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

本文探讨了技术潜力概念在技术型企业中的意义和局限性。技术潜力是企业投入到企业内部或外部的研发支出的折旧存量，是衡量企业潜在技术能力的指标之一。我们主要关注的是对技术型企业的技术潜在能力的识别。由于企业的各种因素原则上最终直接或间接地与企业的最终绩效相关，我们发现很难将对企业的技术贡献（因素）与其他贡献（因素）准确区分开来。一种传统的方法是采用TFP（全要素生产率）的概念。然而，作为衡量企业潜在技术能力的指标，TFP存在一些不足，技术潜力的提出是为了克服TFP的这些不足。由于技术潜力股是一种股票概念，我们必须注意它的两个特点；时间滞后和折旧。也就是说，研发流需要一定的时间（即等待期）才能积累成库存并结出果实。此外，随着时间的推移，它必然会失去新鲜感和价值。一方面，技术潜力反映了生产的各个方面，如劳动和资本，当它有助于生产面向商业的产出时。另一方面，它也提供非商业导向的产出，如研究论文、报告和专门知识。然而，技术潜力确实只衡量用于技术改进的货币投资的投入方面。在现实中，更多的货币投入研发活动并不一定导致更高的创新概率。为了以更“准确”的方式识别企业的潜在技术能力，我们引入了另一个概念，即管理潜力库，将技术潜力与“真正的”潜在技术能力联系起来。储层是各个管理潜力的支撑和连接平台。我们认为，这种管理潜能的蓄水池就是组织智慧。水库本质上与“人件”相关，包括人类网络形成和知识共享信息系统。我们建议所谓的“软系统方法”在激活技术潜能方面发挥作用。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