| Under the background of economic knowledgeable and globalization, innovation is this time’s most notable feature and regional economic development is bound to rely on regional innovation. In the regional innovation system, enterprise is the key of technological innovation into economic growth. Innovation performance of enterprises will directly affect the ability to enhance regional innovation. And medium-sized industrial enterprises are the backbone of the development of China’s industrial enterprises. Among previous studies, many scholars have a more in-depth study on regional innovation and development, while many interdisciplinary field theories have also been introduced to explain the reasons for the imbalance of regional development, such as Western regional economic intervention theory dependency theory, the center-edge theory and so on. More recent research have been focused on enterprise interacting with the outside world in the regional innovation system, especially some research have been paying great attention on the impaction from the behavioral agent which across the industries and regions. Therefore, this paper will further expand the research boundaries of regional innovation, and it still will explore the mechanism of how external technology acquisition and R & D capabilities influence the regional innovation performance.This paper focuses on the basic problem of how "external technology acquisition, R&D capabilities influence the regional innovation performance". Specially, this paper will research on the following questions. Firstly, how external technology acquisitions influence the regional innovation performance? Secondly, how R&D capabilities influence the regional innovation performance? Thirdly, how R&D capabilities moderate the relationship between external technology acquisition and regional innovation performance?This paper uses previous theoretical and empirical research. First of all, this article put forward the research hypotheses through literature study and logical deduction, and the theoretical framework will be constructed on the basic of these research hypotheses. Then, this paper choose the samples from large-and medium-industry enterprise of 28 Provinces of China, many frontier and classic research method in economics management will be used to test the theoretical framework such as Multiple Regression Model.Through the above research, some conclusions are discovered as follows:Firstly, external technology acquisition is the determining factor in relation to the regional innovation performance.External technology acquisition impact on regional innovation performance.On the basis of the theoretical literature review and the theoretical framework, this study empirical analysis external technology acquisition and regional innovation performance by large- and medium- industry enterprise of 28 provinces of our country.Studies have shown that introduction of foreign technology expenditures and purchase inverted expenditures have U-shaped relationship with new product sales revenue and number of patent applications. There is an optimal point between external technology acquisition and regional innovation performance. This conclusion provides reference of external technology acquisition for companies.Secondly, R&D capability has an important impact on regional innovation performance.R&D capability has significant positively impact on innovation performance. The degree of R&D capability impacts on regional innovation performance. R&D expenditure and R&D staff of full-time equivalent number have significant positively impact on new product sales revenue and number of patent applications. Therefore, regional innovation performance improves with the improvement of R&D capability.Thirdly, R&D capability significantly moderates the relationship between external technology acquisition and regional innovation performance.This part of the study focused on the moderation effect of R&D expenditure and R&D personnel full-time equivalents between the introductive of foreign technology expenditure, purchase of domestic technology expenditures and new product sales revenue and the number of patent applications. The empirical results show that R&D capabilities positively moderate the inverted U-shaped relationship between external technology acquisition and regional innovation performance. R&D expenditures significant negatively moderate the relationships between foreign technology expenditure, expenditure on the purchase of domestic technology and new product sales revenue, the number of patent applications, R&D personnel full-time equivalents significant positively moderate the relationships between foreign technology expenditure, expenditure on the purchase of domestic technology and new product sales revenue, the number of patent applications.Based on the above research, the results deepen our understanding of the basic problem of "external technology acquisition, R&D capabilities influence the regional innovation performance", and this paper have made a tiny contribute to the theory development and further research. On the one hand, this paper research on the promotion path of regional innovation performance from the perspective of two dimensions of external technology, and it further expand the research boundary of the regional development. This paper also helps us understand the R&D capabilities, and further analyze it from various perspectives systematically studied the link between R&D capabilities and regional innovation performance, it is conducive to a better understanding of regional innovation capability mechanisms of R&D capabilities, and it has some positive effects to enrich the theory. On the other hand, this research breakthroughs the defect of localization and globalization, explores new paths and ways of regional innovation development from a more broad perspective, provides a reference framework for the development of regional innovation strategies for enterprises around the world and our country. |
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