Qingrui Xu

Total innovation management paradigm for firm innovation system

This paper gives a point that Chinas large scale enterprises firm innovation system is R&D system, rather than innovation system. Institutional reasons are discussed and we also find some other problems existed, such as weakness in driving forces & mechanisms, weak innovation capability & core competence, bureaucratic culture embarrassment, low level collaborative innovation networks. Based on the problems, we introduce a Total Innovation Management Paradigm to give some advices on the firm innovation system of Chinas large scale enterprise. Firstly, a suggested incentive five driving forces model is introduced. Secondly, the way to leverage innovation capabilities and the way from secondary innovation to original innovation is discussed.

Strategic schema, strategic flexibility and technological innovation capability: A moderating role of environmental dynamism

This paper examine the moderating effect of environmental dynamism on the relationship between strategic schema, strategic flexibility and technological innovation capability. We employ the key property of strategic schema: complexity. Using a sample of 379 firms, we show that the pattern of relationships among the theoretical constructs is different in fast- and slow-changing environment. The results suggest that complexity of strategic schema promotes technological innovation capability via strategic flexibility, especially in fast changing environment.

The 5 waves of indigenous innovation in China

Based on the theory of National Innovation System (NIS), the development history of Chinas indigenous innovation is separated into five stages from 1949 to 2011. In-depth analysis is taken to explore the international and political environment, innovation resources and participants of innovation activities. And then several basic elements for indigenous innovation are extracted. These basic factors include emancipating the mind, meeting local market need and cooperating between industries, universities, and research institutes. Emancipating the mind is the prerequisite of indigenous innovation; meeting the domestic market needs are the start points of indigenous innovation; and the synergy between different actors of NIS is the major driven force. And above all, the cultivation of indigenous innovation capability is an incremental process.

A research on the mechanism of leveraging innovation capabilities via entrepreneurs in SMEs

Entrepreneurs as the most important drivers, determine the whole enterprises innovation capabilities in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Existing literatures concerned the relationship between innovation capabilities and entrepreneurs, consistently emphasize the important role of entrepreneurs; yet they do not clarify the question of “how”—how entrepreneurs leverage the innovation capabilities. However, the answer of “how” has more practical significance than just expounding the important role of entrepreneurs in enhancing innovation capabilities. In this article, two paths by which entrepreneurs leverage innovation capabilities are explored. One is direct; referring that entrepreneur should strengthen himself. The other is a relatively indirect one, nurturing employees to leverage the whole enterprises innovation capabilities. A case study of the innovation capability development at UPG, a small financial service company in Zhejiang Province, found the mechanism how entrepreneurs leverage innovation capabilities.

How technology search facilitate technological innovation capability reconfiguration: Empirical study under emerging economy

The reconfiguration of technological innovation capability is an emergency issue for emerging economy. However, the “complementary or substitution” argument about the relationship among search strategies existed in recent studies, which hinders the reconfiguration of technological innovation capability. Thus, based on data from 253 high-tech enterprises, this paper employed cluster analysis and multi-logistic regression method to study the relationship between technology search and types of technological innovation capability during its reconfiguration process. There are several important results. Firstly, there are two dominant types of technological innovation capability during each stage of capability reconfiguration: a) knowledge assimilation capability; b) knowledge assimilation and creation capability. Secondly, there are different technology search facilitate each type of technological innovation capability during its reconfiguration: a)compared to other search strategy, the synergy between external boundary spanning search and internal boundary spanning search strategy, more easily lead to knowledge assimilation capability(compared to other capability structure types); b)compared to other knowledge search strategy, external boundary spanning search is more likely to result in knowledge assimilation and creation capability (compared to other types of capability structure types). This paper not only contributes dynamic capability and capability reconfiguration perspectives, but also has managerial implications.

Accumulation and innovation in a capability leveraging perspective: Review of theories and evidence

Accumulation and innovation are two hottest topics in the field of technological innovation management because they both make contribute to competitive advantage for firms. This article intends to explore a new term of accumulation law to describe the mechanism that how accumulation of funds, knowledge and talents influence innovation capability. The authors give a law by comparing and combing two related theory, resource orchestration and total innovation management with three laws. These laws enable a more precise understanding of total innovation management within resource-based theory. Then a case study is given to test these laws.

Study on strategic schema of smart cities

There are more and more challenges in development of todays cities. Developing an intelligent, inclusive and sustainable city is the way to go in the future. On the other hand, information technology, knowledge management, innovative networks are shaping the face of our world, which makes our cities more knowledge intensive and innovation-driven. The strategic schema of smart cities on the aspect of functions, namely science and technology strategy, economic strategy, talent and education strategy, culture strategy, managerial strategy, ecology/environment strategy, and the competitive strategy were discussed. Finally, the importance of strategic schema as well as the relationship between the smart city and the innovative city was discussed in brief.

To explore innovation synergy rule & its effectiveness by SD modeling in portfolio perspective — Study on innovation capacity evolution rule

The current business context is more and more characterized by innovation capability as a key factor to boost firms competiveness. Chinese firms are devoting its actions to develop science and technology to innovate their success. Inspired by synergetics and portfolio innovation, we propose that innovation synergy is an important means to reconfigure competencies and reduce the resource deficiency in order to exploit competitive advantage and success. System dynamics is an insightful approach to the problem structuring to investigate and illuminate the synergy effectiveness of innovation. We establish a SD model of a new venture in China to explore the synergy effect from the interaction of different innovation elements. Results show that as technology market, culture, and process innovation input increase, firm could fully exploit the benefits of innovation synergy and favor its growth and success.

The rule and mechanism of innovation capability-environmental dynamism coevolution: A longitude case study of Chinese firm in transition

How did enterprise innovation capability convolutes with external environment in the context of economic transition? In this paper, a longitude study is operated, using the case of Sunyard, to show the rule as well as the mechanism underlying the coevolution process. On the one hand, this paper reveals how enterprise adapt to the environment to pursue resources for product innovation under multi-institutional pressure; on the other hand, this paper reveals how companies leverage innovation capability through organizational learning and then select and manage the environment. More importantly, this paper links these two aspects, and reveals the ambidexterity mechanism between selection and adaptation. Theoretically, this finding not only unique to China, but also can be found in other developing countries with under transition.

Total Innovation Management competence and innovation performance in SMEs. —An empirical study based on SME survey in Zhejiang Province

Total innovation management (TIM), innovation competence and performance in SMEs are discussed in this paper. After brief introduction of TIM, this paper analyzes the key innovation management capabilities including strategy innovation capability, technological innovation capability, and marketing innovation capability, etc, which influence firm¿s performance greatly. Based on over more than 200 SMEs survey in Zhejiang Province and 2 case study, this paper shows that the innovation performance in SMEs is affected by Total Innovation Management competence. Then relevant policies and recommendations are presented.