The Influence of Openness to Innovation Performance in Chinese Firms

摘要：

Open innovation can speed innovation; reduce the uncertainty of technology and market. It could also provide access to more ideas than could be developed inhouse. By leveraging the discoveries of others, companies can produce spectacular results. Too open will bring negative impacts also because of the costs for searching and the leakage of key technology. This paper empirically verifies the relationship between the degree of openness and the innovation performance. We find that the more open in the innovation process, the higher innovation performance would be. This paper finds that the negative impact is insignificant. It is because the degree of openness is not enough for Chinese firms. The ability of using and integrating external knowledge is crucial for Chinese firms to improve the technological innovation capability.

关键词： Open Innovation Openness Innovation Performance

作者: CHEN Jin CHEN Yufen

作者单位: School of Public Administration, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China School of statistics and mathematics, Zhejiang Gongshang University Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Fifth InternationalSymposium on Management of Technology(ISMOT07)(第五届技术与创新管理国际研讨会)

会议地点: 杭州

会议语种:英文

页码: 249-253

在线出版日期: 2007-06-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）