On The Influences Of The Social Capital On The Technology Innovation Of Enterprises

Technology innovation is a key for a nation to gain the superiority of competition and to realize the sustainable development. In addition, it is an inner variable for a nation, or a region, esp. for the main body of the market, enterprise to possess its sustainable capability of competitiveness. With the unifying of the world economy and the knowledge globalization, more and more hardly can an enterprise gain its superiority of competition only by its own resources. Thus spurs the enterprise to put its focal point of improving its superiority of competition on how to effectively integrate its resources inner and outside, to enhance its capability of knowledge creation and technology innovation. Nevertheless, the corporation and association with the outside enterprises are based on the well social capital, with the character of social organization, e.g. network, criterion and credit. This paper, in the perspective of sociology, emphasizes on the analysis of the influences of the social capital on the technology innovation of enterprises, referring to the newest outcomes of research of the social capital, being aware of that the social capital has become a key to the success of technology corporation and innovation and an important means of resources configuration, using the theory of social relation network, the theory of social resources and the theory of embeddedness. And it gives advices further on how to better our nation's social capital to benefit the technology innovation, on the base of the reality of social capital and enterprises' technology innovation in our country.