TITLE:
Network Position, Technological Distance and Firm’s Cooperation Innovation
AUTHORS:
Jiayu Chi, Ling Sun
KEYWORDS:
Network Position, Technological Distance, Cooperation Innovation
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.8 No.11,
November
22,
2018
ABSTRACT: This paper studied the
joint effects of network position and technological distance on firm’s cooperation innovation based on the data of firm’s patent cooperation
from 2003-2013 in the electronic information, electric power and equipment
manufacturing industry. Results show that both network centrality and structure
holes have a significant positive impact on the firm’s cooperation innovation
output; technological distance and cooperative innovation performance have an
inverted u-shaped relationship; the interaction of network centrality and
technological distance negatively regulates the cooperative innovation
performance; the interaction of technological distance and structure holes can
promote cooperative innovation performance.