Knowledge Sharing in Competitive Innovation Groups Agent-based Simulations and Evidences from University Research Teams

摘要：

　　We model the knowledge sharing dilemma in competitive innovation groups.Sharing knowledge can enhance the chance of innovation success.However, competition among members erodes their incentive to cooperate.By agent-based simulations, we find a U-shaped relationship between group innovation capability and knowledge sharing level.Sharing level is high when innovation capability is low, decreases as capability rises, and increases again as capability continues rising.This result is consistent with the empirical evidences from the research teams of Chinese universities, where the co-authorship among graduate students in the same team (an indicator for knowledge sharing level) firstly decreases and then increases as the publication number (an indicator for innovation capability) goes up.This knowledge sharing inadequacy of middle-capability is attributed to the uncertainty of successful innovation and intragroup competition.

关键词： knowledge sharing competition innovation agent-based simulation

作者: YU Tongkui QIAN Chen

作者单位: School of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第一届信息获取与知识服务国际会议暨第六届搜索行为与用户认知研讨会

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 25-29

在线出版日期: 2014-10-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）