Impact of Incubator Orchestration Capacity on Innovation Performance of Incubation Network: The Mediating Role of Network Synergistic Effect

Abstract

Abstract:

Given the fact that incubators' function of promoting the development and evolution of incubation network is often ignored, we introduce orchestration theory into enterprise incubation network and propose incubator orchestration capacity to explain the contradictory conclusion of the usefulness and impact of business incubator on incubation performance and enrich the reference to exploring influencing factors in incubation process. Sampling data from 194 incubated firms, this paper discusses the mechanism of impact of incubator orchestration capacity on incubation network innovation performance from network perspective. The results show that incubator knowledge mobility capacity, innovation appropriability capacity and network stability capacity all have a positive and significant impact on incubation network innovation performance; all dimensions of incubator orchestration capacity have a positive and significant impact on incubation network synergistic effect; network synergy has a complete mediating effect on the relationship between incubator knowledge mobility capacity and incubation network innovation performance and a partial mediating effect in the relationship among innovation appropriability capacity, network stability capacity and incubation network innovation performance, respectively. The research conclusions contribute a new theoretical perspective of explaining incubation performance diversification, and could be a new reference to complementing incubator capacity construction and decoding incubation resource orchestration process to improve incubation performance.

Key words: incubator orchestration capacity, incubation network innovation performance, network synergy, knowledge mobility, innovation appropriability, network stability

Bi Kejia, Hu Haiqing, Zhang Daohong. Impact of Incubator Orchestration Capacity on Innovation Performance of Incubation Network: The Mediating Role of Network Synergistic Effect[J]. , 2017, 29(4): 36-46.

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