Effect Of External Relationship On Innovation Performance Of Small And Micro Enterprises

Innovation is one of the "two engines" of China's economic development.Small and micro businesses play an important role in creating jobs,invigorating the economic market,improving people's livelihood and promoting economic restructuring.However,compared with large and medium-sized enterprises,small and micro enterprises are weak in capital,technology,risk prevention and resistance,innovation achievements transformation and other aspects,and it is difficult to balance the cost and risk of innovation,which seriously inhibits the enthusiasm of small and micro enterprises in innovation and the improvement of innovation performance.Therefore,how to improve the innovation performance of small and micro enterprises to survive and develop in the fierce market competition is of great significance.There have been researches on the innovation performance of small and micro enterprises,only from the perspective of external relations or internal capabilities to focus on its impact on the innovation performance of small and micro enterprises from a single perspective.Few literatures have included external relations,internal capabilities and innovation performance in the same research framework.However,external relationship and internal capability are the external and internal factors that affect the innovation performance of small and micro enterprises respectively.The external cause can only function through the internal cause of internal ability.Therefore,in order to make up for the deficiencies of existing researches,this paper will discuss how external relations affect the innovation performance of small and micro enterprises through the intermediary role of internal capabilities,and further open the "black box" of external relations affecting the innovation of small and micro enterprises,so as to expand and enrich the existing research on innovation of small and micro enterprises.For this reason,this article is based on China small micro enterprise survey data in 2015,the first building "external relations,internal ability,and innovation performance theory frame model,with 2381 small micro enterprises as samples,the empirical analysis how external relationships by learning ability,absorption ability,technical skills,research and development ability,entrepreneurial orientation,etc,the internal ability to influence the small micro enterprise innovation performance.The results show that: The external relationship of small and micro enterprises not only directly promotes the innovation performance of enterprises,but also indirectly improves the innovation performance of enterprises by influencing the internal ability.The internal capability of enterprises is the mediating variable of "external relation-enterprise innovation performance".The research conclusion provides reference for improving the innovation management practice of small and micro enterprises and formulating relevant innovation policies of small and micro enterprises.