Research on the relationship of institutional innovation, organizational learning and synergistic effect: An empirical study of chineses university spin-offs
Abstract: At present, the Central
Government of China pays more attention to the synergistic innovation, and the
national strategy policy of “innovation driven development” are made to
implementations. Thus, the university plays an important role in the national
innovation system, so that how the university gets involved in innovative
activities becomes the primary problem of innovation strategy. This paper
utilizes Chinese university spin-offs survey data to identify the influence
process from institutional innovation and organizational learning to
synergistic effect of organization.
Design/methodology/approach: Firstly, we found that following the
procedural view, each one of these three elements can be divided into two
parts. Then, we established structural equation modeling with the connections
between these six subdivisions. Secondly, by taking 270 university Spin-offs in
China as samples, we verified the fit of the model through statistical data on
the questionnaire survey. Thirdly, we analyzed the relationship and influence
path of the institutional innovation, organizational learning and synergistic
effect.
Findings: The results of empirical research show that institutional
implementation process is positive correlation on both sides of synergistic
effect, and, the intermediary role is obvious that external organizational
learning played a regulatory role between institutional innovation synergistic
effects.
Research limitations/implications: A large-scale questionnaire survey
showed that the influence path of “institutions -organization-innovation
performance" are existed. Therefore, the system analysis framework should
be introduced to the emergence and development of University spin-offs, and
further explored the synergistic process of institutional change and
organizational evolution.
Practical implications: University spin-offs are a mode of university -
industry cooperation, and it takes participation in market competition also as
enterprise. This result of study pointed that. “Institutions” and
“organizations” are the two important factors in synergistic innovation, so the
synergy mechanism design should be followed by the interaction relationship
between these two above.
Originality/value: Synergistic innovation is the guidance theory which
leads the development trend of university-industrial cooperation in China. In
this paper, the "institution" and "organization", as the
two primary elements, are introduced to analyze the process of synergistic
innovation. Then, the authors discussed the role of the "institutional
innovation" and "organizational learning" in the process of
synergistic innovation, aimed at study on the operational mechanism of the
influence factors.
Keywords: institutional
innovation, organizational learning, synergistic effect, University Spin-offs
in China, SEM
Author: Zhang Hao, Ding
Yunlong
Journal Code: jptindustrigg140043
