企业创新能力是实现“创新驱动转型”战略的微观基础，因此提升企业创新能力是个重要议题。许多学者探索了如何提升创新能力，但对哪些因素驱动企业创新能力本身动态发展解释不足。整合动态能力理论与认知理论，从管理认知视角出发，利用国内419个企业样本，本文对高管人员的管理认知与企业创新能力提升间关系进行实证研究。发现：（1）高管人员的管理认知是构建企业创新能力的关键性驱动因素；（2）高管人员对内部资源与对外部环境的认知在提升创新能力过程中，存在复杂的交互效应；（3）高管人员驱动企业创新能力构建中，呈现出“自内向外”的资源驱动而不是“由外向内”的机会拉动的特征。文章最后讨论了理论贡献、管理意义及局限性。

Firms’ innovation capabilities are the micro-foundation to support the strategy of “transformation driven by innovation” to realize. As a result, it is of great importance to leverage a firm’s innovation capabilities. Many scholars have contributed to explain how a firm’s innovation capabilities to be constructed. But the extant literature still cannot explain what factors drive a firm’s endogenous development of innovation capabilities per se.. Integrating the theory of dynamic capability and managerial cognition, the present paper explores the relationship between CEOs’ managerial cognition and firms’ innovation capabilities from the perspective of managerial cognition by using data collected from 419 domestic firms. Findings got: (1) CEOs’ managerial cognitions are key drivers to construct firms’ innovation capabilities; (2) The interaction between a CEO’s resource cognition and environment cognition affects a firm’s innovation capabilities’ construction complicatedly; (3) The effects of a CEO’ managerial cognition promotes a firm’s innovation capabilities’ development shows the characteristic of “inside-out” as resource cognition driven rather than that of “outside-in” as environment munificence driven. Finally, the theoretical contribution, managerial implication and limitation have been discussed.