Abstract
This paper discusses the evolution track and micro-mechanism of LCFs’ technological innovation capability from the perspective of integration of “Innovation Strategy-Innovation Paradigm-technological Innovation capability(SPT)”. It makes an longitudinal exploratory case of Huawei Company from 1987 to 2018. In this paper, it is found that: first, Huawei’s evolution of technological innovation capability is “Imitation Innovation capability-Primary Secondary Innovation capability - Ripe Secondary Innovation capability - Integrated Innovation capability - Original Innovation capability”. Technology innovation capability can be measured from three dimensions of technical distance, technical efficiency and technical reserves. Second, absorptive capability is the intermediate variable between the interaction of innovation strategy and technological innovation capability. Third, the driving mechanism, regulating mechanism and catalytic mechanism among the integrated evolution model in SPT of LCFs’ are respectively the Knowledge Cycle Mechanism, Knowledge Diversity and Dissipative Structure Theory. The theoretical contribution of this paper is as follows: it provides a new theoretical perspective for the follow-up research, and also provides a theoretical reference for the existing LCFs to get out of the bottleneck of development.
Highlights
Latecomer Firms(LCFs) is an independent concept different from Late Entrant and Start-up (Mathews & Cho, 1999)
Chen Litian(2012) carried out rich research on the evolution path of technological innovation capability, and deduced the path of technological innovation capability in combination of absorption, integration and original innovation capability; Liu Haibing&Xu QingRui(2018) creatively constructed an integrated theoretical model based on the relationship between strategy, innovation and ability, and emphasized the leading role of strategy in the process of innovation paradigm and ability evolution of latecomer enterprises
In the stage of innovation strategy of high market exploitative and low technology exploitative, Huawei has a low level of technology reserve, but its technical efficiency ability is not obvious
Summary
Latecomer Firms(LCFs) is an independent concept different from Late Entrant and Start-up (Mathews & Cho, 1999). How to establish an efficient catchup mode, break the existing technological shackles, and realize "beyond-catch-up" is becoming an urgent problem to be solved in the latecomer firms of our country. The research on the catch-up of latecomer firms has become very rich, focusing on the Technology Learning path of catching up in latecomer firms, influencing factors of innovation performance of latecomer enterprises under the situation of catching up, Catch-up Strategy of latecomer firms. Chen Litian(2012) carried out rich research on the evolution path of technological innovation capability, and deduced the path of technological innovation capability in combination of absorption, integration and original innovation capability; Liu Haibing&Xu QingRui(2018) creatively constructed an integrated theoretical model based on the relationship between strategy, innovation and ability, and emphasized the leading role of strategy in the process of innovation paradigm and ability evolution of latecomer enterprises The research on the catch-up of latecomer firms has become very rich, focusing on the Technology Learning path of catching up in latecomer firms, influencing factors of innovation performance of latecomer enterprises under the situation of catching up, Catch-up Strategy of latecomer firms. Chen Litian(2012) carried out rich research on the evolution path of technological innovation capability, and deduced the path of technological innovation capability in combination of absorption, integration and original innovation capability; Liu Haibing&Xu QingRui(2018) creatively constructed an integrated theoretical model based on the relationship between strategy, innovation and ability, and emphasized the leading role of strategy in the process of innovation paradigm and ability evolution of latecomer enterprises
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