Knowledge Sources and Manufacturing Enterprise’s Technological Innovation

Abstract

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">This paper uses the questionnaire data of the World Bank</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">’</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">s China Enterprise Survey 2012 to establish a Logit model to empirically study the relationship between knowledge sources and technological innovation in Chinese manufacturing enterprises. The results show that although internal and external knowledge has a positive effect on enterprise technological innovation in general, there are significant differences when taking the types of innovation, subject characteristic and the types of cooperation into consideration. </span>From the current development stage of China's manufacturing enterprises, external knowledge sources, external enterprise knowledge subjects, and employee knowledge have a more positive effect on technological innovation, which also shows that the role of technical employees on technological innovation has a significant threshold effect, and only after a certain degree of accumulation can internal technical employees have a more significant positive effect on technological innovation.</p>