The impact of characteristics of industry-university-research cooperation network on innovation performance: mediating role of social capital
- Autores: Chenying Wang, Zhihong Zhu
- Localización: Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences, ISSN-e 2444-8656, Vol. 7, Nº. 2, 2022, págs. 1053-1066
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Taking A-share listed companies in the petroleum industry as the research object, this paper empirically studies the relation-ship among the characteristics of industry-university-research (IUR) cooperation network, social capital, and innovationperformance in the petroleum companies. The empirical research results show that the strength and centrality of the IURcooperation network in the petroleum industry positively affect social capital and innovation performance; Network scalehas no significant positive impact on social capital and innovation performance; Social capital plays a partially mediatingrole in the influence of characteristics of IUR cooperation network on innovation performance. According to the researchfindings, some strategies to improve the innovation performance of petroleum companies are proposed, which includeoccupying the center of the IUR cooperation network, high-frequency interaction with the objects of the IUR cooperationnetwork, and expansion of the IUR cooperation network should match its own growth stage.
