Research On Distributed R&D Networks

An important form of economic globalization is global production system and sales system established by multinational corporations (MNCs), and this corresponds to a growing number of R&D institutions of MNCs will no longer be concentrated in just a few home and professional markets, but R&D institutions will be distributed in different regions, building distributed R&D network to meet local market needs. Facing the fierce market competition, to maintain and enhance their competitiveness, especially to raise R&D capabilities, shorten product research and development cycles, bring new products to market quickly, many companies try to conduct R&D cooperation, in order to reduce R & D costs and R&D risk. Meanwhile, the high-tech industry has become a vital force in economic development, to promote its rapid development and enhance regional R&D capability, government is actively leading companies and universities, research institutes to establish cooperative R&D network, to support local economic development. So companies are facing a serious problem how to effectively distribute R&D resources, such as R&D personnel, R&D funding, R&D projects and R&D institutions. At the same time complex networks such as small-world network, scale-free networks, are the study fields many scholars are exploring in including physicists and mathematician. What features of R&D network can be more effective in promoting R&D capability; this is the study direction of this dissertation.Distributed R&D network is organizational system linking among organizations with R&D institutions, R&D personnel as network node through such forms as R&D cooperation, information flow, etc. It is network formed R&D resources as the node, dispersing in a different time, place and project through communication as information flow. Distributed R&D network can be described as distributed R&D network of institutions, distributed R&D projects network, R&D achievements networks.This study is done according to sequence of group R & D networks, enterpriser R&D networks and institution R & D networks. Based on the definition of distributed R&D network, the motivation and factors of distributed R&D network constructing were analyzed and a model was built on selecting distributed R & D network nodes. The enterprise R&D networks and research institutions R&D networks were analyzed to determine the critical network nodes such as important R&D personnel, R & D projects and R&D team or group with 2-mode network analysis. The characteristic path length and clustering coefficient indicators were calculated, the results show that the team R&D network has the small-world network characteristics, also the R&D network is analyzed to judge if it has scale-free network characteristics. The estimation methods and results of the power-law index are described to the network meeting the power-law distribution. The system dynamics model on R&D network technological economics system of high-tech Zone was established to determine the elements of R&D network influencing the product sales revenue of high-tech zone, and suggestions to promote the development of high-tech zones are put forward to.