Abstract Consider effect of cooperation relationship characteristics on cooperative innovation performance, existing studies are limited in single perspective of social network. Little know about how dose networklevels relationship characteristics "ties strength" influences cooperative innovation mode through the bilaterallevels characteristics "relationship quality".Combined with social networks, social capital and knowledge transfer theory, it analyzes the relationship among ties strength, interfirm trust and different types of technology innovation mode. It collects a random sample of 327 manufacturing and high technology enterprises located in many provinces in China, uses SEM testing method to test hypotheses. The results indicates that: compared with the economic based trust, strong ties bring more positive effect on emotion based trust; the effect of emotion based trust on incremental innovation is significant positive, and economical based trust is much fit for radical innovation; the effect of the strong ties on incremental innovation mediated by emotional trust, and the effect of strong ties on the radical innovation is transferred through economical trust.
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