A Research on the Relationships of Enterprise Diversity and Knowledge Creation, Business Performance ——An Analysis from Regional Innovation Space Perspective
A Research on the Relationships of Enterprise Diversity and Knowledge Creation, Business Performance ——An Analysis from Regional Innovation Space Perspective
YUAN Xiangfei1,2, GUAN Chenghua1,2
1.School of Economics Resource Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; 2.Beijing Key Lab of Study on Sci-tech Strategy for Urban Green Development, Beijing 100875, China
Abstract Over the past thirty years, technology innovation has been the critical strategy of Chinese government, and technology business incubators (TBIs) were expected to play a primary role in the process. After the “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” initiative was proposed in 2014, the number of TBIs in China had soared to 4,069 in 2017. Although there are abundant literatures on the relationship between TBIs and universities and research institutes, few are focusing on the inner structure of TBIs, especially from the diversity perspective. Based on the statistical panel data of Chinese incubators from 2015 to 2017, by using the Simpson Diversity Index, this paper measures the cultural diversity, industrial diversity and educational diversity of founders of enterprises in the regional innovation space. Through negative binomial regression model and truncated regression model, this paper discusses the influence of enterprise diversity in regional innovation space on knowledge creation and business performance. And it is found that: 1) there are significant inverted u-shaped relationships among enterprise diversity, knowledge creation and business performance, namely with the constant improvement of enterprise diversity in regional innovation space, knowledge creation and business performance firstly increase and then decrease. 2) The improvement of knowledge creation ability should mainly focus on cultural diversity, while the improvement of business performance should mainly focus on industrial diversity. In addition, two pieces of advice are supplied: one is to plan the appropriate internal enterprise structure of TBIs, the second is to make proper innovation strategy.
YUAN Xiangfei,GUAN Chenghua. A Research on the Relationships of Enterprise Diversity and Knowledge Creation, Business Performance ——An Analysis from Regional Innovation Space Perspective. Economic Survey, 2020, 37(2): 019.
2020, Vol. 37 
