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( Bernard 1999 , 2004 ) and hence stimulate innovation confidence and innovative
intention: selecting complementary-resource partners can help enterprises use
different thinking methods and obtain a variety of heterogeneous resources and
innovative resource and then get more support for innovative behaviour and
selecting innovative partners; it can help enterprise to learn the spirit of innovation,
knowledge, and skills from partners, then greatly enhance their learning desire
and innovative potential via the atmosphere of innovation and hence promote the
innovative activities.

3.1.3 Strategic Controlling Capability and Innovative Activity

Through two aspects it affects the network innovative intention and innovative
behaviour. Firstly, strategic controlling capability can cultivate the innovation
atmosphere. It pays more attention to enterprise continuous improvement, not
only setting a certain goal then indulge nothing, thus it provides a more suitable
environment for their innovative activities. Secondly, strategic controlling capability
can reduce the uncertainty and risk in the process of innovation. It makes timely ad-
justment to adapt to the changes of external environment and effectively reduce the
poor execution, opportunism, and knowledge plagiarism risk, which can stimulate
the innovative intention and behaviour. Proposition la: Alliance strategic capability
has a positive effect on innovative activity.

3.2 Interaction Between Alliance Learning Capability

and Innovative Activity

3.2.1 Knowledge Gathering Capability and Innovative Activity

On one hand, knowledge gathering capability partly decides the stock of enterprise's
knowledge gathering. It can expand their knowledge boundary, make the enterprise
to have more opportunity to contact, and obtain more extensive information, knowl-
edge, and other tangible and intangible resources, and if the enterprise knowledge
basement is more abundant, knowledge structure is more complete, information is
more rich, then the enterprise is more conducive to avoid their own thinking “lock”
effect and be more innovative. Therefore, the stronger the enterprise knowledge
gathering capability is, the more it can stimulate the innovative intention of the
enterprise and lead to more innovative behaviour. On the other hand, knowledge
gathering capability partly decides the quality of enterprise' knowledge gathering.
The current research generally believes that the quality of knowledge (the scope,
timeliness, and effectiveness) determines the frequency and efficiency of innovative
activities. Thus the stronger the enterprise knowledge gathering capability is, the