The Research Into Effect Of Enterprise External Social Capital On Innovation

With the development of economic marketization, globalization and the growth of market competition,the technology innovation of modern enterprise reflect more as a dynamic and complex network,socialization process of knowledge creation. In the new competition environment, any enterprises have notbe completely isolated in long-term production, business operation and technology innovation activities,only relying on its internal limited resources has been unable to meet the needs of various technicalinnovation resources. In the process of innovation, the contact and knowledge exchange increasing quickly.From a perspective of sociology, how to access external information, knowledge, capital and talentseffectively through enterprise social capital will become the key of improving innovation level in the newperiod. Therefore, there is quite important theory and practice value to empirically research on therelationship between enterprise external social capital and technology innovation.Theoretical approach and empirical approach have been employed in the dissertation. First of all,analyzes the development course of enterprise social capital theory and technology innovation, and on thisbasis, looking back on the past research about the effects of enterprise social capital on the technologyinnovation. Then, the dissertation systematically analyses the effective mechanism of the enterpriseexternal social capital on technology innovation, and constructs affecting relationship model of theenterprise external social capital to the technology innovation, puts forward the technology innovationnetwork model under the condition of enterprise external social capital. Finally, through the related data oflarge industrial enterprises located in30provinces and regions nationally, empirically analysis and inspectthe effects of enterprise external social capital (links between enterprises and other social entities) on thetechnology innovation.Through theoretical and empirical studies, this dissertation concluded the following main conclusions:Firstly, the research clears the connotation of enterprise social capital. The enterprise social capital istangible and (or) invisible resources, which embeds in the enterprise relationship in the network and can beemploy through the enterprise relation network, and the use of these resources can contribute to reachingenterprise target. First, the enterprise social capital is different from the enterprise social network. Enterprise social network performances more carrier of enterprise social capital than enterprise socialcapital itself. Second, enterprises are the subjects of enterprise social capital but not the individual.Enterprise social capital, which is processed by enterprises, produces in the social network established bythe enterprises. The network should include all stakeholeders, such as government department, financialinstitutions, scientific research institutions, colleges and universities, other related enterprise and science&technology intermediators, which are all helpful for realizing the specific goal of the enterprise.Secondly, in the perspective of enterprise social capital, the effects of the links between enterprisesand different social entities to technology innovation are different. The following is the specific features: ofthe enterprise external social capita, the influence of the relationship between enterprise and financialinstitutions, scientific research institutions, universities to the enterprise technology innovation is ofdifferent positive effect. Compared with government agencies, other related enterprises and science&technology intermediators, the former relationship shows more positive and significant effect.Thirdly, enterprise external social capital has become a key factor influencing enterprise technologyinnovation. Along with the increasing socialization, network of the economic behavior, enterprisetechnology innovation activities is no longer a linear process of function promoting, but a socializedcreation process with benign interaction to other related entities. Now, the innovation mode has evoluted byone subject to multiple subjects, the enterprise should strengthen the connection with other social entities,and on this basis, build up a long-term and stable relationship network, ceaselessly accessing to variousresources of technology innovation as information, knowledge, capital and talent to resources, so as toimprove the level of technological innovation in enterprise.