产品关联密度、吸收能力与中国企业创新

Product Density,Absorptive Capacity and Innovation of Chinese Enterprises

随着国内外市场竞争的加剧和技术更新换代的加快,企业创新的关键环节转变为如何有效获取和利用外部的知识和技术,实现与自身内部资源的整合,并强化自身的研发能力。本文基于产品空间理论视角研究产品关联密度对中国企业创新的影响及吸收能力对两者关系的调节效应。研究发现:第一,不同地理范围内产品关联密度对中国企业创新均产生了显著的正向影响,其中省内产品关联密度对企业创新的促进作用更大;第二,企业的吸收能力有助于企业利用不同地理范围内的知识溢出和资源禀赋的优势,增进自身的创新能力;第三,不同地理范围内产品关联所带来的知识溢出有助于提高我国企业的创新绩效,但过高的产品关联密度也可能对企业创新产生负效应。

With the intensification of domestic and foreign market competition and the acceleration of technological upgrading,the key link of enterprise innovation has changed to how to effectively acquire and use external knowledge and technology,realize the integration with its own internal resources,and strengthen its own research and development capabilities. The impact of product density on the innovation of Chinese enterprises and the moderating effect of absorptive capacity on the relationship are studied from the perspective of product space theory. The results shows as follows. First of all,Chinese firm innovation is significantly positively affected by product association density in different geographical ranges,and the provincial product association density plays a greater role in promoting firm innovation. Secondly,the improvement of an enterprise’s innovation ability is subject to its absorptive capacity,and whether an enterprise can take advantage of knowledge spillover and resource endowment in different geographical scopes is also affected by its absorptive capacity. Thirdly,the innovation performance of Chinese firms benefits from knowledge spillover caused by product association in different geographical scopes,but high product association density may also have a negative effect on firm innovation.