Study Of The Path Of Independent Innovation Of China's Enterprises

Chinese enterprises are facing huge opportunities and challenges brought by globalization and open innovation as inevitable trends.The key for Chinese enterprises to respond to the challenges and opportunities of globalization and open innovation is to follow the right route of indigenous innovation to promote level of innovation,speed of innovation and independent intellectual property rights in phase. But the evolutionary theory of the technological innovation,the theory of catching-up, or the theory of latecomer is insufficient in explaining the new practices on indigenous innovation of Chinese enterprises alone under trends of globalization and open innovation.So it urged some new perspectives on indigenous innovation based on theoretical integration to explain and guide innovation practices for Chinese enterprises.The study aims at the problems such as which routes to indigenous innovation of China's enterprises are and how to make innovation decision alone the route,and concludes three main research topics:First,what is the measure and measure weights of indigenous innovation for Chinese enterprises,and how to design corporate R & D resource allocation and R & D organizations;Second,what is the dynamic characteristics of indigenous innovation development along specified route;Third, how to make decision on indigenous innovation at particular stage along the route of indigenous innovation development.The study carried out a great deal of literature review,with emphasis on evolutionary theory of the technological innovation,the theory of catching-up,or the theory of latecomer,and bring out a basic model for innovation study based on compare from aspects of theoretical assumption,basic content,research variables among the three theories.Then there come exploratory case studies for three Chinese cases,i.e.Feiyue,Geely,and Qingchunbao.By exploratory case studies,it is found that the practice of indigenous innovation by Chinese enterprises include not only the route widely recognized by the second innovation model,the route praised by new headway such as the disruptive innovation model,but also the route reflecting technology window proposed by forgoing researches along a revolutionary innovation perspective.Some phenomena of these routes to indigenous innovation are explained partly by existing literatures,but all these routes have not been effectively explained totally,in particular about structure of indigenous innovation decision-making,and roles of influencing factors.By exploring the phenomenon summed up in the cases,a robust framework of indigenous innovation is proposed based on theoretical analysis. According to the framework,there are two interrelated research contents,i.e.the dynamism of route to indigenous innovation and the mechanism of indigenous innovation decision-making.Two sorts of empirical studies are carried out to test propositions respectively. First,a statistical analysis of curve estimation is used to check out the dynamism model of indigenous innovation along three kinds of routes,such as type of improving route,type of disruptive route,and type of revolutionary route.According to the results of curve estimation,almost all curves are prominent except two.The hypotheses test suggest that,dynamism of level of innovation,speed of innovation and independent intellectual property rights deserved enough attentions by Chinese enterprises along any route to indigenous innovation.And the sense of higher level of innovation,quicker speed of innovation,and more accumulation of independent intellectual property rights leading to higher innovation performance is totally wrong considering restrict of resource and stage of specified route to indigenous innovation.Second,structural equation model is applied to estimate model of the mechanism of indigenous innovation decision-making.According to the results,there are three conclusions.First,factors such as technological capability,technological learning, market competition and demand opportunity,are significant for innovation decision on allocation of R & D resources and organizing choice of R & D.Second,the original degree of R & D resources allocation is affected by technological capability, technological learning,and demand opportunity,and the open degree of R & D organization is affected by technological capability and market competition.Last,the original degree of R & D resources allocation shows positive effect on independent intellectual property rights,but insignificant effects on level of innovation and on speed of innovation,and the open degree of R & D organization shows all-around significant effects on level of innovation,speed of innovation and independent intellectual property rights.Furthermore,the analysis of grouped structural equation model by variable of industry type differentiated into science-technology-driven and experience-driven shows that two categories of samples have the same model about mechanism of indigenous innovation decision-making,but show totally different parameters for most of relationships.In short,by appropriate measuring input and output of indigenous innovation,the study solved two important problems on route to indigenous innovation of Chinese enterprises with theoretical and empirical test of model of dynamism of indigenous innovation route and model of mechanism of indigenous innovation decision-making. The research method and conclusions are a robust improvement to existing literatures on evolutionary theory of technological innovation,theory of catching-up,and theory of latecomer,promote a great step forward to theoretical integration by tapping into the black box of innovation behavior assumed by most of congener studies.And the result of the study brings significant advices of strategy making on innovation practices for Chinese enterprises,and others as technological latecomers globally.