竞争战略演化技术创新的影响——以江苏民营制造企业为例

基于江苏民营制造企业的问卷调查数据,在控制了地区和产业类别影响前提下,探讨同一情境下处于生命周期不同阶段企业取得竞争优势的竞争战略所构成的演化路径,并从技术创新视角揭示竞争战略演化的动因。研究表明,处于初创期、成长期、成熟期的企业,竞争战略呈现＂没有明确选择-低成本战略-差异化战略＂的演化路径。工艺创新对低成本战略演化有显著影响,产品创新对差异化战略演化有显著影响。总体上看,工艺创新是企业竞争战略演化的主要推动力。推进制造企业转型升级,需要加大产品创新力度,提升产品创新对竞争战略的影响。     

促进西部省域工业企业创新的政策设计——四川省工业企业的实证分析

我国工业发展水平呈现西弱东强的格局,促进西部省域工业企业创新、加速提升其自主创新能力对于中国工业经济加快走新型工业化道路、转变经济发展方式具有现实意义。在我国现行体制下,地方政府在地区经济发展中起着举足轻重的作用,因而结合制度安排设计促进企业创新的政策,并经地方政府推动实施,以实现地区工业企业的跨越发展。在创新理论的指导下,以四川省工业企业为研究实例,在进行样本企业的问卷调查及样本企业的观测点的量化测度基础上,运用因子分析法和主成分分析法,通过实证分析找出影响西部省域工业企业自主创新能力的五个核心因素和八个重要因素。从而提出促进西部省域工业企业创新、提升其创新能力的“深化以创新为目标的制度改革”等七类二十三项政策建议。     

基于软系统方法的整合创新模型研究

创新过程从本质上讲是一个无结构系统创立或变革的过程,而处理无结构、多目标复杂问题正是软系统方法的优势。在借鉴国外相关创新模型的基础上,提出了一个基于软系统方法的整合创新模型。     

城镇化视阈中人地挂钩制度创新及保障机制

采用新制度经济学研究方法,针对城镇化视阈中人地挂钩的多种要素、多元主体间的制度创新动因、运行模式、损益及冲突、流程设计和保障机制进行系统研究。结论表明,人地挂钩制度创新动因是城镇化进程中土地城镇化与人口城镇化的脱节、土地粗放利用与经济产值及人口承载力的偏差、土地空间融合与人口身份隔离等人地脱钩,是制度供需矛盾的必然产物。人地挂钩的制度具有协同管理、要素流动、权益保障、宏微观定位等功能,运行模式有城市化率增长匹配模式、地随人走模式以及有效就业指向的激励模式。人地挂钩制度创新对城市新市民、城市原市民、迁入地企业、迁入迁出地地方政府、中央政府等不同参与主体具有正和或零和收益,但推行过程面临创新主体利益、进程快慢、地区差异引起的潜在冲突与挑战。实践保障上,人地挂钩制度包括8个环节操作流程和4方面的系统支撑。     

基于文献计量的我国创新驱动研究述评

基于中国期刊全文数据库和国家哲学社会科学学术期刊数据库,运用文献计量方法,对848篇创新驱动研究论文的研究特征和主题内容进行了总结分析,揭示了该主题领域的期刊与学科分布、核心作者群以及机构和区域分布。从研究主题来看,国内创新驱动理论成果划分为国家层面的宏观研究、产业和区域层面的中观研究、企业层面的微观研究3个层次。最后进行研究展望,认为创新驱动产业升级和经济发展的机理仍将是创新驱动系统的研究重点,基础研究和商业模式创新的驱动作用是重要衍生问题,科技金融和知识产权则是探讨的分域热点,创新驱动的绿色化和民主化将成为研究新趋向。     

社会资本对产学研合作创新绩效的影响机理--基于指定搜索方法和结构方程的实证

针对社会资本如何影响产学研合作创新的问题,文章基于创新绩效视角,首先构建了社会资本结构维、关系维和认知维对产学研合作创新绩效影响的理论框架;然后,选择我国132家企业、大学和研究机构为研究对象,利用指定搜索方法确定结构维、关系维和认知维之间的最佳互动关系,并对所提假设运用结构方程模型进行验证和模型修正。修正模型的结果表明：社会资本对产学研合作创新绩效产生(0.69)直接正向影响;节点度对产学研合作创新绩效提升的影响不明显;社会资本各维度及其测度指标对产学研合作创新绩效产生小于0.5的间接正向影响;结构维对关系维与产学研合作创新绩效的影响路径起中介作用。     

Preparing for distant collaboration: Antecedents to potential absorptive capacity in cross-industry innovation

Cross-industry innovation entails distinctive innovation opportunities and challenges according to the knowledge heterogeneity between the collaborating firms. This heterogeneity yields increases in organizational-level cognitive distance. Whereas recent theory suggests cognitive distance is positively related to exploratory innovation, too much distance can hinder efficient knowledge absorption and results in a reduced effect on novelty value. This paper focuses on the research question of how to build potential absorptive capacity for distant collaboration beyond established industry boundaries to gain radical rather than incremental results. To address this question, we mapped a cross-industry network using survey data on 215 bilateral cross-industry collaborations between firms from a variety of industries and captured cognitive proximity (the inverse of distance) in terms of overall knowledge redundancy between firms. This approach introduces a new method to infer organizational-level cognitive distance from network analysis. Subsequently, based on results from the network analysis, we examined coordination antecedents to potential absorptive capacity for cross-industry innovation with partners at moderate and high distance applying case study analysis. Our study revealed three alternative approaches to coordination antecedents that drive a firm?s potential absorptive capacity for distant collaboration. These findings extend research on absorptive capacity to the field of cross-industry innovation.     

Barriers to innovation through public procurement: A supplier perspective

Public procurement is increasingly viewed as having important potential to drive innovation. Despite this interest, numerous barriers prevent the public sector from acting as an intelligent and informed customer. This paper seeks to understand how barriers related to processes, competences, procedures and relationships in public procurement influence suppliers? ability to innovate and to reap the benefits of innovation. We address this by exploiting a dedicated survey of public sector suppliers in the UK, using a probit model to investigate the influence of structural, market and innovation determinants on suppliers? perception of these barriers.     

Bridging the cultural divide: Trust formation in university–industry research collaborations in the US,Japan, and South Korea

Academia and industry increasingly work together, but this is not always an easy endeavor. In this article we investigate how relational mechanisms facilitate trust formation in university–industry research collaborations (UICs) in three countries and contribute to the understanding of international similarities and differences in UICs by considering institutional factors, specifically, the strength and maturity of UICs in each country. Analyzing survey data of 618 recent UICs in the US, Japan, and South Korea, we identify the activities of innovation champions as a critical trust building mechanism between firms and universities that complements initial trust formation through tie strength, partner reputation, and contractual safeguards. We find that partner reputation and champion behavior are more important for trust formation in South Korea than in the US and Japan, indicating that in ‘emerging UIC countries’ where most firms and universities have little collaboration experience, reputation and the leadership by innovation champions are more important for trust formation in UICs than in ‘advanced UIC countries’ with strong and mature UIC networks. From a public policy perspective, our findings suggest that networks between firms and universities should be generally strengthened and collaboration partners should be provided with effective contractual safeguards to enhance trust formation in UICs.     

Policy-driven ecosystems for new vaccine development

This paper examines the relationship between biomedical policies and entrepreneurial R&D strategies. Public health programs have been unable to provide effective and affordable treatment of infectious diseases for the poor. While governments have become more open to private sector contributions to policy objectives, it is rare to find new ventures commercializing healthcare innovations for neglected diseases. Two case studies of entrepreneurial ventures, in the UK and China, provide evidence on how resource-constrained firms mobilize participants in policy-specific ecosystems to achieve their goals of new vaccine development for tuberculosis. Ecosystem analysis reveals how the innovators’ business models can align their strategies with national policy objectives.