Global Innovation Network Embeddedness,Innovation Ability And Enterprise Knowledge Diffusion

In the context of open innovation,innovative ideas and knowledge can flow freely.Knowledge diffusion refers to knowledge sharing,interaction and exchange,that is,the process of knowledge transfer or spillover from producers(knowledge sources)to users(knowledge receivers).It not only plays an important role in external enterprises’ innovation and regional economic development but also brings important value to the original enterprises.Enterprises can use conscious and strategic knowledge outflow and unconscious knowledge spillover processes to obtain economic and non-economic benefits,which is significant to guide enterprises’ outbound open innovation practices comprehensively.Therefore,It is particularly important to clarify the factors affecting knowledge diffusion and the mechanism of factors.Based on resource-based theory and social network theory,this paper mainly focuses on the relationship between the state and behaviour characteristics of enterprises in the global innovation network and knowledge diffusion in the open innovation environment,and constructs a theoretical framework of research on the relationship between enterprise network embeddedness,innovation ability,network experience and knowledge diffusion.This paper mainly explores the impact of network embeddedness on knowledge diffusion,the mediating role of innovation ability,and how network experience moderates the impact of different network embeddedness on enterprise innovation ability and knowledge diffusion.Given the theoretical research framework,this paper takes the new energy vehicle industry as the research sample,uses the Derwent Innovation Index database as the patent data source to retrieve the patent cooperation and citation data from 2001 to 2020,and uses the patentometrics to measure the variables.Then,this paper uses Ucinet software to analyze the network characteristics of the global innovation network of enterprises in the new energy vehicle industry at different time stages and applies the negative binomial model and robustness test to carry out the empirical test.The research results show that: Both structural embeddedness and relational embeddedness have positive impacts on enterprise knowledge diffusion,and structural embeddedness and relational embeddedness also have positive impacts on enterprise innovation ability;The research reveals the partial mediating effect of innovation ability between network embeddedness and knowledge diffusion;The study further introduces network experience and finds that network experience reduces the positive impact of structural embeddedness and relational embeddedness on knowledge diffusion but has no significant moderating effect on the positive impact of structural embeddedness and relational embeddedness on innovation ability.The results of this study contribute to theoretical research on knowledge diffusion and provide theoretical support for organizations to formulate outbound open innovation strategies.