There are important similarities in national approaches to: enhancing innovative capabilities, breaking down innovation barriers, financing innovative activities often through innovative business models, collaborating with international firms, profiting from intellectual property, and to facing global competition.
This research makes several contributions to improve the modelling of an open innovation strategy that can enhance the innovative capabilities of manufacturing enterprises based on the existing research.
Reversely, the strategic suppliers contribute greatly to technological innovation by relying on the comprehensive innovative capabilities from their R&D, production and quality assurance departments.
The argumentation is that the networks of experts, businesses, policymakers, and social organizations can generate institutional arrangements that enable innovations even in regions with low innovative capabilities [16 18].
They believe the strategy that takes both exploratory innovation and exploitation innovation into account is an important means to enhance innovative capabilities (Lakemond and Detterfelt 2013).
Each group's innovativeness will be measured, both before and after the innovation training is completed, to determine if the innovation intervention had an impact on either group's innovative capabilities.
In 2008, the Chinese government made a training plan to transfer the knowledge of creativity and innovation to the companies nationwide in order to increase their innovative capabilities (Tan and Zhang 2014; Tan 2013).
In addition, emerging economy firms, which traditionally have played a secondary role in the global innovation landscape, have now begun to catch up in developing their own innovative capabilities.
China is the classic bubble economy, its innovative capabilities fatally undermined by the one-party state.
It can also enable wholly new and innovative capabilities that can completely differentiate a company.
Recruiting directors with technological expertise is one avenue through which boards can boost their innovative capabilities.
