods, thereby further revealing the connection essence of technological innovation methods. This lays 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. The effectiveness of technological innovation methods is analyzed 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 employs path analysis to empirically discover that innovation connections have a significant positive indirect influence on innovation performance through technological innovation methods. This validates the path relationship that enterprise innovation performance depends on 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 studies that focused solely on the relationship between innovation and output, or solely on the relationship between innovation connections and innovation methods, in isolation.