Research On Influencing Factors And Mechanism Of Energy Enterprise Technology Innovation

The energy resource is an important guarantee of economic development. The development of modern economics is based on such resources like coal, oil, natural gas, hydropower and nuclear power, etc.. In the process of industrialization in China, the energy has played a crucial and indispensable role for supporting sustained and rapid development of China's economy. However, Chinese people's oil reserve every person only takes up 1/10 of the world's average, and for natural gas, 23%. Every thermal power can exhaust more 20% coal than the other countries. The emission of sulfur per year because of the coal burning is as much as the production of sulfuric acid. With an increasingly serious energy crisis, how can we China achieve the goal of sustainable development of energy and economics? That's an urgent problem needing to be resolved. To achieve the goal, China should try to explore the energy as much a possible, improve the efficiency of energy exploration and utilization, and make great efforts to develop nuclear power, wind power and the other new and renewable energies. As the innovation subject, technological reform of energy enterprises is the key to solving these problems. Only through accelerating technological progress and technological innovation of energy enterprises can solve the bottleneck problems of China's energy development and ensure sustainable supply of energies. Therefore, it is important to find out the key factors influencing on the technological capability and innovation performance of energy companies, study their effects on the mechanism, take effective means and measures to promote technological innovation of energy enterprises, and enhance innovation performance.Therefore, this thesis, taking the influencing factors of technological innovation performance in energy enterprises as its study objects, analyzes the mechanism of the key factors based on the theories of technical economics, engineering, etc., and studies various factors affecting the path and intensity of technological innovation performance by means of the model derivation, empirical analysis, and system simulation. The main contents are as the following: Firstly, based on the studies at home and broad, the thesis analyzes the mechanism of cultural innovation, network capacity, incentives of property rights, market structure, institutional innovation and technological capability, which affect technological innovations of energy enterprises. Those entrepreneurs, who have initiative spirits, have a keen insight into market opportunities, make innovative decisions and organize the implementation of innovation. Moreover, they promote technological innovations through system innovation, management innovation and cultural innovation. The cultural atmosphere of innovation has the function of guidance, constraints, motivation and cohesion for the enterprises and their employees. The network capacity, taken the capabilities of integration of innovative network resources and that of the enterprises'organization as the core, is essential for the technological innovation. The level of technological innovation activities in large part attributes to the function of property rights and the improvement of incentive mechanism. Technical capabilities include research and development ability and marketing ability, while technology learning capacity is the basis for the realization of technological innovation. The market has the mechanism of self-organization, which is an incentive system of low implementation cost and high efficiency. The market structure, which helps the best to realize technological innovation, is the structure dominated by large enterprises and cooperated together by large, medium and small enterprises. The government plays an important role in developing the key technologies of energy enterprises.Technological innovation can not do without the necessary institutional conditions. The system innovation should be the premise of the acceleration of technological innovation. Secondly, according to the analysis of key factors influencing technological innovations, taking technological innovation performance as outcome variables, technical ability and innovation will as intermediary variables, the thesis constructs the conceptual model, and presents 12 research propositions. The author studies influencing factors of technological innovation in 361 different energy enterprises through the questionnaire, and makes an empirical study on related propositions by using Structural Equation Model. Finally, 11 propositions have been tested. The research shows that, these key factors affect Technological Innovation Performance through technological capabilities and innovation wills. The technical capacity has a direct positive effect on performance, and the innovation will has positive effects on performance.Thirdly, the thesis, by using system dynamics, constructs the system dynamic model of influencing factors of Technological Innovation Performance in energy enterprises. According to the variable factors in simulation model, it simulates impact effect on the system of the different factors through the relevant test functions. The research shows that, in the foreseeable future, Technological Innovation Performance of energy enterprises develops slowly without using any policy controls and other promotion measures. However, system development grows fast after government policies and systems. Next, the thesis proposes to strengthen the market environment and the promotional function of oligopoly market structure, strengthen enterprise network capacity, improve the rationality of the property incentives, enhance entrepreneurship and cultural level of business innovations.Finally, the thesis proposes strategies of improving Technological Innovation Performance of energy enterprises. It is a complicated system. It should establish innovative culture, create an atmosphere of independent innovation, perfect the market environment and the oligopoly type of market structure, implement of active and effective incentive policies taking equity incentives as the core, strengthen the Government's guidance on technological innovation, and improve network capacity of energy enterprises by using innovative network.