Abstract:

What is the relationship of collaborative innovation between Chinese enterprises and innovation entities in the innovation chain, such as industry-university-research, suppliers or the government, on their innovation performance? What are the differences in the impact of different innovation structures and connection modes adopted by Chinese enterprises on their innovation performance? Regarding these questions, there are theoretical disputes in the existing research. From the perspective of innovation chain, this paper conducts a meta-analysis of 37,257 independent samples from 93 studies. It is found that the collaboration between enterprise and industry-university-research is moderately positively related to innovation performance. The connection between enterprises and subjects of the supply chain is moderately positively related to innovation performance, while the connection between enterprises and the government has a low degree of positive correlation with innovation performance. The structure mode enterprises adopt point-to-point and network and the connection means to cooperation are moderately positively related to innovation performance, while the structure mode of transaction is positively related to innovation performance. This paper provides practical certain implications on enterprise innovation, the enact of national innovation system, and fusion on innovation chain and industrial chain. 

Key words: innovation chain, innovation performance, absorptive capacity, meta-analysis

摘要：

我国企业与创新链上的产学研、供应商或政府等创新主体协同创新如何影响创新绩效？我国企业建立不同的创新结构、采取不同的连接方式对其创新绩效的影响存在哪些差异？关于上述问题，现有研究尚未得到一致性的结论。以创新链理论为研究视角，对来自93项研究的37 257个独立样本进行元分析。研究发现：企业连接产学研、供应链这两类主体与创新绩效是中度正相关，而企业连接政府与创新绩效是低度正相关；企业采取点对点和网络的结构方式及合作的连接方式与创新绩效是中度正相关，而采用交易的连接方式与创新绩效是低度正相关。区域和行业调节企业连接创新主体与创新绩效之间的关系，以及企业行动与创新绩效之间的关系。本研究对企业创新、国家创新体系的发展路径及创新链与产业链的融合有一定的实践启示。

关键词: 创新链, 创新绩效, 吸收能力, 元分析