Innovation Intention Research Articles

Digital and intelligent empowerment: Can big data capability drive green process innovation of manufacturing enterprises?

This research takes manufacturing enterprises with big data capability as the research object, based on organizational decision-making theory and planned behavior theory, the mediation effect model of “capability-intention-behavior” is constructed. It uses econometric models to explore the impact and conduction process of big data capability on green process innovation. The results show that big data capability have an obvious direct effect on green process innovation. By examining the mediation effect test, we find that green innovation intention partially mediates the relationship between big data capability and green process innovation. Then a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fs QCA) is used in this paper to analyze the causal complexity between big data capability and green process innovation, and to identify six effective configuration paths. According to the results, the synergy of big data acquisition capability, big data analysis capability and big data insight capability is crucial for high green process innovation, where big data insight capability plays a central role and big data acquisition capability or analysis capability and green innovation intention play a marginal role. According to the heterogeneity test, it is found that big data capability has stronger roles in the eastern region in China; green innovation intention has a stronger impact in the central and western regions in China. As enterprise-scale increases, the impact of big data capability on green process innovation increases and then declines, while the impact of green innovation intention on green process innovation continues to decline.

Knowledge Spillover at Trade Shows and Exhibitor Innovation

Extant research indicates that trade shows provide business organizations an important platform to obtain competitive information and improve new product development; yet, only a scarcity of research has examined the effect of knowledge spillovers at trade shows and its impacts on firms' innovations. This study examined the effect of trade show strategy on innovation intention and innovation capability directly and indirectly, through the mediation of knowledge spillover at trade shows; it also analyzed the effect of innovation intention on firms' innovation capability at fieldconfiguring events, such as major trade shows. The sample consisted of 443 exhibitors at the China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair. Findings revealed that exhibitors' trade show strategy directly affected their innovation capability, and knowledge spillover mediated the effect of trade show strategy on innovation intention, which exerted an impact on firms' innovation capability. This study indicates that, in addition to leveraging trade shows as marketing and sales venues for firms' products and services, trade shows can be used as a strategy for seeking new knowledge from competitor firms through knowledge spillover and for improving a firm's innovative ability; moreover, knowledge spillover at trade shows can affect a firm's innovation. The implication for firms participating in trade shows is to leverage the temporary clustering of people and products for the strategic purpose of knowledge acquisition and innovation.

Research on Product Innovation Intention Analysis System Model Based on Computational Thinking

The starting point of this study is to improve the realistic problem of high failure rate of product innovation and improve the success rate of product innovation. First, starting from the relationship between user demand and innovation, this study constructs a product innovation-demand screening system model from a macro perspective and describes the circular promotion relationship between demand and innovation. Second, apply computational thinking to further characterize the system model. From the point of view of mining frequent item sets, this paper constructs an analysis model of product innovation intention from a microscopic perspective and makes a correlation analysis of innovation and demand, providing technical support for the combination and screening of innovation and demand. The model runs in a Python environment. This study uses the Apriori algorithm to improve the efficiency of frequent set mining. This model has no specific restrictions on the selected users, the way to select demand data is broad, and the data are easy to obtain. The use of large amounts of data for analysis also reduces the bias of experts and leading users in evaluating and screening innovation intentions. The simulation of the operation and screening efficiency of the product innovation intention analysis model shows that (1) the model runs effectively. (2) The number of innovation intentions screened by the model can be regulated by adjusting only two variables: min_support and min_confidence. However, the number of strong association rules is more sensitive to the adjustment of min_support. (3) The innovation intention analysis model has significantly improved the efficiency of innovation intention screening. (4) Adjusting the innovation portfolio according to the analysis results of innovation intention can make new products more popular.

Does the Upgrading of Provincial Development Zones Improve the Cities’ Economic Efficiency? Evidence from a Quasi-experiment of Heterogeneous Development Zones

The expansion of China's development zones has already made significant contributions to economic development, as well as provided practical guidance for other developing countries to implement development zone practice. This paper analyzes how industry characteristics, high-technology zone hierarchy differences, regional differences, and openness differences affect the causal relationship between high-tech zones (HTZ) establishment and innovation of information service enterprises. The study constructs a complete empirical analysis framework with the help of the difference-indifference model (DID) and interaction term model. The empirical results show that, compared with the control group, HTZ establishes more innovation intentions and increases the innovation scale, thus significantly enhancing innovation levels. Compared with the non-high-tech zone sample, the HTZ has a significant positive effect on the innovation ability of technology service enterprises in the cities. Meanwhile, through a comparison of the regression results of different regions, it is found that the establishment of high-tech zones has the best effect on enterprise innovation ability in the eastern region, followed by the northeastern, central, and western regions. The following policy recommendations are proposed for optimizing the construction and management of high technology zones and promoting enterprise innovation development.

Social Entrepreneurship: An Ability for the Future Teachers

Creative thinking, identifying new solutions, taking risks, the proactive attitude, initiative, self-esteem, social and innovative intentions to contribute to societal well-being are competencies listed down in the Learning Compass (OECD, 2019a). Such abilities can be connected with social entrepreneurial competence. Meaningful constructs for the social entrepreneurial competence are: risk taking, self-esteem, personal creativity (Scale of Konakli & Göğüş, 2013), as well as personal traits, social characteristics, and characteristics of social initiative (Scale of Capella-Peris et al., 2019), scales used also in this article. The teachers, as role models for their students, have to demonstrate this competence in order to scaffold it effectively in their students’ minds. We aim to identify to what extent the students in educational sciences in Romania, who will become teachers, demonstrate abilities on this dimension during their BA initial teacher education. Thus, we investigated elements of social entrepreneurial competence in groups of students from Pedagogy, Pedagogy of Primary and Pre-school Education, and Special Needs Education. 509 respondents, students in the first and third year of the BA program, from nine public universities, answered the online questionnaire. The results of the study highlight possible correlations between risk taking and elements of personal creativity, or personal traits, but it could not identify statistically significant differences between the 1st and 3rd year students regarding social entrepreneurial competence. To identify to what extent the social entrepreneurial competence can be noticed at the level of the student teachers, represents a reference for possible curriculum revision of the academic offers.

Exploring the Impact of Individual and Social Antecedents on Teachers' Teaching Innovation: Perspective of Goal-Oriented Behavior and Social Identity.

Many scholars have investigated education management. Scholars in the education field have made significant achievements in contributing to multiple educational reform policies, while other scholars discuss teacher-related issues from the perspective of organizational behavior. The teaching innovation of high school teachers plays a critical role in students’ learning attitude and motivation, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers need to utilize more diversified teaching methods to enable students to carry out effective learning. In order to examine teachers’ teaching innovation, this study explores teaching innovation intentions and performance from the perspective of individual and social factors in combination with goal-oriented behavior and social identity theory. This study conducts questionnaires with a sample of Chinese coastal high school teachers, and obtains a total of 475 responses. The research results show that innovation attitude, positive anticipated emotion, group norms and social identity positively affect teachers’ teaching innovation intention; furthermore, teachers’ teaching innovation intention also positively affects their teaching innovation performance. Based on the comprehensive research findings, this research proposes corresponding theoretical and practical implications.

Research on the Initiative Scientific Research and Innovation Behavior of Postgraduates: Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior.

To clarify the generative mechanism and influencing factors of graduate students’ willingness and behavior of initiative scientific research and innovation, this research builds a quantitative model consisting of six variables: academic interest, regulatory pressure, conditions for improving scientific research and innovation capabilities, willingness to take initiative in scientific research and innovation, the promotion of achievements in scientific research, and initiative scientific research and innovation behavior. In total, 684 valid questionnaires were distributed and collected through WeChat Moments. Descriptive statistical analysis, reliability and validity analysis, factor analysis, path analysis, and conditioning analysis were conducted using the SPSS and structural equation model (SEM). The results showed that: (1) academic interest, regulatory pressure, and conditions for improving scientific research and innovation capabilities have a positive impact on the intention of initiative scientific research and innovation, but the impact of regulatory pressure is extremely insignificant. (2) The willingness to take initiative in scientific research and innovation has a positive and significant impact on initiative scientific research and innovation behavior, and the promotion of achievements in scientific research plays a negative moderating effect. Finally, this manuscript puts forward the suggestions on how to promote the initiative scientific research and innovation behavior of postgraduate students based on the research results.

Evaluation of the potential efficiency of an innovative product in the early phases

Outlines the main provisions and assumptions for measuring and evaluating the potential effectiveness of creating an innovative product; systematized methods for measuring and evaluating the effects of innovative intention by phases; objects of measurement, indicators and bases for comparing effects, as well as subjects of evaluation are considered; recommendations are given on the development of marketing tools in order to assess the economic feasibility of implementing innovation in the early phases.

The Psychological Motivations to Social Innovation and Transmitting Role of Social Worth.

Social innovation has a great chance to overcome problems in complex environments. Individuals’ concern for environmental, social, and ethical issues has gradually grown, prompting the rise of new types of consumers, who shift their environmental concerns into action. Social entrepreneurship participants mostly act as beneficiaries and initiators in the process of social innovation. Social exchange theory explains the linkage between individual psychological factors and personal social cognitive perceptions that inspire social innovation intention. The current research framework is constructed to inspect the individual mental process of psychological motivation associated with social innovation intention. The purpose is to understand the relationships between the psychological level of moral idealism, ecological concern, and prior experience on cognitive perceptions of social worth; subsequently, social worth, prosocial motivation, perspective-taking, and positive feelings are examined to discover their influence on social innovation behavioral intention. The transmitting role of social worth exercises a transformative function between participants’ psychological motivation, social cognition, and social innovation intention. The research is conducted using partial least squares (PLS) analysis software. The research results reinforce our understanding of theories of individual psychological motivations on social innovation. The findings also offer some suggestions for sustainability education to social enterprise practitioners with respect to recruiting young people and continuing to generate new ideas.

Demystifying the non-linear effect of high commitment work systems (HCWS) on firms’ strategic intention of exploratory innovation: An extended resource-based view

Drawing on the extended resource-based view (RBV), this paper attempts to test the proactive role of high commitment work systems (HCWS) in affecting firms’ strategic intention of exploratory innovation, and the moderating effect of technological opportunity (TO). Multi-sourced survey data from Chinese firms in high-tech and manufacturing industries are used to test the hypotheses. The results show that HCWS have an inverted U-shaped relationship with firms’ strategic intention of exploratory innovation, and TO positively moderates such a non-linear relationship. By further decomposing TO into science-based (SBTO) and market-based (MBTO), the findings suggest that SBTO positively moderates the non-linear relationship between HCWS and firms’ strategic intention of exploratory innovation, while MBTO only positively moderate the linear relationship between them. These findings enrich the understanding of how HCWS affect firms’ strategic intention of exploratory innovation by highlighting the double-edged sword roles of HCWS, as well as TO's asymmetrically moderating effect, respectively.

Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intention of University Undergraduate Students in Benue State Nigeria

This study examined the effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention of university undergraduate students in Benue State, Nigeria. The study specifically examined the effect of entrepreneurship education on start-up intention and innovation intention among university undergraduate students in Benue State, Nigeria. The adopted the cross-sectional survey design involving university undergraduates in three universities in Benue State. The population of the study comprised of 957 final year students from Faculty of Management Sciences from JS Tarka University Makurdi (224), Benue State University Makurdi (631) and University of Mkar, Mkar (102). Applying Taro Yamene’s formula, a sample size of 282 was realized. The study employed questionnaire as the major instrument for data collection. The items on the questionnaire were all measured on a 5-point scale ranging from 1=strongly disagree to 5=strongly agree. Result of pilot study showed that the reliability for each of the constructs was above 0.70. Simple linear regression analysis was used in testing the data gathered from the survey. Analysis was done with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 23). Findings revealed that entrepreneurship education has significant positive effect on start-up intention and innovation intention of university undergraduate students in Benue State, Nigeria. The study concludes that university undergraduate students’ intentions toward entrepreneurship can be enhanced using entrepreneurship education. This study is an initial call to elaborate an appropriate model of entrepreneurship education in universities in Benue State that will present a more practical and effective entrepreneurship education

The Factors that Influence the Intention of Marketing and Technological Innovation in MSMEs

Innovation drives change, and conversely, innovation occurs because of change. Initially, innovation was only oriented toward technology in discovering new products. Only large companies could do it since it requires a challenging process. All levels, including MSMEs, could carry out further developments and innovation because innovation is not only about technological innovations. Based on this, the research objectives are to analyze the influence of the MSME owner’s characteristics on the intention of marketing and technological innovation through attitude and motivation in Indonesia. SEM analysis with the Smart-PLS program was used to answer the research objectives. The population in this study is the Indonesian micro, small, and medium enterprises from various types of businesses. Samples are 128 respondents to meet Hair theory. The minimum threshold for processing by the Smart PLS program is 100. Judgment sampling is defined as the sampling technique. The results of this study are attitude and motivation affect innovation intentions, both directly and as intervening variables that encourage curiosity, optimism, and risk-taking. Opinion leadership, social status, attitudes, and motivation influence the intention of marketing innovation, whereas awareness, financial stability, optimism, risk-taking, attitudes, and motivation directly affect the intention of technological innovation. The findings of this study are useful for the government and social organizations as a companion for MSMEs to massively increase intention in innovation for MSMEs by creating activities that foster attitudes and motivation to innovate. With the massive formation of attitudes and motivation to innovate, several characteristics possessed by MSME owners are encouraged to strengthen, thus giving rise to the intention to innovate. The innovations carried out by MSMEs on a massive scale can improve their performance and become a solution to the downturn. These characteristics, attitudes, and motivations are the novelty of this research, which are the factors influencing the intention to innovate, both marketing and technological innovation.

Intellectual capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem: the mediating role of organisational innovation and entrepreneurial intentions

Intellectual capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem: the mediating role of organisational innovation and entrepreneurial intentions

The Influence of Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Intention: Evidence From Universities in China's Pearl River Delta.

Entrepreneurship may be taught, and entrepreneurship education is flourishing at colleges and universities. However, previous documents show that entrepreneurship education is inconsistent with the research conclusions of entrepreneurial intention, which is a lack of discussion on the mediating effect of government subsidies from external resources. Based on the cognitive behavior theory, a mediating effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial strategy and entrepreneurial intention is built. By collecting the data of 334 questionnaires of college students in Pearl River Delta in China, a structural equation is used for empirical analysis. The result indicates that entrepreneurship education does not have a significant influence on entrepreneurial intention; exploration innovation and exploitation innovation have a positive influence on entrepreneurial intention, and exploration innovation and exploitation innovation have a mediating effect on entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention; government subsidies have a positive regulating effect on exploration innovation, exploitation innovation, and entrepreneurial intention. In this article, the application of the cognitive behavior theory in the field of entrepreneurship research is expanded to provide the theoretical basis for building the entrepreneurship education ecosystem, which is conductive to innovation and entrepreneurship to promote regional economic development.

Effect of the Importance of Technological Innovation Objectives in Korean SMEs on Innovation Performance: Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Open Cooperation Activities in Regional Differences

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of differences in importance according to the innovation objectives of SMEs on innovation performance. In addition, the mediating effect of open cooperation activities of SMEs was confirmed. Additionally, differences between metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas were observed. Research design, data, and methodology: The independent variable is innovation intention, the dependent variable is innovation performance, and the mediator is an open cooperative activity. KIS (Korea Innovation Survey) 2018 data, which is surveyed biennially by STEPI, was used as analysis data. In this study, logistic-mediated effect analysis was performed. Results: The purpose of technological innovation connected with product innovation performance had a positive effect on product innovation performance. On the other hand, the purpose of technological innovation, which is linked to process innovation performance, has changed in terms of positive and negative influences depending on the type of process innovation. The mediating effect of open cooperation was confirmed differently by country and region. In product innovation performance, the national, metropolitan and non-metropolitan regions showed different mediating effects. In the process innovation performance, it was generally difficult to confirm the mediating effect. Implications: The difference of this study was that it focused on the purpose of innovation, which had not been largely considered as a research subject in the past. The innovation purpose focused on the point inevitably similar to the result, and the innovation purpose was reclassified and interpreted as product innovation, process innovation, organizational innovation, and other innovations. The innovation objectives that have a positive effect on product innovation are product diversification and Market Exploitation/Enlargement, which are objectives related to product innovation. On the other hand, it was confirmed that the innovation objectives related to process innovation generally had a negative effect. It was confirmed that the innovation objectives related to organizational innovation had a positive effect except for the support process innovation performance.

Retraction Note: Influence of GIS technology on coastal atmospheric climate and employee’s innovation intention

Retraction Note: Influence of GIS technology on coastal atmospheric climate and employee’s innovation intention

Universities' Contributions to Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation

The general objective of this research work is to know if the university context, attitudes, norms, and perception of behaviour control influence the intention of social entrepreneurship and social innovation in undergraduate students from the areas of economics, administrative and social. The methodology was based on the Global Survey of University Entrepreneurship Students -GUESSS- in which 34 countries have participated since 2011, with a sample of more than 150,000 students per year. The results by lineal regression and R show that the university context, attitude towards behaviour and subjective norms have a low influence on entrepreneurial intentions. However, they should not be neglected since they generate an effect on entrepreneurial intentions, which is important to highlight in the perceived behavioural control of the ease or difficulty of becoming an entrepreneur.

Innovation as a Consideration for Being a Social Justice Decolonization Construct Within Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning

This paper explores the context of innovation as a social justice decolonization construct used to initiate the education advancement process for Black people. Further, this paper explores how Black people innovated ideologies, legal and social processes, and movements in order to cause upheaval to the societal status quo that denied them education opportunities. The timeline I chose for this focus is pre-Brown vs. Board of Education, as I maintain that the efforts made by Black people to advance their cause for education in the pre-Brown vs. Board of Education era helped to generate forward progress toward the systematic dismantling and decolonization of overt segregationist efforts in education spaces. For centuries, the use of and intention of innovation has been used as a construct to alter the present realities, within a particular time and space, and is usually connected with the technological, scientific, and engineering processes intended to modify or improve products and services. This paper, however, will explore how the efforts to change, alter and disrupt the systemic and societal processes that denied Black people education opportunities were also innovative - in thought, in the form of a long-term vision, and in action - with the intended result of furthering the educational aspirations of themselves and for themselves. Still, further, I argue for the importance of (re)positioning their efforts to change, alter, and initiate the upheaval of systems that were established to oppress them as ones that are innovative and that such efforts be regarded as those that are aligned with social justice decolonization. Further, this paper will describe a contemporary context where innovative teaching and learning practices occur, and analyze how such practices serve as a link to social justice and a visible effort to decolonize learning spaces and create forward academic momentum for students of color.

The Mediating Role of Resistance to Innovative Technology between the Characteristics of Innovative Technology and Sustainable Use of Innovative Payment Service

The purpose of this study is to verify the structural relationship between innovative technology characteristics (recognized usefulness, ease of use, perceived risk), resistance to innovative technologies and acceptance intentions in order for unmanned order payment services to become a sustainable industry. A survey was conducted on experienced users of unmanned order payment services residing in Seoul, and the main analysis results are as follows: first, after verifying the effect of innovative characteristics of unmanned order payment services on resistance to innovative technology, the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of unmanned order payment services negatively affect resistance to innovative technology, and perceived risk has a significant positive effect on resistance to innovative technology. Second, after verifying the effect of resistance to innovative technology to unmanned order payment services on acceptance intention, consumers’ resistance to unmanned order payment services negatively affects acceptance intention. Third, verifying the effect of characteristics of innovative technology of unmanned order payment services on acceptance intention, the perceived usefulness of unmanned order payment services directly had a positive effect on acceptance intention, but the perceived ease of use and perceived risk. Fourth, verification of the mediating effect of resistance to innovative technology in the relationship between the characteristics of innovative technology of unmanned order payment services and the acceptance intention proved significant mediating effects of all of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and perceived risk.

Construction of Innovation Behavior of College-Student Entrepreneurs Using Entrepreneurship and Innovation Theory Under Educational Psychology

The purpose is to analyze the entrepreneurship and innovation education of colleges from the perspective of educational psychology and optimize the teaching mode reform of entrepreneurship and innovation courses. In this study, the theoretical research and case studies are combined to explore the performance of college-student entrepreneurs during college and work and have provided data for targeted entrepreneurship and innovation education in the schools. Meanwhile, the specific manifestation of the entrepreneurial spirit during work is analyzed, and the impact of entrepreneurial spirit is discussed on the new venture performance. The case study shows that most of the surveyed college-student entrepreneurs have a higher educational background and short venture-creation time, and their ventures are mostly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with rapid development. Most entrepreneurs show a strong entrepreneurial spirit during college. Among them, the average score of honesty is 3.85. At work, the surveyed entrepreneurs have high innovation attitude and innovation intention. Most entrepreneurs use innovative methods to solve practical problems in their work, and innovation spirit plays an important role in improving venture performance. Innovation attitude and innovation performance have a significant positive impact on innovation behavior. The research is comprehensive, and the results have very important application value. The results can provide scientific and effective references for colleges to reform entrepreneurship and innovation education.