Research On Enterprises' Technological Learning In R & D Alliances

Promoting enterprises' technological learning by way of R&D alliances, is the universal experience of various developed countries in propelling technology progress and economy development. Along with China's development and technology advancement, R&D alliance, which is the effective mode of technological innovation in developed countries, gradually becomes prevalent in China. In the construction of Chinese enterprise-oriented technological innovation system, strengthening the research into enterprises* technological learning by way of R&D alliances has great theoretical and empirical significance. The thesis divides into eight chapters, and the content of each chapter is shown as follows.The first chapter is introduction, which presents the research background, brings forward the research questions, explaines the research significance, and summarizes the current research situation. Based on the above, the author draws up analytical framework, research ideas and approaches of the full text.The second chapter probes into the fundamentals of technological learning in R&D alliances, comprehensively utilize the theory of strategic alliance, organizational learning, knowledge management, resource reliance, transaction cost, social capital, and game theory. This chapter provides the theoretical basis for the whole research.The third chapter researches into the mechanisms of enterprises' technological learning in R&D alliances. The connotation, the characteristics, and the principles of technological learning in R&D alliances are expounded. The objects, the content, and the level of technological learning in R&D alliances are analyzed. The motivation mechanism, influence mechanism, barrier mechanism, operational mechanism and management mechanism of technological learning in R&D alliances are discussed.The fourth chapter expatiates the co-opetitive effect of technological learning in R&D alliances, from the angle of transaction cost theory, resource-based theory, and game theory. The author analyzes the types and determining factors of the co-opetitive relationship. And taking bilateral alliance as an example, the author builds a co-opetitive game model of technology sharing and technology protection, to analyze the strategy choice under different trust level, and then analyzes the overall effect to the alliance as a whole.The fifth chapter analyzes the modes of technological learning in R&D alliances. The author proposes three modes respectively based on R&D platform, R&D project, and R&D personnel, analyzes the concrete operating ways of each mode, and gives corresponding case analysis.The sixth chapter proposes a M-SECI model of technological learning in R&D alliances, with the illumination of Nonaka's SECI model. The M-SECI model explains the knowledge sharing, knowledge exchange, knowledge creation, and knowledge innovation in cross-organizational learning. The author illustrates those four elements, and discusses the linkage between them. Finally, a rough set process model is constructed to describe the M-SECI model, and corresponding example is given.The seventh chapter is the demonstration of technological learning in Chinese R&D alliances. The author comprehensively collects various cases of technological learning in Chinese R&D alliances, and constitutes a databank of the cases. Macroscopic induction analysis and statistical analysis are carried on; collective and representative case analysis are launched; questionnaire surveys and spot interviews are used for multi-dimensional statistical analysis and factor interdependence analysis.The eighth chapter is the summary and the expectation for further research.