The Impact Of Building The Corporate Culture On SMEs' Innovation Capability

Nowadays, the small & medium-sized enterprises have already become a hot topic all over the world. SMEs become a more important motive force and a stronger engine to the economic and social development in the world. But in the meantime, also because of their unique characteristics, small & medium-sized enterprises have been shown as a"short-lived " fate. There are a lot of reasons that account for this kind of laggard state, but the most important one is the lack of innovation capability. As we all known, most of the SMEs are in a small size, with a small amount of capital and less staff, so they have to keep innovating constantly to fresh themselves. Only in this way, they can always maintain their competitiveness to take the global challenge and seize the opportunities. As long as a SME always takes its innovation capability into account, it will be very competitive in the market competition. So to the SMEs, innovation is not just an optional accessory, but the air and water to make them survive.Innovations are often thought of in terms of technical achievement, but they can also be achieved in the spirit level. Since the innovation is so important to the SMEs, what should they do to enhance their innovation capability? The key solution is building an innovation-supportive corporate culture. Until now many SMEs still haven't realized the importance of corporate culture. Corporate culture plays a very important role in the growth and development of a SME, especially in inspiring its innovation capability. The author refers to many related books and articles, and conducts some surveys in some SMEs, listening to their ideas about corporate innovation and corporate culture building. Therefore, this paper aims to indicating the relationship between the corporate culture and innovation capability in the SMEs, exploring the reasons blocking SMEs'innovation capability improving from the corporate culture aspect and putting forward some suggestions about how to enhance the SME's innovation capability through building a suitable innovation-supportive corporate culture strategically which will finally make SMEs more and more successful.