A Study on the Cognitive Factors Influencing the Independent Innovation Capability of Beijing Enterprises

At present, there is still a certain distance between the overall technological innovation capability of Beijing enterprises and the goal of building an innovative country. The concept of human beings is the most important thing that affects innovation activities, and it is the internal driving force of innovation. It manifests as people’s attitudes towards innovative activities. Especially the correct understanding of innovation influencing factors by senior management, technology management departments, and other relevant management departments often determines the support for innovation, including resource investment, institutional and incentive mechanism construction, etc. Based on survey data from 532 innovative enterprises in Beijing, this study analyzed the cognitive factors influencing four categories of independent innovation. The research found that the importance of innovation influencing factors in Beijing enterprises is in the order of internal resources, marketization and education, intellectual property protection, policies, and industrial chain. The correct understanding of the factors influencing innovation by senior management and relevant departments often determines the level of support for innovation. Some managers have insufficient understanding of innovation and should consider organizational learning of innovation related knowledge as an important activity for the enterprise, in order to build a favorable management mechanism and platform for supporting technology personnel to achieve innovation.