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The Empirical Study of Firm’s Social Capital and Technology Innovation Ability

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Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing ((AINSC,volume 163))

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The new economic times requires firms to improve the enterprise’s technological innovation capability and competitive advantage by integrating a variety of resources. as an important component of firms capital, Social capital is a new perspective to improve technological innovation. In this paper, I combined theoretical and empirical study methods. Through the study of Social capital theory, combining theoretical development of technology innovation and knowledge from three dimensions of Social capital, using quantitative methods for statistical analysis, obtain the social capital of the relationship between technological innovation ability.

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Li, X., Wang, T., Liu, Y. (2012). The Empirical Study of Firm’s Social Capital and Technology Innovation Ability. In: Zhang, W. (eds) Advanced Technology in Teaching. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 163. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29458-7_2

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