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| Antecedents of Technology Alliance Collaborative Innovation |
| Dai Shengli,Li Yingchun,Zhang Wei |
| (College of Public Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China) |
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Abstract At present, strengthening scientific and technological innovation has become a major development strategy of all countries around the world, and construct technological innovation alliance has gradually become the trend of technological innovation. Due to the long R&D period, the huge capital investment, and the complex process, the technological innovation of enterprise should depend on the alliance. In this study, we adopt grounded theory to reveal antecedents of collaborative innovation by construct an integrative conceptual framework of the alliance. Our findings show that resource input is an important prerequisite for achieving collaborative innovation, cooperative motivation is the internal driving force to promote the construction of technology alliance, and organizational environment is the basic requirement for implementing innovation cooperation, the collaborative process of technological innovation is the important supporting factor of the alliance operation. As for the mechanism of technology alliance, the collaborative process partly plays a role of bridge, and the resource input as well as organizational environment factor play the moderating role.
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Received: 05 May 2019
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