Innovation by Network: Empirical Evidence from the Software Industrial Cluster in Hangzhou
Inter-firm network has been considered as an important means for innovations. Since network types can be classified into formal and informal ones, whether these two forms of networks have the same effects on the firms innovation process is an interesting problem. Based on this point, we take knowledge as a media and investigate how network forms influence the firms innovation process. By using UCINET as a tool for the network analysis, we test our hypotheses about the relationships between network structure and knowledge flow. The results show that both explicit and tacit knowledge are key factors in the firms innovation process, however the tacit knowledge has a more weight in its contribution Our study also shows while the explicit knowledge is influenced by the formal network, the tacit knowledge flows mainly in an informal network.
Innovation Inter-firm Network Knowledge Centrality
WU Xiaobing
School of Management, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R.China
国际会议
The Fifth InternationalSymposium on Management of Technology(ISMOT07)(第五届技术与创新管理国际研讨会)
杭州
英文
89-92
2007-06-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）