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The Effect of Dual Network Embeddedness on Enterprise Innovation Performance |
Hou Renyong,Yan Qing,Sun Qian,Li Depeng,Zhu Baoji |
(Management School, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China) |
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Abstract Enterprises are ultimate undertakers and elementary units of social economy, and enhancing the innovation performance of enterprises is the prerequisite and guarantee for realizing Chinese economy innovation-driven development. Embedded innovation becomes a new innovation paradigm. Firms' innovation activities are influenced by both knowledge elements in the knowledge network and partners in the collaborative network. This paper explores the influence of knowledge network embeddedness and collaboration network embeddedness on enterprise innovation performance from network structure perspective, and builds up the knowledge network and collaborative network of biological medicine field in Wuhan East Lake high-tech zone by network visualization technology to analyze the impact of centrality and structure hole on enterprise innovation performance. Results show that: ① It has an inverted U-shaped relationship between enterprise innovation performance and centrality in knowledge network, while innovation performance and structural holes present a positive correlation;②enterprise innovation performance is positively related to centrality in collaborative network, while there's no significant relationship between innovation performance and the degree of structural holes;③knowledge network and collaborative network has no correlation. Finally, some suggestions is put forward from network embeddedness and network structure perspectives.
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Received: 20 September 2018
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