The relationship between enterprise innovation network’s pattern and innovation performance

Based on literature reviews of prior relevant researches, this paper studies the relationship between enterprise innovation network’s pattern and innovation performance. First, using data from 234 enterprises in different industries, the author divides the enterprise innovation network into four types (manufacturer, islander, leader and follower), based on the cluster analysis. Second, using single-factor analysis of variance, the author finds the following conclusions-for SMEs, manufacturer and follower are better types of enterprise innovation network. Leader’s performance of the new products is the best, but its economic performance is not better than the that of manufacturer and follower. Islander’s performance of product innovation, process innovation and economic performance are lower than that of the other three types of innovation network. Thus, enterprise Innovation success requires not only a high-intensity innovation network, but also the network structure that meets the business goals.