《英语专业--中国中小企业在自主创新中遇到的困难》-毕业论文（设计）.docVIP

Overcoming barriers to innovation in SMEs in China: A perspective based cooperation network Publication:?Innovation : Management, Policy PracticeAuthor:?Xie, X MDate published:?December 1, 2010 (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) 1. INTRODUCTION In the fast-changing and increasingly competitive global market, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) exert a strong influence on economic growth and technological development of many countries through their ability to innovate new products and processes (Zhu et al., 2006). Nevertheless, innovation is difficult to realize, especially for SMEs with little experience and resources (Kaufmann and T?dtling, 2002). Many failure stories of SMEs in technology innovation reveal that there are various factors impeding their innovation process (ORegan et al., 2006; Zeng et al., 2010). Since the implementation of the open policy in 1978, China has made great efforts to change from a former highly-centralized planned state to the current market economy (Gu and Lundvall, 2006). The role of SMEs has been expanding in this changing socio-political context of China (Anderson et al., 2003). They not only play a greater role in the economies (accounting for more than 99% of all firms), but also contribute in a large extent to the increased levels of business activity and employment (Siu, 2001, 2005). As the largest city and the center for economy, finance and trades, Shanghai has undergone dramatic changes as reflected by the rapid growth of SMEs, not only generating a large number of SMEs around the city of Shanghai that overspill into the surrounding area of the Yangtze River Delta, but also a high total turnover (Zeng et al., 2009a). According to the data from Shanghai Municipal Statistics, the number of SMEs had increased to 363,600 by the end of 2006, accounting for 99.70% of the total number of enterprises, and the total turnover had reached 3635 billion Yuan, accounting for 63.10 % of the total turnover of all enterprises