Analysis of the Situation Survey of Enterprises’ Innovation

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10.2991/emim-16.2016.176How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Innovation; Manufacturing industry; Enterprise; Community Innovation Survey (CIS)

Abstract

This paper is a summary review of the survey of the manufacturing firms’ innovation in Shaoxing city in China. The questionnaire consisted of 11 kinds of questions pertaining to product innovation, process innovation, innovation activity, sources of innovation, factors hampering innovation and so on. The questions in the questionnaire mainly come from the fourth Community Innovation Survey (CIS4) which conducted by Eurostat. The main results of the survey include: 1) the main type of product innovation is good innovation, which is always developed by a firm alone or together with other firms; 2) there are main innovation activities including acquisition of other external knowledge, in-house R&D and training employee; 3) both customers and suppliers maybe are the most important information sources for innovation; 4) improved quality of product is the most important effect of product innovation while reducing labor costs per unit and reducing materials(energy) per unit are the most unimportant effect of process innovation; 5) innovation risk in the traditional manufacturing firms basically is moderate.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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