Research on the improvement of independent innovation capability of enterprises from the path dependence perspective: Based on the demonstration of the strategic emerging industry in Zhejiang province of China1

The enterprise competitiveness is one of the core issues in the development of the national and regional economy, and its centre is the independent innovation of enterprises. At present, the enterprises in Zhejiang province are faced with external environment which is extremely complex and turbulent. The traditional resource-based views and the core competence analysis are no longer applicable to the technology research which developed increasingly fast. The realistic technological innovation is the inevitable result of enterprise technological researches and development activities. At the same time, to a large extent, enterprises´ technological innovation is a process of trial and error in market where a multitude of random factors, evident uncertainty and accumulation exist. Therefore, path dependence exists in the process of technological innovation. Through the analysis of the enterprise innovation process, the learning process and the technological knowledge accumulation, the behavior pattern of enterprises can be understood more accurately, the enterprise theory can be further improved, the research contents of economics can be enriched, and the guiding ideology for the research of Innovation Economics and Technological Economics can be obtained. In this paper, the path dependence of the technological innovation activities of the strategic emerging industries in Zhejiang province was quantitatively analyzed by using the theory of Evolutionary Economics, and the acting path was studied systematically.