R&D COOPERATION AND ENTERPRISE INNOVATION.ANALYSIS BASED ON CHINA'S MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

Abstract

In the context of open innovation, R&D cooperation is an important way to enhance the innovation performance of enterprises. Based on sample survey data from manufacturing production bases in western Shandong Province, China, this paper analyzes and researches on the impact of R&D cooperation on the innovation of Chinese manufacturing enterprises. The study shows that: R&D cooperation has a significant role in promoting the marginal benefit of organizational R&D investment; cooperation between enterprises and suppliers facilitates product innovation input and output, and has a positive role in promoting enterprise innovation; R&D cooperation between enterprises and customers promotes the investment in enterprise product innovation, which helps to improve product innovation to a certain extent; R&D cooperation between enterprises and universities or research institutes � improves enterprise innovation performance; R&D cooperation between enterprises and universities or research institutes � improves enterprise innovation performance. Improvement of enterprise innovation performance. The conclusion of the study is to emphasize that R&D cooperation is an important source of enterprise innovation, and enterprises should build effective cooperative relationships to achieve continuous innovation.