| With the era of knowledge economy is coming, knowledge as an important asset separate from labor, and the intellectual capital receive more and more attention in business operation. Intellectual capital becomes the source for developing of the enterprises, and it especially as the enterprises engine in the independent innovation. In the high-tech enterprises, the intellectual capital playing a key role in the process of improving core competitiveness. The automobile industry involves machinery, electronics, metallurgy, chemical industry, light-industry, and many other industries. A car is a high-tech product, composing with more than 10,000 parts. Chinese vehicle manufacturers have already made a remarkable achievement, but it's far from the auto manufacturing powerful country. The reason for this is that although Chinese auto industry output is large, but both of the modern Motor research and development capacity and the ancillary components capacity have a big gap between the international levels. So far, China has not developed a real independent brand which is moving toward the world. Major auto industry can be broken down into two major series passenger cars and commercial automobiles. China's auto industry in the ability of independent innovation lower today, the Commercial Vehicle business has maintained a good record of innovation. To FT Automotive Company limited as the representative of China's commercial automobile business, the ability of independent innovation is in a situation unique in the doldrums. This article from the knowledge capital and independent innovation theory, the FT through the empirical analysis, intellectual capital from the point of view of the enterprise capability of independent innovation, China's commercial automobile for the car provide a valuable reference. |