Research on Knowledge Transfer Networks, Enterprise Relationship Networks and Innovation in Traditional Industrial Cluster

DOI

10.2991/hss-26.2016.117How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Knowledge transfer, Enterprise relationship networks, Innovation, Traditional industrial cluster.

Abstract

Knowledge transfer has significant impact on enterprises’ innovation performance and in SME clusters various relationships between enterprises is the main channel of knowledge transfer. Knowledge and information transfer through enterprises’ relationships and then promote the enterprises’ innovation activities, which is the primary way of traditional industrial SMEs to obtain innovation in China. This research bases on the practices of Foshan lighting cluster and constructs the whole network of formal member enterprises of Foshan Lighting Association. The goal of this article is to demonstrate the structural characteristics of knowledge transfer networks and to examine mainly through which enterprise relationship that explicit and tacit knowledge transfer and to demonstrate how the location of enterprise within the knowledge transfer network plays a key role in the innovation performance. Findings are that explicit knowledge transfers not only by the weak market ties but also by the strong social ties while the transfer of tacit knowledge mainly depends on the social ties. Centrality in both explicit and tacit knowledge networks has significant positive impact on the product and process innovation, however, the structure hole has non-significant influence on innovation performance.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Min Li
AU  - Yanling Song
AU  - Zhengqun Zhan
AU  - Ziting Li
PY  - 2016/01
DA  - 2016/01
TI  - Research on Knowledge Transfer Networks, Enterprise Relationship Networks and Innovation in Traditional Industrial Cluster
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Humanities and Social Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 700
EP  - 707
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/hss-26.2016.117
DO  - 10.2991/hss-26.2016.117
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