Making technological innovation work in Chinese enterprises: Some insights into technological entrepreneurship

Purpose – This study seeks to address the issue of the factors influencing Chinese enterprises technological entrepreneurship capabilities. This study is particularly relevant in light of the driving role given to enterprises in the process of transforming China into an innovation-oriented nation and leading science power. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on a broad literature review, covering various theoretical fields in International as well as Chinese management literature, to develop an integrated research framework. Relying on a multi-disciplinary and multi-level approach, the framework highlights a number of internal processes and external network attributes, their interactions and moderating relationships as related to their impact on Chinese enterprises technological entrepreneurship capabilities and their contributions to business performance. Findings – The paper offers an overview of the factors that affect technological entrepreneurship capabilities, with particular reference to Chinese enterprises. Also the study highlights some understudied issues and points to a number of research directions of specific relevance for the Chinese context. In this aim a number of theoretical propositions have been identified. Originality/value – The paper provides an integrated multi-disciplinary and multi-level research framework that allows to organize the body of knowledge scattered in different literatures and contexts in a state-of-the-art of the research in technology entrepreneurship capabilities, as well as to identify more specific research questions, model, testable hypothesis and related studies that build on and add value to previous research