Author(s)

Mingming Ding^*, Xiaoqin Huang

School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.

In the past, research on the effect of external resource integration on technological innovation focused on product innovation, and process innovation was largely ignored due to its silence. The study takes the high-tech manufacturing industry in China’s Bohai Rim, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions as a sample, and empirically analyzes the impact of government support, industry-university-research knowledge integration, and customer knowledge integration on corporate process innovation. The study found that: 1) government support can significantly promote process innovation, industry-university-research knowledge integration, and improve corporate performance. 2) The industry-university-research knowledge integration has a relatively significant positive impact on process innovation, but has no significant impact on firm performance. 3) Customer knowledge integration negatively affects process innovation and has no significant impact on firm performance.

Process Innovation, Government Support, Industry-University-Research Knowledge Integration, Customer Knowledge Integration

Ding, M. and Huang, X. (2019) Research on the Effect of External Resource Acquisition on Process Innovation. Open Journal of Business and Management, 7, 755-774. doi: 10.4236/ojbm.2019.72050.