Heterogeneous Combinations of Knowledge Elements: How the Knowledge Base Structure Impacts Knowledge‑related Outcomes of a Firm*
Heterogeneous Combinations of Knowledge Elements: How the Knowledge Base Structure Impacts Knowledge‑related Outcomes of a Firm*
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2013-04
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Y. Matsumoto
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Y. Matsumoto
知识是企业最重要的资源。虽然许多学者都集中在企业的知识基础，很少有研究探讨的知识基础结构的影响，知识要素是如何相互联系或分离的集群对企业的知识相关的成果。本研究探讨了知识库结构，并测试假设的异质组合的知识元素的结果的影响。通过对LCD技术相关专利的分析，发现（1）企业发明的有用性与技术上不同的知识组成部分之间的知识链接密度正相关，（2）企业发明的平均有用性与技术上不同的知识组成部分之间的知识链接密度正相关，（3）发明的数量与过于分散的知识成分之间的知识联系密度呈负相关。
Knowledge is the preeminent resource of a firm. Although many scholars have focused on the firm's knowledge base, few studies have examined the effects of the knowledge base structure—how knowledge elements are linked or separated from each other in clusters—on firm's knowledge-related outcomes. This study examines the knowledge base structure, and tests hypotheses about the effects of heterogeneous combinations of knowledge elements on the outcomes. Through an analysis of the patents related to LCD technology, (1) the usefulness of an organization's inventions correlates positively with the density of the knowledge links between technologically different knowledge components, (2) the average usefulness of a firm's inventions correlates positively with the density of the knowledge links between technologically disparate knowledge components, (3) the number of inventions correlates negatively with the density of the knowledge links between excessively disparate knowledge components.