Research On The Impact Of Industry Associations On Private Enterprises' Innovation Behavior

At present,China is in a critical period of transforming the economic development mode,optimizing the economic structure,and transforming the growth momentum.Enterprise technological innovation is the source of power to achieve high-quality economic development,and private enterprises have become a new force of technological innovation.Under the trend of changing government functions and simplifying government and decentralization,industry associations,as an intermediary organization linking the government and enterprises,can effectively solve the limitation of the government-enterprise dual body in the economic restructuring and industrial upgrading and transformation to make up for the government and market failure,Play an important role in promoting independent innovation of enterprises and industrial transformation and upgrading.Therefore,this article has important practical significance to study the effect of industry associations on the innovation behavior of private enterprises and to explore the mechanism of industry associations on the innovation of private enterprises.In view of this,this article first analyzes the relationship between China 's industry associations and the government,the relationship between industry associations and private enterprise innovation,and the functional relationship between the three;through the analysis of the status quo of industry associations and private enterprise R & D innovation behavior,using literature research methods and The method of combining theory with empirical analysis,after theoretically analyzing and determining the role of industry associations in the research and development of private enterprises,this paper uses the 2010 national private enterprise sample survey data for empirical testing,and uses instrumental variables to analyze different properties by region and layer Industry associations 'role in R&D and innovation of private enterprises,further using the survey data of the three years of 2006,2008 and 2012 to verify the robustness of the regression results,and explore the analysis of the mechanism of industry associations on the behavior of R&D and innovation of private enterprises.According to the empirical results,put forward targeted policy recommendations.The research results show that,under the premise of controlling other factors,industry associations have a significant positive relationship with the R&D and innovation behavior of private enterprises.That is,private enterprises that join industry associations usually have a higher tendency and intensity of R&D investment.The analysis of the function mechanism shows that the private enterprises joining the industry association will promote the R&D and innovation of enterprises through the relief of external financing constraints,the acquisition of government subsidies and tax reductions,and the establishment of party organizations.The main contributions of this paper are:(1)This paper provides direct empirical evidence for the status and function of the "two new organizations" industry associations in the R&D and innovation of private enterprises from the perspective of theoretical and empirical analysis.(2)Existing research focuses on the impact of organizational characteristics and managerial traits on R&D and innovation of private enterprises.Institutional theory,high-level echelon theory and resource dependence theory all carry out multidimensional interpretations of R&D and innovation of private enterprises.From the perspective of studying the impact of industry associations on the R&D and innovation of private enterprises,it provides a path for private enterprises to upgrade their innovative industries.(3)Private enterprises joining industry associations have invisible political connection characteristics.The research in this paper shows that private enterprises joining industry associations encourage private enterprise R&D and innovation and expand the literature research on political connection.(4)In the analysis of heterogeneity,this study finds that whether it is a government-led industry association or an enterprise-led industry association will significantly promote R&D and innovation of enterprises,but the current effect of the former is greater than the latter,that is,the government The leading industry associations have greater utility.