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Research on the evaluation model of Chinese enterprises' technological innovation system: From a perspective of complex system

Xi Chen (Business School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China)
Shuming Zhao (Business School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China)

Chinese Management Studies

ISSN: 1750-614X

Publication date: 30 March 2012

Abstract

Purpose

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The purpose of this paper is to focus on the evaluation model of the enterprises' technological innovation system, based on the theory of complex adaptive system.

Design/methodology/approach

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Combined with the status quo and recent studies of Chinese enterprises' technological innovation, the paper discusses the complex‐system features of the technological innovation. The stimulus‐response model is used to establish the two‐level framework for enterprises' technological innovation system. By means of the adaptive fitness function, the economic and social utility of enterprises' technological innovation is measured from two dimensions. Finally, the fuzzy catastrophe model is introduced to evaluate the enterprises' technological innovation.

Findings

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The enterprises' technological innovation system has attributions of the subject aggregation, the systematic openness, nonlinearity and diversity. Thus, the macro‐micro based technological innovation system from the perspective of complex adaptive system is proposed. The system utility is considered based on the system subjects and system structure, and the calculation framework of the adaptive fitness for the whole system is obtained by considering the emergent property describing the system scale effect and structure effect. In fact, the fuzzy theory can well reflect the influential situation that the interactions between different factors may cause the mutation of the higher level and the interactions between enterprises can lead to the shifts of the system.

Originality/value

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The paper proposes the complex adaptive system for the enterprises' technological innovation based on the special macro environment in China. A new framework for the research of technological innovation is provided by analyzing the system inner model. Fuzzy catastrophe model can reduce the evaluation irrationality due to the subjective index weights.

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Citation

Chen, X. and Zhao, S. (2012), "Research on the evaluation model of Chinese enterprises' technological innovation system: From a perspective of complex system", Chinese Management Studies, Vol. 6 No. 1, pp. 65-77. https://doi.org/10.1108/17506141211213735

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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