Abstract This study used Metaanalysis to integrate results from piles of researches about the relationship between network strength and enterprise innovation. Based on 12430 samples drawn from 57 independent studies, it finds a significant and positive relationship between network strength and enterprise innovation, which confirms network strength is conducive to enterprise innovation in a general sense. Then it explored this relationship from the perspective of types of network strength, which turns out that the strength of business networks and technology networks are all positive significantly relevant to enterprise innovation. What’s more, this effect is larger in technology networks. Finally, it derived moderators of this relationship concerning on cultural, industrial and regional difference. It shows that cultural, industrial and regional factors imply the relationship with a stronger effect in the context of eastern culture, traditional industry and developed region.
2015, Vol. 12 
