Measurement of Technological Ability of Technology-orientel Firms by Techno-potential concept

本研究探讨技术势概念在技术型企业中的意义与局限性。技术潜力是指企业内部和外部投入的R&D费用的折旧存量，它是衡量潜在技术能力的指标之一，本文主要关注技术型企业技术潜力的识别。由于企业的各种因素原则上最终直接或间接地与其最终绩效相关，因此我们发现很难将技术贡献（因素）与其他贡献（因素）准确区分开来。传统的方法是采用全要素生产率（TFP）的概念，但TFP作为衡量企业潜在技术能力的指标存在诸多缺陷，技术潜力的提出正是为了克服TFP的这些缺陷。由于技术潜力是一种存量概念，因此，在分析TFP时，必须注意TFP的重要性和TFP的重要性 ...更多信息 两个特点;时滞和折旧。也就是说，在一定的时间内，（即，等待期）是R&D流积累为存量并结出果实所必需的。此外，随着时间的推移，它必然会失去新奇和价值。技术潜力一方面反映了生产的各个方面，如劳动力和资本，当它有助于生产以商业为导向的产品时。另一方面，它也用于产生非商业导向的输出，如研究论文，报告和专有技术。然而，技术潜力确实只衡量旨在技术改进的货币投资的投入方面。在现实中，更多的货币投资在R&D活动并不一定会导致更高的创新概率。为了更准确地识别企业的潜在技术能力，我们引入了另一个概念，管理潜力库，将技术潜力与“真实的”潜在技术能力联系起来。水库是各管理潜力的支撑和连接平台。我们认为，这种管理潜能的储存库就是组织智能，而这种储存库本质上与“人性化”有关，包括人际网络的形成和知识共享的信息系统。我们建议所谓的“软系统方法”在激活技术潜力的作用。少

In this research the meaning and limitations of the concept of techno-potential in a technology-based firm is investigated. Techno-potential, depreciated stock of R&D expenditure invested internally and/or externally to the firm, is proposed as one of indices of measuring potential technological ability.Our concern is primarily with the identification of technological potential capability in a technology-based firm. Since a variety of factors of the firm are in principle ultimately related directly or indirectly to its final performance, we find it difficult to differentiate technological contribution (factor) to it exactly from other contributions (factors). A conventional way of doing this is to adopt the concept of TFP (Total Factor Productivity).However, as an index of the potential technological capability of the firm TFP has several disadvantages Techno-potential is proposed to overcome these disadvantages of TFP.Since techno-potential is a kind of stock concept, we must notice t … More wo characteristics ; time lag and depreciation. That is, a certain time, (i.e., a waiting period) is necessary for the R&D flow to be accumulated as the stock and to bear fruit. Furthermore, it necessarily loses novelty and value as time passes.Techno-potential, on one hand, reflects aspects of production such as labor and capital when it contributes to the production of commercially-oriented output. On the other, it also serves to produce non commercially-oriented output such as research papers, reports and know-how. However, it is true that techno-potential only measures the input side of monetary investment aimed at technological improvement. In reality more monetary investment in R&D activities does not necessarily lead to a higher innovation probability. In order to identify the potential technological capability of the firm in a more 'accurate' way we introduce anoter concept, a reservoir of management potential, to link techno-potential with 'real' potential technological capability. The reservoir is a supporting and connecting platform for each management potential. We claim that this reservoir of management potential is, namely, organizational intelligence.The reservoir is essentially related with 'humanware' including human network formation and knowledge-sharing information systems. We suggest a role of the so called "soft systems approach" in activating techno-potential. Less