A Study On Relations Between Network Capability,Network Location And Innovation Performance

In the open innovation model, companies continue to innovate and to achieve the goal of creating a competitive advantage is inseparable from access to external innovation resources. As the important carrier of open innovation mode, the characteristics of innovation network and its impact on innovation performance is increasingly become the focus of the related research area. Existing research emphasizes the influence of the network resources on innovation activities, and few study the network innovation implementation mechanism with network resources acquisition. Now, in the few contributions of network resources acquisition and innovation implementation mechanisms research, network capacity and network location become the most involved keywords. However, most studies did not combine the two of them, but respectively explore the relationship with network innovation performance. In addition, few studies investigate the influence factors of network resource utilization efficiency from enterprise perspective in the innovation network. Based on this, starting from the characteristics of innovation networks, building a structural equation model and combining the theory of social network analysis, this study empirical analyzed the promotion of network capability to build enterprise network location advantage, revealing the influence of network capability and advantageous network location to network resources acquisition and the mechanism of promoting innovation performance. Research shows that enterprise network capability has direct impact on network resources acquisition in network relationship management and network task execution activities, advantageous network location has significant positive influence on innovation performance. Based on the micro perspective of innovation network, this study finds that enterprise innovation accumulation and expectations have signiflcantregulating effect in innovation network the mechanism.Based on this, this paper use the method of questionnaire survey, this study issued and collected178valid questionnaires companies of Dalian Bonded automobile industry cluster, and through exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to examine the collected data, and build a structural equation model with network position as an intervening, innovative path as a regulated variable, use Amos software test the structural equation modeling to fitting, verify the relationship between network capability, network location and innovation performance, and the role of innovative path to enhance innovation performance. This study mainly draws the following conclusions:(1) A higher level of network capabilities in favor of gain an advantage network locations, indicating that the enterprise can effectively identify, establish and deal with the relationship between the other members of the network can improve its network status.(2) Networking capabilities have a significant positive impact on innovation performance upgrade, which shows the companies have the stronger networking capabilities can get more network resources for innovation activities.(3) Network locations have a significant positive impact on innovation performance upgrade, indicating that the network occupy a favorable position to promote access to network resources, and thus help to improve the innovation performance.(4) Network location plays a part in mediating role in the relationship between network capabilities and innovation performance, make an explanation for some considerable enterprise network capacity and there is a big difference in the level of innovation performance issues.(5) Innovation path plays a positive regulatory role in the relationship between network capabilities, network location and innovation performance, indicating companies have richer innovative experiences and more powerful innovation-driven, the role of enhancing innovation performance is more obvious.Based on the companies of Dalian Bonded auto industry cluster, this study used the theory of innovative network and the management theory on network capacity, network location. Finally, the study proposed same relevant policy to enhance the innovative performance in three levels of enterprises, intermediary structures and government, and pointed out the deficiencies in this study and the prospects for the future.