Research on the relationship of institutional innovation, organizational learning and synergistic effect: An empirical study of Chinese university spin-offs
Journal Name:
- Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
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Abstract (2. Language):
Purpose: 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. 