Study on Evaluation System of Innovation Capabilities in Manufacturing Firms

Innovation capabilities are the key ingredient in enhancing the firms’ competitiveness and ensuring their survival. Obviously, there are quite different in innovation activities between mauufacturing firms and service firms. It is necessary to consider the distinctness between them in evaluating firms’ innovation capabilities. This paper proposes a model of innovation capabilities in manufacturing firms based on the innovation process which includes six parts: input capability, R&D capability, manufacturing capability, marketing capability, output capability and managerial innovation capability. Based on the model and systematic principle, scientific principle, commeasurable principle, easy operative principle and guidance principle, this paper also presents a basic framework of the evaluation index system of innovation capabilities in manufacturing firms.