| Afer reform and opening up, China has introduced, absorbed and reinnovated advanced technologies from industrialized countries. Because of this, technological level of most Chinese industries increases quickly, so as the whole competitiveness of China. The rich natural resources and the low labour costs make China become the “manufacturing plant”, which leads to the substantial increase of export. However, lack of core technologies is still the bottleneck which restricts further development of Chinese industry. Complex and varied enternal environment and quickly changed technologies weaken the late comer's advantage, which acquired by the means of introducing, absorbing and reinnovating, hence proposing new challenges to the country, industry and enterprise. China has been experiencing economic transition, which characterizes varieties and uncertainties of technological development. In this period, industries and enterprises face important choices. The choice of the industrial technology directly affects the industrial growing path and survival. Meanwhile, Chinese enterprises face the strategic dilemma of whether continue the competitive strategy of low cost and based on imitation or enhance indigenous innovation so as to becoming innovation leader. Chines enterprises are at a disadvantage position in the competition with foreign competitors due to the weak indigenous innovation capability. The huge science and technology funds of Chinese government provides an opportunity for Chinese enterprises, due to which, Chinese enterprises should consider how to make the R&D decisions to narrow the technology gap with developed countries and realize catch-up. As the global focus on energy security and environmental problems recently, it is desiderated for China to accelerate the adjustment of industrial structure and the transformation of production mode, increase the investment on clean technologies R&D, enhance technological innovation to improve energy utilization efficiency, and spread the utilization of new energies and renewable energy sources, to reduce energy security problems and the effect on environment, and then realize the socio-economic sustainable development.Existing literature notices the important role of shifting to emerging technologies and then achieving technological trajectory transition in the practice of national, industrial and enterprise technological catch-up, and points out that there are several factors that affect late comers' technological catching-up, and it is the interaction of these factors that drive or restrict the catching-up practice. However, existing literature has not comprehensively or systematicaly articulated how these influential factors affect technological trajectory transition. Consequently, this paper will thoroughly analyse the influential factors of technological trajectory transition, reveal the causes that lead to different transition outcome, with the prospect of providing reference for China's innovation practice.In the context of China's technological innovation practices, this paper analyses the interrelation among technological innovation, technological trajectory transition and innovation performance in the perspective of multi level and innovation ecosystem, finds out the key factor that affects technological trajectory transition, and reveals the effect mechanism of technological trajectory transition on innovation performance. Multi-level perspective includes innovation novelty and innovation openness. Innovation ecosystem perspective includes organizational learning capability, network relation strength and environmental concerns. Technological trajectory transition includes creative accumulation trajectory transition and creative destruction trajectory transition.Innovation novelty describes the degree of technology novelty in R&D activities, that is whether R&D activities is based on existing knowledge base or break away from existing knowledge base to explore totally new domain. Innovation openness describes the degree to which enterprises exploit external sources in their R&D or commercial activities, including the breadth and depth of sources importing and exporting. Organizational learning capability indicates organizational and managerial characteristics or elements that could promote organizational learning or allow organizations to learn. Network relation strength indicates the degree of relation between different actors. Environmental concerns, which incorporate government concerns and enterprise concerns, are regarded as the assessment or an attitude towards the effect of one's own or others' behavior on environment, indicating either a specific attitude which directly decides intentions or a general attitude or value orientation. Creative accumulation trajectory transition indicates that enterprises search new capabilities and technologies outside existing knowledge base to supplement and expand existing capabilities and technologies, and then achieve a different problem-solving method. Creative destruction trajectory transition indicates that enterprises replace old technology with new technology to achieve a totally different problem-solving method.On the basis of defining the variables used in this study, including innovation novelty, innovation openness, organizational learning capability, network relation strength, environmental concerns, creative accumulation trajectory transition and creative destruction trajectory transition, this paper constructs the conceptual model of technological innovation affects technological trajectory transition and innovation performance, reveals the effect mechanism among technological innovation, technological trajectory transition and innovation performance, and proposes relevant hypotheses. And then, based on existing mature measure index, this paper designs a scale to measure above variables, and utilizes questionnaire to acquire data. After that, this paper applies SPSS 19.0 and LISREL 8.70 to process and analyse acquired data so that checkout relavent hypotheses, and discusses the check results. The empirical results show that 10 out of 20 hypotheses pass the test, and the other 10 hypotheses don't pass the test. Finally, according to the empirical results, this paper makes a discussion based on Chinese enterprises technological innovation and industries innovation practices, and proposes managerial heuristics.The main conclusions of this study are as follows:?Innovation novelty, innovation openness, organizational learning capability and governmental environmental concerns have prominent positive effects on both creative accumulation trajectory transition and creative destruction trajectory transition. Network relation strength has prominent negative effect on both creative accumulation trajectory transition and creative destruction trajectory transition. Enterprise environmental concern doesn't have prominent positive effect on creative accumulation trajectory transition or creative destruction trajectory transition. Moreover, organizational learning capability has the maximum effect on both transition patterns.?Innovation openness, organizational learning capability, network relation strength and governmental environmental concerns have prominent positive effects on innovation performance. Innovation novelty and enterprise environmental concerns don't have prominent positive effect on innovation performance. Moreover, organizational learning capability has the maximum effect on innovation performance.?Creative accumulation trajectory transition doesn't have prominent positive effect on innovation performance, while creative destruction trajectory transition has prominent positive effect on innovation performance.? Innovation novelty doesn't have direct positive effect on innovation performance, nor has indirect positive effect on innovation performance through the intermediate role of creative accumulation trajectory transition, but has indirect positive effect on innovation performance through the intermediate role of creative destruction trajectory transition. Innovation openness has direct positive effect on innovation performance, and has indirect positive effect on innovation performance through the intermediate role of creative destruction trajectory transition, but doesn't have indirect positive effect on innovation performance through the intermediate role of creative accumulation trajectory transition. Governmental environmental concern has direct positive effect on innovation performance, and has indirect positive effect on innovation performance through the intermediate role of creative destruction trajectory transition, but doesn't have indirect positive effect on innovation performance through the intermediate role of creative accumulation trajectory transition. Enterprise environmental concern doesn't have direct positive effect on innovation performance, nor through the intermediate role of creative accumulation trajectory transition or creative destruction trajectory transition.The innovation points of this study are as follows:?This paper distinguishes two kinds of technological trajectory transition, namely creative accumulation trajectory transition and creative destruction trajectory transition, and respectively, investigates the factors that affect the two kinds of technological trajectory transition and the different effects of the two kinds of technological trajectory transition on innovation performance.?This paper investigates the effect of technological innovation on two kinds of technological trajectory transition in the perspective of multi level and innovation ecosystem, and finds out the key factor that affects technological trajectory transition. Moreover, in the perspective of innovation ecosystem, this paper distinguishes environmental concerns into governmental environmental concerns and enterprise environmental concerns, and respectively, investigates their different effect on technological trajectory transition.?This paper incorporates technological innovation in dual perspectives, two kinds of technological trajectory transition and innovation performance into a uniform research framework, explores the interrelation among them, and investigates the role played by technological trajectory transition in the impact of technological innovation on innovation performance. |
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