Human Capital and Innovation Ability in Medical Education: An Empirical Study

Abstract

In such a rapidly changing era, technologies are faster than those in the past. To cope with environmental changes and rising consumer knowledge, the business environment in medical industry is facing violent changes, and high competition appears in medical industry. Medical industry has to strive for sustainable management or promote the competitiveness. Aiming at a hospital in Shanghai city, the managerial level, physicians, and employees in the primary hospital of School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, are distributed 300 copies of questionnaire. Total 238 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 79%. The research results conclude the positive relations between 1.organizational learning and human capital, 2.human capital and innovation ability, and 3.organizational learning and innovation ability. According to the results, suggestions are eventually proposed, expecting to assist domestic medical industry in promoting the organization innovation ability.