TIM Based Research On The Total Synergy Mechanism Of All The Innovation Agents During Innovation Process

One of the most important problems Chines enterprises facing during the process of technological innovation is that pays too much attation to technological agents, while ignores the total synergy between technology and un-technological agents to some extent.This paper firstly brings forward the research issues according to the "innovation dilemma" which many Chinese enterprises facing currently. Then, from the theoretical perspectives of innovation management, complex theory and innovation system, academic literatures on synergy in innovation manageent are reviewed, and some limitations in current academic researches are pointed out. Based on literature review of key factors influencing innovation performance, this part also refines six key agents, namely strategy, technology, market, culture, institution and organization agent. Based on it, the third chapter introduces systematically the theoretical framework of the new paradigm of Total Innovation Management (TIM), which sets the theoretic background for this esearch. In the fourth chapter, research plan and methodology for this paper are introduced, and some hypotheses are brought forward.Chapter five to eight are the core parts of this paper. Based on the view of TIM, theses chapters focus on study of total synergy mechanisms of all innovation eagents, mainly including the process of total synergy, the influencing factors, and approaches of total synergy. What's more, the relation between total synergy of innovation agents and innovation performance, and the qualitative measurement on the degree of total synergy (DTS) are explored by empirical studies. During these studies, a cross-disipline methodology is adopted, which include theory of innovation management, theory of complexity, and theory of systems scencies, etc.Main conclusions of this research are as follows:1) Technology, market, strategy, culture, institution and organization are the key agents which impacts the innovation performance of the enterprise. To gain better innovation performance, enterprises should promote total synergy of these six key agents under the paradigm of TIM;2) The five-phase process model of total synergy, named C³IS is brought forward in this paper, contact/communication, competition/conflict, cooperation, integration and synergy as general five phases in the process of enterprise's technology innovation;3 ) Based on literature review and the result of empirical research from more than 100 large and middle Chinese enterprises, some important factors are summaried , and approaches to promot the total synergy of all innovation agents are recommended ;4) Synergy betweentechnology and every non-technology agent innovation has strong positive corelation to the degree of total synergy, among which synergy between technology and market agent contributes most, following is between technology and institution agent, technology and organization agent, technology and strategy agent, and the synergy between technology and culture agent contributes least;The quantitative relations (regression equation) between them are: degree of total synergy= synergy between technology and organization agent ×0.16+ synergy between technology and institution agent ×0.38+synergy between technology and market agent × 0.46-2.70.5) The degree of total synergy among all innovation agents has positive corelations toinnovation performance, including notable impact on innovation efficiency (R&D speed, the rate of new product, the proportion of commercialized projects) and innovation effect (the number of patents applied per year, new products applied per year, innovative projects per ycar),but don't find enough evidence of impact on innovation cost and cycle;The quantitative relations (regression equation) between degree of total synergy and innovation performance are:a.innovation efficiency = degree of total synergy × 0.41. 1)R&D speed= degree of total synergy × 0.42+3.01 2)Rate of new products in output= degree of total synergy X 0.42+3.01 3)Rate of suc...