A research on the connotation, boundary and effectiveness of the enterprise research and development system

The enterprise research and development (in short, R&D) system is the basis of the regional, industrial, and even national innovation system. The coupling degree of the enterprise R&D system elements and the interaction relationships between the elements and the external environment will both cause deep influence on all kinds of the innovation systems which are mentioned above. In contrast to the existing literatures which only consider the elements and operational processes in the R&D system based on the closed perspective, from the view of system opening, this paper re-examines the connotation, boundary and the input-output relationship between the enterprise R&D system and its external environment, systematic analyzes the effectiveness of the enterprise R&D system, and hopes to provide the basis of theoretical analysis for the relative researches on the enterprise R&D system and its external environment.