Research On The Mechanism Of EO Industrv-university Collaboration Innovation

Based on the contextual issues about the collaboration practice between industry and university, the paper analyses a mass of literatures and makes exploratory case study on four typical companies. And then, the research establishes the theoretical framework of entrepreneurship-oriented industry-university collaboration innovation (EO-IUCI) from the perspective of inter-organization relationship management. With the statistical analysis on the177samples of target firms, the paper does empirical research on the model of EO-IUCI and proposes some suggestions for making the innovation policies about the industry-university collaboration at the same time.Innovation-oriented strategies go through several different stages in the past twenty years in China. Today university plays a much more important role in the national innovation system than before. As the international competition being intense, the independent innovation capability should be improved through technology catching-up and surpassing strategy immediately. But now, the performance of IUCI is not good and there are still some obstacles in the collaboration. Based on this, the paper proposed three problems to be solved. First, how different types of industry-university collaboration relationship (IUCR) influence the firm innovation performance. Second, how does the intellectual capital (IC) acts as an intervening variable in the IUCI model. Third, with the entrepreneurship-oriented (EO) strategy, how managing the IUCR to improve the firm performance.At the beginning, the paper makes a systematic analysis on the current theoretical frameworks, hypothesis, variables and relationship between different variables through literature research on the IUCI, IC and EO. The scientific problems and the theoretical concepts which the research focus on are extracted. For constructing the primary theoretical framework, the research picks up four typical sample firms and makes exploratory case study on them.In the chapter4, the paper proposes all the hypothesis about the EO-IUCI model with further theoretical discussion on the base of literature research and exploratory case study. Until now, the EO-IUCI concept model has been constructed including three sub-model. The paper illustrates the conceptual modes about how IUCR influencing performance (RP model), mechanism of IUCI (RIP model) and how EO influencing the process of IUCI (REIP model).Empirical research is made for testing the conceptual model in the chapter5. The paper collects analysis dates from177sample firms through email, field survey, online survey and a professional information survey company. The results of empirical research indicate that related relationship and transactional relationship between industry and university have a positive interaction role in improving the firm performance and the IC plays a key intervening role in the process of IUCI. Meanwhile, the paper also indicates that EO would play a positive regulating effect on some paths of IUCI. In summary, there is a good fit between the conceptual model and sample dates. The paper proposes a tested theoretical model of EO-IUCI including RP model, RIP model and REIP model.Next, with the capability-process-resource-environment analysis framework of innovation policy, the paper makes analysis on the current policies for IUCI and brings up a guide for designing the innovation policies. According to the theoretical model of EO-IUCI, the paper gives some suggestions for improving the performance of IUCI based on the background and problems of the IUCI practice in China.At the last, the paper makes a conclusion of research results, theoretical contribution and practical implications. There still is some insufficient in this research in view of deep research of industry-university collaboration relationship, IUCI difference in different disciplines and inter-organization relationship dynamics. The paper also indicates that some theoretical issues are worth to be focus on in the future, such as further research on the management of IUCR, relationship between diversity strategy and IUCR, collaboration partnership searching and matching and so on.In summary, the paper explores and establishes the model of EO-IUCI from the perspective of inter-organization relationship management. The results of this research are very important at the development of the IUCI theory system. There are some valuable contributions for the development of IC and EO theory at the same time. EO-IUCI model and research conclusions will play a significant role in guiding the IUCI practice and improving the independent capability in China.