非研发创新:被忽视的中小企业创新另一面

Non-R&D Innovation: The Neglected Side of Innovation in SMEs

传统创新研究把研发(R&D)视为企业创新的主要途径,甚至是唯一途径,这在很大程度上忽视了广大中小企业所进行的一些并非基于研发的多样化创新活动。事实上,越来越多的学术研究与企业创新实践表明:研发并非中小企业创新活动主要和唯一的方式,不进行研发也可以创新并取得很好的创新绩效。在国内外研究基础上,对非研发(non-R&D)创新内涵进行了界定,并初步总结出四种典型的非研发创新模式。最后,通过天语手机案例加以初步验证。研究认为,非研发创新是我国大量不具备正式研发机构和研发能力的中小企业低成本、有效的创新途径,但却被学术界、产业界和政府创新政策长期所忽视。

For a long time, the academia and industry largely equated innovation with R＆D, and almost regarded R＆D as the only way for innovation, which to a large extent ignored the particular innovation activities in SMEs whose R＆D capabilities were generally very weak. In fact, a growing number of international researches and enterprise practices have shown that, R＆D is not the main or only way for SMEs to innovate. For example, the EU innovation survey in recent years found that, more than half of SMEs with product or process innovation, did not carried on formal R＆D activities, which were very different with the traditional understanding of the technological innovation. Based on literature review, this paper redefined the concepts of non-R＆D innovation activities, and summarized several typical non-R＆D innovation modes in Chinese SMEs. Finally, this paper verified the non-R＆D innovation modes based on the K-touch phone＇s innovation case.