Research On The Enterprise Networking Innovation Based On Knowledge Network

In response to the increasingly complex and volatile market and technology environment, more and more enterprises begin the implementation of the out-sourcing strategy. They access to critical resources through various firm networks and promote their innovation model from linear to network fundamentally. The property of all kinds of networks, such as supply chain collaboration network, outsourcing network, strategic alliances, industry clusters and so on fully proved networks have become an important source of competitiveness. Network, especially knowledge network, as a new incubator and channel of the new innovation model, has become a hotspot of research. In China, the research of knowledge network and networking innovation are mostly based on the theoretical exploration stage, and take the network relation and structure as the main areas of research. The empirical and systematic research is rare. Therefore the firms networks research based on the perspective of knowledge, which is the origin of innovation, is necessary.With literature research, questionnaire investigation, typical case study, mathematic statistic and SEM model, the main content and results of this research are listed as follows:Firstly, this dissertation breaks through the environment paradigm and source paradigm for the research on innovation advantages. Based on the previous research results, this dissertation analyses the networking innovation mechanism and stresses that knowledge network has become an important source of innovation advantage in the era of knowledge economy.Secondly, by using the theory of technology innovation, firm network and knowledge network, this dissertation studies the knowledge and the basic elements of knowledge activities and builds a firm knowledge network system model. Besides the relation element, which is the main content of past theoretical research, this model develops five elements of knowledge network including environment element, agent element, resource element and context element. Base on this model, we construct the construction mechanism between elements quality and network structure, and process mechanism between element quality and process efficiency.Thirdly, to settle and validate these problems and hypothesizes, based on literature research, the author implements large-scale empirical research. By using factor analysis, correlation analysis and SEM structural equation modeling, this dissertation validates the internal mechanism between firm knowledge network and innovation performance, the construction mechanism between elements quality and network structure, and process mechanism between element quality and process efficiency. The path relations among the elements, structure, process and performance of firm knowledge network is found out. This model is conducive to improve the knowledge network theory, and provides a referece framework for Chinese enterprises and industry parks to upgrade their innovation capability.