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Research on the Formation and Evolution Mechanism of Cooperation Network of Chinese Creative Research Group——Case Study of Excellent Creative Research Group in the Perspective of Scientific Community

Gao Jie, Ding Yunlong, Zheng Zuolong   

  1. School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001
  • Received:2017-03-15 Online:2018-03-28 Published:2018-03-26

Abstract:

"Structural anomie" and "inefficient cooperation" are two problems confronting some teams in the operation of Creative Research Group. The starting point of understanding and solving these problems is to open the "black box" of Creative Research Group cooperation network, and reveal its evolution process and mechanism from the static structure level and the dynamic evolution level. Based on the scientific community under the spontaneous order, the cooperation network of Creative Research Group which is high level basic research and scientific and technological innovation team with Chinese characteristics is regarded as a special kind of scientific community, and its evolution process is summarized as "three stages and two turning points":the first is the stage of "invisible college"——after the "turning point of project approval" to enter into the stage of "scientific innovation team"——after the "turning point of transition" to enter into the stage of "mixed academic community"; Creative Research Group translates into the regular project team which has clear boundaries, from loose and spontaneous academic group which has cooperation basis, and finally, based on community the group deepens and expands into the "mixed academic community", and experiences an cooperation network evolution process of "fuzzy——clear-extended"; combined with the theory of team life-cycle and other organization and management theories, and through the analysis of the evolution mechanism of the group network and the exploratory case analysis of an excellent group, the "black box" of cooperation and development is initially opened, and the important nodes and stage divisions are dismantled from the perspective of organizational evolution, which has important significance for problem solving, reasonable development and effective governance of Creative Research Group.

Key words: Creative Research Group, cooperation network, spontaneous order, scientific community, knowledge map