Research On Cooperation Innovation Among The Enterprises Based On Knowledge Management

With the Integration of world economy and the global intensifying technique competition, it is difficult for the enterprises to fight with the global competitors with different scale and strength. So, the enterprises should cooperate with others, and combine the knowledge or technology resources from different aspects. In the interest of not falling behind the competitors, rising their own adaptation and rapid reaction ability, and occupying more market share, cooperative innovation is the necessary route for the enterprises applying for outside power.Cooperative innovation among the enterprises refers to that many subjects of innovation behavior invest together, participate together, take the achievement together and share the risks together during the whole technical innovation process. Cooperative innovation among the enterprises includes long-period cooperation with strategic intent, for example, strategic technical alliance and network organizations; it also includes short-period cooperation for some special items, for example, research contract and licence agreement. The intensive cooperations refer to those with the forms of joint venture or incorporation, which belong to the same business licence. The pervasive cooperations carry out with the network organizations, which means every participant keeps its independence, but cooperates with others only within some fields or in some time, like research cooperation organization, strategic alliance and virtual organization etc.. The most common cooperation innovation goes with the communication between the enterprises, the corresponding learning and influencing will happen in many relative fields.Based on the research of forefathers, this thesis does analysis on internal operational mechanism and external game activities of cooperative innovation from knowledge management angle. The main contents are as followings: theories analysis, internal mode of cooperative innovation, external game analysis, performance evaluation, risks and precaution and government policies analysis.This thesis analyzed the mechanism of cooperative innovation based on knowledge management according to the interwork model of three aspects (knowledge management, core competence and cooperative innovation). Firstly, this thesis explained the effects of knowledge management basic elements within cooperative innovation, they are distinguishing and acquisition of knowledge, sharing and transferring of knowledge and application and innovation of knowledge. Based on that, we built a knowledge sharing and transferring model to explain its interwork. This model is a horizontal and vertical cross model. The horizontal part explains how knowledge follow within the cooperative innovation participants; and the vertical part expresses how the knowledge transforming from explicit to implicit and vise versa. This model has four stages. The first stage is knowledge sharing stage; explicit knowledge is intergrated among cooperation members. The second stage is knowledge transferring stage; explicit knowledge is transformed to implicit knowledge within the enterprises. The third one is knowledge application stage; implicit knowledge is used for the innovation program. The last one is knowledge requiring stage; lacking knowledge correspond to the innovation leads the next circulation. Secondly, according to the knowledge character of enterprises core competence, it analyzed the inter reaction between knowledge management and core competence. And then it analyzed the inter reaction between the cooperative innovation and core competence from core competence rigidity and knowledge cooperation surplus two aspects. At last this thesis gives the unitary model for the interaction among knowledge management, core competence and cooperation innovation. The process of knowledge transforming applying and innovating embodies in the strategy and innovation activities. At the same time core competence accelerates the compromising of innovation, which does good to the knowledge accumulation. So, the essence of cooperation innovation is application and extension for the enteprises'knowledge. Knowledge management, core competence and cooperation innovation react each other, they build the knowledge transforming process and promote the knowledge further accumulation. In accordance with the game theory methods this thesis analyzed the external behavior of cooperative innovation based on knowledge management. By means of cooperative and competitive bi-directional game analysis, it deeply studied on internal co-competitive character of cooperative innovation. This thesis built a game model with three participants and three action periods based on d'Aspremont's game model. In the first period, the enterprises need to decide to compete or cooperate; in the second period, the enterprises should make a decision on the research investment; in the last period, they choose the products amount and maximize the benefit. This model mainly explained some aspects'activity, for example, technology diffusing and transferring. The result we get are: knowledge diffusing is very important for the enterprises to choose coopartion innovation or not. Which strategy can help enterprise to achieve more advantage technology, the company will choose that one. During the cooperation process, the more nearly the cooperation member communicated, the less investment for innovation needed. But the enterprise who has advantage technology will invest less in R&D compare with those have no advantages. Furthermore, the thesis analyzed the cooperative innovation mode selection and benefit distribution. We find the distribution parameter depends on the core technology superiority, and when it invest more it will get more, otherwise it is nor fair to the other members.This thesis also built a relevant index system and evaluate model corresponding to the different evaluated objects. It includes 38 indexes. And we used the AHP method to confirm the index weight and used empirical example tested and verified furtherly.And then this thesis introduced various risks of cooperative innovation respectively, and according to the time schedule of cooperation it set up a risk control mechanism.It introduced foreign cooperative innovation policies, including Japan, US and EU; it further gave some suggestions for the homeland government and enterprises.