| In the era of knowledge economy, it has been a practical requirement to cultivate innovative talents for enhancing the comprehensive national strength. Since knowledge innovation permeates all aspects of economic and social life, the demand for innovative talents is becoming diversified multi-level. Economic boom and industrial upgrading need not only traditionally creative talents who are active in creation, science areas, but also need innovative talents in knowledge transfer, diffusion, application field. Cultivating innovative talents who are active in knowledge creation areas has been discussed a lot in many research projects, but the research on innovation talents who are active in knowledge transfer, diffusion and application field is still in initial stage. Based on this understanding, this study focuses on the research on vocational college students, and the development of their creativity.As a kind of important talents training mode, the school-enterprise cooperation education is thought highly of by education and economic circles all over the world. But by now, theories about school-enterprise cooperation education have all focused on training practical and applied talents. Most of them still stay on the level of descriptive analysis about some factors, such as cooperation motivation and influence factors. None of the theories have substantial breakthrough, because,in the era of knowledge economy,they all have not incorporated the mechanism and mode of knowledges flowing,sharing and creating between two heterogeneous interstitial into the study of the school-enterprise cooperation education. It will exert what influence when school and enterprises cooperate in education? What are the key indicators in the school-enterprise cooperation education? Work in different environment (school and enterprise), play two roles (school student and enterprise employee), supervised by two supervisors (practice guidance teachers and enterprise supervisor), it will take what changes with respect to the students' creativity? What role would the knowledge acquisition and knowledge sharing play in this process? Which one would play a more important role in improving the students' creativity, school or enterprise? What is the relationship between the school cooperation activities and enterprise cooperation activities? This research conducted a series of studies to find the answers to these questions.By analyzing relevant literature on school-enterprise cooperation, depth interviewing, discussing with experts, taking questionnaire survey, this paper is designed around school cooperation activities and enterprises cooperation activities. It took the school-enterprise cooperation activities as the independent variable, discussed the size, direction of its influence on creativity, examined its effect on knowledge sharing as medium. Besides the creativity, the other three variables studied in this paper are not single-dimensional structure, which all have widespread extension. This paper not only constructed the framework of the mutual influence between four variables in the conceptual level, but also extent to the factor stratification level, discussed in detail the size and direction of the interaction between the various dimensionalities. Based on the framework, this research proposed 16 hypotheses. The data which extracted from the questionnaire survey was taken into the processing of SPSS 18 and the AMOS 18 software. And all the hypotheses proposed have been tested by the means of statistical methods, variance analysis, regression analysis and structural equation model.The main conclusions of this study are as follows:1) the school cooperation activities and enterprise cooperation activities are both multi-dimensionality constructions, both can be measured by two dimensionalities:talents cultivation and school-enterprise cooperation; 2) school cooperation activities have significant effects on the students' creativity; 3) Enterprise cooperation activities have significant influence on the students' creativity in all dimensionalities, and it plays a more important role in creativity than school cooperation activities; 4) Knowledge sharing plays a intermediary role between the school-enterprise cooperation and creativity. Structural equation model analysis shows that the two dimensionalities of enterprises cooperation activities not only have direct effects on creativity, but also have indirect effects on creativity through knowledge sharing; 5) The school cooperation activities and enterprise cooperation activities are related. It means that the school can influence the enterprise cooperation activities by improving school cooperation activities; 6) the influence of Personal background variable and organization background variable on the knowledge sharing and creativity are limited.The major contributions of this research are as follows:1) this research develops the measuring scale for the measurement of the school cooperation activities and enterprise cooperation activities, and the validity and reliability of the scale have been verified by empirical testing. At present, the studies about the school-enterprise cooperation almost based on the qualitative research, lacking of quantitative research from the other perspective. The study on school-enterprise cooperation is still in initial stage. This research's achievements on school-enterprise cooperation shall lay a certain foundation for the subsequent studies.2) This research supports by theoretical reasoning and empirical analysis that school-enterprise cooperation is a effective way to improve students' creativity. Previous researches on the school-enterprise cooperation emphatically discuss its effect on training applied talents, rarely refer to cultivating innovative talents, this research not only studies the relationship between the school-enterprise cooperation and creativity, but also discuss the relationship between each dimensionality of the school-enterprise and the creativity. Therefore, this research on the above several variables shall have certain creative significance.3) The study has confirmed that knowledge sharing plays a intermediary role between the school-enterprise cooperation and creativity. And analyzing by a structural equation model, it further specifies the approach, size, direction acted on creativity by school-enterprise cooperation dimensionalities and knowledge sharing dimensionalities. Therefore, it further lays the foundation for the research on how to cultivating students' creativity by school-enterprise cooperation. In this paper the school-enterprise cooperation, knowledge sharing and relationship between creativity have been thoroughly discussed, and up to now, there are no relevant literatures being found focusing on this discussion. This research deepens the research on school-enterprise cooperation, at the same time the research expands the research field for the knowledge sharing and the creativity.4) This study confirms that the school, school-enterprise cooperation activities, enterprise, the school-enterprise cooperation activities have significantly positive correlation. It provides theoretical support for schools to mobilize the enthusiasm of participating in the school-enterprise cooperation of colleges and enterprises, and also changes the present situation which school is positive while the enterprise is not.5)Combined with the results of empirical research, this study puts forward some suggestions about how to raise the students' creativity by the school-enterprise cooperation education through three perspectives, namely the school, enterprise and government.In conclusion, using quantitative and qualitative methods, this study reveals the relationship among school-enterprise cooperation education, knowledge sharing and creativity deeply. The study not only develops scientific measurement tools and builds the model about the role of the three factors, but also confirms the three factors' prediction function in training creativity of students participating in school-enterprise cooperation education, providing guidance and support in personnel training trough school-enterprise cooperation education for schools and enterprises.
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