The Relationship Between CTO External Social Capital, CTO Technology Strategy Participation and Technological Innovation Performance

The paper absorbed research results on social capital, technological innovation performance from domestic and foreigner. On the basis, this paper from the individual level perspective of a CTO and in charge of the CTO who is the head of technology management in an enterprise, on the relationship of the external social capital they owned with technological innovation performance. At the same time, the paper from the perspective of technology strategy, explored the intermediary role of CTO technology strategy participation in the following relationship, the related conceptual model was also proposed, as a start-ups exploration in this field, hoping to enrich the community Capital Research’s content, and to expand the correspond knowledge. Also, this study surveyed high-tech enterprises in China, in order to test the above conceptual model, the following are conclusions: the structure dimension, the relationship dimension, the cognitive dimension of CTO external social capital are related to CTO Technology Strategy Participation and Technological Innovation Performance; CTO Technology Strategy Participation is play an intermediary role in the relationship of CTO External Social Capital structure dimension, relationship dimension and Technological Innovation Performance.