An Empirical Study Of Collaborative Creativity Among Innovative Companies

As the driving force of innovation, people who work in enterprises have paid more and more attention to creativity. It is known that the innovation in cooperation enterprises come from the creativity among their partners. However, in practice, enterprises which involve in cooperative innovation may not be able to achieve more cooperation creativity than the overall sum of the creativity of individual enterprise. Many papers paid much attention to the impact of the individual and team creativity, but lack of thinking of the effect of the unique attrib utes and the in-depth law of the creativity at the enterprises level among cooperative enterprises. In addition, the impacts of the mechanism and process of cooperation creativity in cooperative enterprises have been paid little attention. So the paper foc us on the analysis of the mechanism of how innovation network of cooperative enterprise impact the cooperation creativity and reveal the inherent mechanism of how to enhance the cooperation creativity in cooperative enterprise.First of all, based on the review and conclusion of previous literature, the paper analyzes the concept and the measuring, as well as the impact factors of the creativity, and then defines the connotations and characteristics of creativity in enterprises. Secondly, combining with interview study, the paper verified the idea of cooperation creativity as well as an analysis of the construct of creativity. Thirdly, beginning with the features of innovation network, the paper explores the relationship and effection between the innovation network and cooperation creativity of cooperative enterprises, and make verification on them based on case study. Lastly, the paper makes an analysis on the shared vision, as well as interactive and absorptive capacity of the cooperative innovation enterp rises. After that, it explores how shared vision and interaction have intermediary effect on enhancing the cooperation creativity and the buffer effect of absorptive capacity between interaction and cooperation creativity. The paper also makes an empirical testing on the model according to the survey data.Through interviews, case studies and questionnaire method researches, the paper sums up the following conclusions:(1) Innovation network is an important prerequisite to achieve and promote the cooperatio n creativity in cooperative enterprises. The reciprocal has most impact on cooperation creativity in innovation network. Long-term, sustained and stable ties between organizations make enterprise mutual trust each other and are willing to share knowledge, innovation and cooperate with each other and produce cooperation creativity. however, the dynamic feature of innovation network does not have significant effect on cooperation creativity.(2) By intermediary effectiveness analysis, it comes out that though part of intermediary of shared vision, the innovation network has impact in interaction. And through total intermediary of interaction, the innovation network has impact on cooperation creativity. So it is clear that there is a cause-effect among “Innovation Network – shared vision – interaction – cooperation creativity”.(3) There is a buffer effect on cooperation creativity between knowledge of the absorptive capacity and interaction in enterprises. Through interaction analysis, the more the enterprises absorb the knowledge, the more effect of cooperation creativity will be highlighted which is produced by interaction.(4) The paper extracts three dimensions that construct cooperation creativity which is creativity, innovation and productivity. By interview with key persons in enterprises, the survey data has been collected to measure and verify the three dimensions of cooperation creativity by the methods of SPSS factors analysis and SEM analysis.