CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK ON MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION OF FIRM INNOVATION PERFORMANCE BASED ON “EFFICIENCY-OUTPUT”
BINB JIANG
Business School, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, No. 6 W Lvshun Nanlu, Lvshunkou District, 116044, Dalian, China.
YAN HOU *
Department Foreign Languages, Dalian Medical University, No. 9 W Lvshun Nanlu, Lvshunkou District, 116044, Dalian, China.
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Abstract
As a main index of firm technological innovation capacity, firm innovation performance captures extensive attentions among management and academia, although disagreement on its measurement or evaluation among different researchers still exist, which mainly caused by the lack or inexistence of universally used measurement scheme of firms innovation performance. Based on investigation to current researches related to firm innovation performance, we place, in this paper, more emphasis on the identification of influencing factors and upgrading path of firm innovation performance, measurement or evaluation of firm innovation performance, after carding and review, we construct a comprehensive framework to evaluate firm innovation performance according to the composition and representation forms, in hopes to show the direction for future researches.
Keywords: Firm innovation performance, evaluation, efficiency, output.