How Does Knowledge Coupling Affect Firm’s Incremental Innovation? The Moderating Effects of Government Support Policies

Table 2

Descriptive statistics and correlation analysis.

	Mean	SD	FA	FS	TT	CKC	SKC	FTS	IES	II
FA	3.56	0.93	—
FS	3.38	1.05	0.54	—
TT	3.58	0.79	0.08	0.12	0.71
CKC	3.54	0.70	0.14	0.07	0.48	0.74
SKC	3.83	0.76	−0.02	0.08	0.40	0.62	0.75
FTS	3.50	0.94	0.07	0.16^∗	0.55	0.50	0.38	0.78
IES	3.56	0.89	0.00	0.23	0.60	0.53	0.43	0.79	0.76
II	3.91	0.70	0.10	0.12^∗	0.54	0.51	0.46	0.40	0.44	0.75

Note. N = 279; the diagonal in italics is the square root of the AVE; ; . FA = firm age; FS = firm size; TT = technology turbulence; CKC = complementary knowledge coupling; SKC = substitutable knowledge coupling; FTS = finance and tax policy support; IES = innovation environmental support; II = incremental innovation.