Founder Education Background,R&D Investment And Innovation Performance

China's economic development is facing a major transformation,"innovation-driven development strategy" came into being.It is of great significance to study the educational background of innovative entrepreneurs and its influence on the innovation activities and performance of enterprises.To the gem listed companies as the research object,this paper inspects company founder education background and the relationship between the innovation performance,to reveal the enterprise education background,founder of the influence on the performance of enterprise innovation,research and development innovation input intensity for entrepreneurship education background influences the performance of enterprise innovation intermediary effect and heterogeneity of the industry.In this paper,based on relevant database and data collected by hand won the 375 gem listed company founder of the related data,build the static panel data,first has carried on the descriptive analysis,founder and education background,research and development innovation performance,R&D innovation input intensity three relations put forward the corresponding research hypothesis,and four regression model is established.Empirical analysis shows that :(1)there is a significant positive correlation between the educational background of the founder of a gem listed company and the R&D innovation performance of the company.(2)there is a significant positive correlation between the educational level of the founder of a gem listed company and the investment intensity of enterprise R&D and innovation.The correlation is influenced by the founder's major,but has no significant correlation with whether the founder has received MBA education.(3)there is a significant positive correlation between R&D innovation input intensity and R&D innovation performance,and it is not affected by the founder's major;(4)on the whole,there is a significant positive correlation between MBA background of gem founder and enterprise R&D innovation performance;(5)R&D innovation input intensity plays an incomplete intermediary role in the influence of the educational background of the founder on the R&D innovation performance of the enterprise,indicating that the educational background of the founder has direct and indirect effects on the R&D innovation performance of the enterprise.Based on the above conclusions,this paper puts forward some Suggestions on strengthening innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities,enhancing the awareness of enterprise founders to attach importance to innovation and research and development investment,and guiding entrepreneurs to make entrepreneurship selection based on their own educational background.This study enriches the discussion on the relationship between enterprise founders and R&D innovation investment and R&D innovation performance,and USES the mediating effect model to test the influence path of educational background on R&D innovation performance.This is to improve the understanding of the leading role of the educational background of enterprise founders in innovation activities and innovation performance,and provide support for entrepreneurs to make rational entrepreneurial decisions,enterprises to improve R&D innovation performance,and schools to strengthen innovation and entrepreneurship education.The research object of this paper is the enterprise founder of more than 700 gem listed companies.After data collection and data cleaning,only 375 samples can finally obtain complete data.The follow-up research needs to be further deepened after expanding the samples.