Research On Generating Dynamics Of First-class Disciplines In Innovative University Based On Knowledge Network Perspective

As the times of knowledge economic, globalization and informatization hasarrived, universities have transited from the margins to the center of our society,which have become the main knowledge center. Some research universitiesrepresented by MIT and Stanford utilized their own research accomplishments totake an initiative part in domestic and regional economic development, which havetriggered the second academic revolution and in turn promoted the developmentpatterns of innovative universities. So far, the development patterns of innovativeuniversities which integrated fundamental research, teaching and entrepreneurialinnovation are becoming the representative models of the academic community.Many countries have started to focus on the establishment of innovative universitiesand many world-famous universities have been transforming into innovativeuniversities initiatively.Since1990’s, Chinese Government had been implementing the "211project"and "985projects" successively, and had established a series of schemes andmeasures to enhance the construction of world-class universities vigorously.Although China has specifically proposed that several universities should haveachieved or approximated the criteria of world-class universities by2020, yetuniversities in China have not come up with a specific plan and have always beenexploring it actively. As the strategy of "building up an innovative country" and"revitalizing China through science and education" being proposed andimplemented, universities, which are the significant part of domestic innovationsystem and talents’ cultivation, have been making tremendous influence in themodernization process of China. The development of innovative universities hasprovided an important reference pattern for universities in China to approximate thecriteria of world-class universities. Disciplines are the body and cells of universities,and the construction of world-class universities will ultimately become the issue ofdisciplinary integration, the construction of innovative universities must focus onestablishing first-class disciplines. Therefore, the study for the generating dynamicsof first-class disciplines in innovative universities has both theoretically andpractically Significance. This paper analyzed and summarized domestic and overseas accomplishments,and introduced many theories and methods, such as the theories of social network,organizational growth and knowledge management.from the internal knowledgenetwork, external knowledge network, internal knowledge network and externalknowledge network coupling perspectives, revealed the generating dynamics offirst-class disciplines in innovative universities,and then the governance strategiesfor establishing first-class disciplines in innovative universities were presented.Firstly, this paper analyzed the evolution of university function and the maincharacteristics of universities in various types, and then summarized the typicalfeatures of innovative universities. Summed up the meaning of the definition ofdiscipline and recalled the Evolution of the disciplines in university.The coreviewpoints of social network, organizational growth and knowledge managementtheories were introduced, which provided theoretical foundation for this research.The concept of innovative universities, disciplines, first-class disciplines,generating, knowledge and knowledge network of disciplinary were defined, thenode function of external knowledge network was analyzed, and the relationshipbetween the construction of innovative universities and first-class disciplines wassummarized, revealed the generate essence of first-class disciplines in innovativeuniversities, and the research framework was proposed finally.Secondly, based on the theoretical methods of knowledge management andsocial network, integrated with the method of qualitative and quantitative analysis,the connotation and Causes of disciplinary internal knowledge network wasanalyzed, and the knowledge transmission, production and application activitieswere discussed from the perspective of disciplinary internal knowledge network.Taken the D discipline in H University as representative cases, the evolution andcharacteristic of internal knowledge networks was analyzed deeply, and thenrevealed the generating dynamics of first-class disciplines in innovative universitiesfrom the internal knowledge network perspective.a practical study on theinfluencing factors of external knowledge network in establishing first-classdisciplines of innovative universities was conducted based on dimensionalities ofexternal knowledge structural, relationship and connotations. A conceptual modelwas constructed and research hypothesis was proposed. Then a questionnaire surveywas performed and the data was collected and analyzed. Ultimately, the impact and pattern of the influencing factors presented in hypothesis was particularlydemonstrated, and based on which the model and hypothesis was inspected, and thefunction mechanism as well as realistic effect of various influencing factors wasproclaimed.Thirdly, the study framework on the generation and enovation mechanism offirst-class disciplines in innovative universities was presented. Taken the Wdisciplinary in H University as representative cases, the disciplinary evolutionprocess was analyzed according to the phases of establishment, redevelopment,revolutionary innovation and maturity and then the development patterns of thecases were summarized, the Conclusion were verified through many cases.Finally, the governance strategies for establishing first-class disciplines ininnovative universities were presented from the perspectives of internal knowledgenetwork, external knowledge network as well as internal knowledge network andexternal knowledge network coupling integrated with the current practice inestablishing first-class disciplines in innovative universities of China.