设计创新重要性众所周知。但以产品意义创新为核心的设计创新如何开展的研究很少。本文通过对设计创新能力全面深入剖析，尝试解决上述问题。通过对196份有效问卷进行EFA、CFA和模型拟合，本文得到如下结论：（1）设计创新能力分为内涵设计创新能力、外延设计创新能力和技术能力，三种能力相互促进；（2）内涵设计创新能力对创新绩效作用最大；（3）技术能力必须通过内涵设计创新能力和外延设计创新能力影响创新绩效；（4）给出培养设计创新能力的建议。最后论文探讨了未来的研究方向。

The importance of design innovation is well recognized. Product meaning innovation has not been well studied as core to design innovation. Research on this issue is still in its embryonic phase. We try to open the black box of design innovation how to carry out product meaning innovation through thorough analysis of design innovation capability. Using an in-depth data analysis, like EFA, CFA and model fitting with data collected from 196 southeast coastal enterprises, we have three four important findings. First, design innovation capability can be divided into technology capability, connotation design capability and denotation design capability, which have significant positive relationship with each other. Second, connotation design capability is most important to innovation performance, followed with denotation design capability, and technology capability has no direct relationship with innovation performance. Third, the effect of technology capability on innovation performance is fully mediated by connotation design capability and denotation design capability. Fourth, several managerial suggestions are proposed on how to cultivate design innovation capability, and future research suggestions proposed in the end of the paper.