Dynamic Absorptive Capability and Innovation Performance: Evidence from Chinese Cities

Sustainability

Wentian Shi¹  Debin Du²  Chunguang Hou²  Meiqi Jiao²  Qinchang Gui² 

[1] Department of Hospitality Management, Shanghai Business School, Shanghai 200235, China;Institute for Global Innovation and Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China;

关键词: absorptive capability;    urban innovation;    social networks;    regional development;    dynamic capability;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su132011460

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Absorptive capability is the capability of actors to acquire, assimilate and exploit external knowledge. In this paper, we consider absorptive capability to be multi-dimensional and to have three dimensions. Although a sufficient amount of work in the literature discusses dynamic absorptive capability, empirical studies are relatively rare. At the urban or regional levels, related empirical studies are even fewer. In this paper, we build a framework of the dynamic absorptive capability at the urban level by using 339 Chinese cities at the prefecture level and above as our sample. In order to take the geographical distance into consideration, we use a Spatial Durbin Model to measure the effects of the acquirement, assimilation, and exploitation of absorptive capability. The results show that all of the core variables (acquirement, assimilation, and exploitation) have significant positive impacts on innovation performance. Additionally, the two control variables (R&D personnel and R&D investment) have significant positive impacts on innovation performance. In this way, the role performed by multidimensional absorptive capability in fostering innovation performance is highlighted, and some policy recommendations are provided.

【 授权许可】

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