A Relationship Research Between Alliance Capability、innovation Network And Innovation Performance

As an important driving force and an integral part of local economy, the SMEs have become the main force for regional economic growth and technological innovation. However, the market complexity, environmental uncertainties and technological integrity push the innovation capacity of a single company into severe constraints and challenges. Therefore seeking external support resources from "allies" and taking the "network" road have become a necessity. Especially during the national "five strategic" period, enterprises’ collaboration and networking innovation paradigm trend is growing obviously. SME managers have hopes to explore new organizational management models, strengthen alliance capability and build innovation networks to overcome the constraints from lacking of resources,short growing period and lacking of management skills in SMEs.Thus, this paper will take the alliance capability as a starting point, combing with innovation network and innovation performance network theories, to re-examine the problem of "strategic alliance and network innovation" in SMEs. This paper takes the practice of SMEs development problems in Zhejiang Province into alliance capability and social network theory research framework, it will construct a conceptual model by which the alliances ability influence the innovation performance via the intermediary role of innovation network, this will also explore the driving force to to enhance the innovation performance of SMEs. By interviewing among the experts and business executives, as well as 262 subjects of the questionnaire, the paper uses SPSS and AMOS statistical tools to validate and revise the initial model, which comes up to the following conclusions: Firstly, the alliance capability have significant positive effects on innovation networks, and different dimensions of alliance capability will exert different power on network structure and network relationships separately. Secondly, the innovation network has a significant impact on the innovation performance, network structure and network relationship will produce a positive effect on innovation performance.Thirdly, different dimensions of alliance capability have different influence on innovation performance, the alliance management capability has a direct positive impact on innovation performance, while the impact of alliance constructing capability and alliance learning capability on innovation performance are not significant.These findings, on the one hand, provide a new way of thinking and methods for the theorists to break the plight of improving innovation network performance, help to put forward the research model of "alliance capability- innovation network-innovation performance," which will also enrich the content and the ideas of alliance capability, innovation networks and innovation performance theories. On the other hand, the SMEs will build innovation network and improve innovation performance according to their ability based on this strong practical significance. This result also gives hints for the relevant government departments to promote the regional innovation networks’ upgrading and developing, which in turn improves the environment of innovation network.