Study Of Structure And Operation Of Knowledge Supply Chain In Manufacturing Industry

With the sustained background of knowledge economy, knowledge has become a resource to keep the sustainable development and competitive edge of enterprises and it is the basis of technological innovation, productivity improvement and the capacity to meet consumer's demand. Knowledge is one of transferable production factors and the value of knowledge will be increased continuously as long as it is used effectively through the production process. The competitive power of future enterprises depends on the fact whether the company can acquire new knowledge continually and apply it to enforce the innovation of products and processes. Companies that take knowledge as strategic property into management will win more competitive edge than those that haven't realize that point yet. If the ripe experience accumulated through the material supply chain management in manufacturing industry is used within knowledge management and developed into a knowledge supply chain, the management and profit of the manufacturing business will be greatly improved.In order to offer enterprises the information and method of how to enlarge profits and improve innovation capacities , the idea of knowledge supply chain is to take full advantage of the superiority of industrial enterprises, universities and scientific research institutions, and to get them integrated and systematized. Companies are the ultimate users of the knowledge supply chain and universities, scientific research institutions and knowledge supply companies are all knowledge producers. They come to a common marketing goal and share profits through the combination of production, learning and research. The connotation of the knowledge supply chain is not the specific content of management, but to organize the separated tech-innovation phases and partners into one system and to integrate and improve the course through scientific management.The research above applies the association methods of theory analysis andpractice analysis to study the structure and operation of knowledge supply chain in manufacturing industry. It tries to approach a way to apply knowledge supply chain to knowledge management and tech-innovation by using practical-cases analysis to prove the theory on the basis of the theory research during the new phases of new type industralization against a background of knowledge economy era.