Network competence helpful to access the resources and knowledge related to innovation for firm, have significant contribution to performance of innovation. Unfortunately, past researches combine the network management tasks that refer to the firm's level and network management qualifications that refer to individual level, mitigate understanding how network competence help to innovation. The study verifies the positive relationship between network competence and innovation performance in the context of service innovation. Moreover, we find the network management tasks, necessary tasks to manage network, have significant contribution to long-term performance of service innovation and the network management qualifications, necessary qualifications to executive the tasks, have significant contribution to short-term performance of service innovation. Furthermore, the study discusses the theoretical and managerial implications and the future research directions.