The effect of science and innovation competition experience on graduate students' innovativeness:A moderated mediation model
In order to investigate the influence mechanism between technological innovation and entrepreneurship competition and graduate students' innovation ability,based on the experiential learning theory and social information processing theory,the research collects two-stage survey data from 231 current graduate students,and examines the mediating role of innovation self-efficacy and the moderating role of mentor's autonomy support between the experience of technological innovation and entrepreneurship competition and innovation self-efficacy. The research finds that:participation experience and participation frequency positively affect graduate students' innovation ability,but participation level does not have a significant positive effect;the experience of technological innovation and entrepreneurship competition indirectly enhances graduate students' innovation ability through the innovation self-efficacy;the higher the level of mentor's independent support,the stronger the positive effect of the experience of technological innovation and entrepreneurship competition on the innovation self-efficacy,which then has a greater positive effect on graduate students' innovation ability.