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

本研究探讨了技术潜力这一概念在科技型企业中的意义和局限性。技术潜力，即企业内部和/或外部投资的研发支出的折旧存量，被认为是衡量潜在技术能力的指标之一。我们主要关注的是识别技术型企业的技术潜力能力。由于企业的各种因素原则上最终与其最终业绩直接或间接相关，我们发现很难准确区分技术对企业的贡献(因素)和其他贡献(因素)。传统的方法是采用全要素生产率的概念，但由于全要素生产率是衡量企业潜在技术能力的指标，为了克服这些缺点，提出了技术潜力的概念。由于技术潜力是一种股票概念，我们必须注意t…更多的两个特征：时滞和折旧。也就是说，需要一定的时间(即等待期)，才能使R&D流积累为库存并取得成果。此外，随着时间的推移，它必然会失去新颖性和价值。技术潜力一方面反映了生产的各个方面，如劳动力和资本，当它有助于以商业为导向的产出的生产时。另一方面，它也用于生产非商业导向的产出，如研究论文、报告和技术诀窍。然而，技术潜力确实只衡量了旨在技术改进的货币投资的投入方面。在现实中，对研发活动进行更多的货币投资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，即管理潜力的蓄水池，将技术潜力与真正的潜在技术能力联系起来。油藏是每一种管理潜力的支撑和连接平台。我们认为，这个管理潜力的蓄水池就是组织智能。这个蓄水池本质上与包括人际网络形成和知识共享信息系统在内的“人性化软件”有关。我们建议使用所谓的“软系统方法”来激活技术潜力。较少

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