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Firms rely more and more on external collaboration partners to reduce the R&D cost as well as shorten the product life cycle. Open innovation become a new paradigm for firms to become competitive in a highly dynamic business environment. Firm's collaboration partner extents from customers, suppliers to university, research institute, and even competitors, the resource based view hold that different...
SMEs are the important part of China's economy and innovation entities. Based on theoretical analysis, this paper puts forward an applicable innovation models for SMEs. An in-depth case study of Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment Co. Ltd is carried out to show how a firm's various kinds of technical and non-technical innovations influenced its business performance. This paper concludes that ingenious...
Chinese enterprises are inherently weak in scientific research and little input in this area, resulting an always weak position to participate in international competition. Enterprises whose target is fame and fortune are most concerned whether the scientific research promotes innovation performance. In this study, on the basis of in-depth study of knowledge management and science-based innovation...
Knowledge network embeddedness describes the external institutional arrangement of a firm's relationship with other firms to draw knowledge from external sources. Disruptive innovation has been a critical strategy to achieve indigenous technological innovations and catching-up in developing countries. The central tenet of our argument is that how well a disrupter performs is contingent upon the extent...
This paper takes Newzt in China as an example to study the open innovation in SMEs. And other SMEs can learn from it. After describing the situation of SMEs and introducing the conception of open innovation shortly and taking the open innovation model of Chesbrough's open innovation, the paper studies Newzt's background, situation and the result of open innovation. We can draw a conclusion from this...
Developing countries focus on radical innovation naturally when they implement the technology innovation to catch up with Developed countries. However, recent studies have indicated a high rate of failures in the radical innovation. This paper illustrates the obstacles for developing countries to implement the radical innovation. Then we introduce a new innovation method - Open-Disruptive Innovation...
With the economics and society globalization, international university-industry collaboration (which happens cross boundaries) is emerging, which is distinguish from the university network and from the usual university-industry collaboration in one country. Integrating open innovation, R&D globalization, national innovation system, and university-industry knowledge transfer, the study examines...
This paper studies the critical factors that SMEs should pay attention to when they managed their innovation networks to improve their innovation competences. We investigated 105 SMEs distributed in different industries with most of them in manufacture industry and got 204 valid questionnaires. The survey results show that there are 4 factors which influence SMEs innovation performance, i.e. partner...
Based on the analysis of modes of university-industry collaborative innovation in manufacturing industry and innovation characteristics in service, this thesis puts forward a fresh way to classify university industry collaborative innovation in service into four modes from two different perspectives. The basic characteristics of the four modes are compared. By looking at a typical case, this thesis...
In order to reduce the emission of automobile exhaust and overcome energy crisis, like other countries, China has launched incentive policies to develop new energy vehicles including electric vehicles since 2001. Additionally, as one of priorities in the Chinese national 5-year plans, it is a strategy to catch up in auto industries. This paper reviews the latest policy issued in November 2007 and...
R&D outsourcing has become a new trend and gains more and more concern in recent years. This paper empirically examines the relationship between R&D outsourcing intensity and firm performance. Based on the literature review of outsourcing and outsourcing intensity measurement, we put forward the determinants of R&D outsourcing intensity, which is composed of R&D outsourcing depth and...
The China International Marine Containers (Group) Ltd. (CIMC) is one of the first container manufacturers and sino-foreign joint ventures in China. The CIMC has achieved the saltant transition from a market follower to the industry leader through the continuous innovation. CIMCpsilas success could be attributed to its matching the STI-mode (Science, Technology and Innovation) learning and the DUI-mode...
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