The relationship among network embeddedness, architecture innovation and collaborative innovation performance of civil-military integration

Abstract

Abstract: The mainstream mode of scientific and technological innovation in the world is changing from single subject innovation to multi-subject collaboration. In the era of knowledge economy and with the full development of information technology, knowledge innovation and technology innovation are playing more and more important roles in improving the competitiveness of enterprises, promoting the upgrading of industries, and promoting the new growth of national economy. The collaborative innovation network of Civil-military integration is a complex system with self-organizing characteristics, which can be divided into two modules: the military industrial technology innovation subsystem and the civil technology innovation subsystem. The reconfiguration of connections between modules can realize multi-dimensional architecture restructuring, thus improving the innovation performance of the whole system. The Civil-military integration must be embedded in the industrial network, and the structure innovation is an important influence factor of deepening Civil-military integration. In order to clarify the influence mechanism of network embeddedness on the collaborative innovation performance, this paper constructs a conceptual model which takes the system architecture innovation as mediating variable and takes the government innovation policy as the moderating variable，then carries out empirical research through questionnaire survey and structural equation model. This paper reviewed the relevant literature and defined the concepts of network embeddedness, architecture innovation, and collaborative innovation performance. In this paper, the network embeddedness is divided into two dimensions: relationship embeddedness and structure embeddedness. The architecture innovation is divided into three dimensions: organizational architecture innovation, knowledge architecture innovation and industrial architecture innovation. Then six groups of hypotheses based on relevant literature analysis and industrial practice were proposed. Data was collected from 136 Civil-military integration enterprises，and analyzed with statistical tools.
The experimental results show that network embeddedness has a significant impact on the collaborative performance improvement of Civil-military integration, which is realized through architecture innovation. During this process, organizational architecture innovation and knowledge architecture innovation were verified to play an intermediary role. The intermediary role of industrial architecture innovation has not been verified, which may be due to the fact that industrial structure innovation is a smooth and long-term process, and its impact on the performance of collaborative innovation has a certain lag. At present, the industrial architecture of the military-civilian integration system has not been significantly improved. What′s more, government cooperation promotion policy can lower the industry barriers for civilian enterprises to enter the military technology field, reduce the uncertainty and instability of cooperation, and play a moderating role between relationship embeddedness and collaborative innovation performance. But it also weakens the "structural-hole" status of military enterprises, it does not play a positive moderating role in the relationship between structural embeddedness and synergetic innovation performance as a result. In addition, intellectual property protection policies did not have the regulatory effect on the relationship between the two as expected. The intellectual property protection policy will strengthen the protection of the core knowledge of the enterprises, thus hindering the exchange of knowledge resources between the enterprises to a certain extent and adversely affecting the role of the members of different organizations in cooperation. Therefore, it is not conducive to the improvement of collaborative innovation performance. This research has certain reference and guiding significance for leading the deep and coordinated development of China′s Civil-military integration industry.

Key words: network embeddedness, architecture innovation, collaborative innovation, civil-military integration

Peng Benhong, Wang Xuejiao. The relationship among network embeddedness, architecture innovation and collaborative innovation performance of civil-military integration[J]. Science Research Management, 2021, 42(7): 116-125.

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