Empirical Study on Innovation Process for Complex Product System in China

Complex Product System (CoPS) is the product, subsystem or establishment, which is high-cost, large-scale, high-tech and engineering-extensive. Based on the research on technological innovation and CoPS by scholars, this paper introduces the definition and the scope of CoPS, figures out the relationship and the distinction between CoPS and classical technological innovation theories, and establishes a new framework of innovation process model for CoPS, which combines the flow of innovation and the innovation system. According to this framework, the innovation process of CoPS is elaborated by the case of watercraft of Chinese Jiangnan Shipyard.