Industrial Enterprise Innovation Behavior Research In Jiangsu Province

With China’s accession to WTO, manufacturing enterprises enter the global value chain, thus new changes on innovation activities appear accordingly. In this context, the government starts to establish a series of High-tech Development Zones in some areas where economy and technology are not relatively developed, to promote innovation development of enterprises. For backward countries, this paper puts forward a hypothesis on innovation of enterprises with different scales located inside and outside the High-tech Development Zones, indicates the enterprises innovation characteristics and its relied factors such as the production inputs,research and development expenditure, government expenditures, etc., under the condition of unlimited supplies of technology. Theory and qualitative research reveals that significant differences lie on the innovation of enterprises inside and outside the High-tech Development Zones. Inside the High-tech Development Zones, enterprises innovate forcefully on production and craft during the small and medium-sized scale stage, then slow down during the large scale stage. However, outside the High-tech Development Zones, enterprises behave contrarily, and even exceed the enterprises inside the High-teeh Development Zones during the beginning stage. Besides, small enterprises inside the zones focus more on original innovation from the initial development stage, but enterprises outside the zones mainly rely on the digestive absorption of innovation. As for medium-sized enterprises both inside and outside, they take care of both independent research and technology import. For promoting the independent innovation of Chinese enterprises, the related policies need to improve the systems of the zones, to encourage SME innovation and to guide more than direct help. In this way. enterprises inside the zones would be able to achieve the greater development.