The Improvement of Key Inventor Innovation Performance under the Pre-research Context: A Combined Perspective of Knowledge Network and Collaboration Network

Abstract

Abstract: Based on the pre-research context of technology replacement in the communications industry, this paper studies the relationship between key inventors' knowledge network and collaboration network combination models and their innovation performance based on knowledge base and resource-based theory, and discusses the effect of different combination models. The empirical analysis shows that the strength of the positive impact on the improvement of key R&D performance is in the order of combination mode 1 (stronger decomposition + more structural holes), combination mode 2 (stronger decomposition + less structural holes), and combination mode 3 (weaker decomposition + more structural holes). The research results consider the combination characteristics of collaboration network and knowledge network, provide new research perspectives and empirical evidence for revealing the influence mechanism of key inventors' innovation performance, and have important reference for key inventors to construct and ‘prune’ a reasonable innovation network structure.

Key words: knowledge network, collaboration network, structural hole, key inventor, pre-research

Sun Xiaoming, Liu Cai, Su Yi, Wang Yalan, Xiang Rui. The Improvement of Key Inventor Innovation Performance under the Pre-research Context: A Combined Perspective of Knowledge Network and Collaboration Network[J]. Management Review, 2023, 35(2): 135-146.

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