| In the21st century, Chinese companies face the challenge of economic globaliza-tion, organization modular and knowledge capitalization, with the domestic and for-eign enterprises or organizations constitute knowledge alliance is imminent. The ulti-mate objective of knowledge alliance is formed "1+1>2" synergy effect in the league. But due to various reasons such as enterprise interior, the knowledge alliance often can’t reach its formed purpose, or appear the condition of disintegration in the union running middle, so should design incentive mechanism. All the subject of knowledge alliance is interconnected, one change makes all change, so will jointly formulate incentive mechanism for the knowledge subject of the league, through knowledge interaction, sharing, fusion and creation, realize knowledge innovation, form synergies, namely knowledge alliance incentive synergy. The knowledge bodies of alliance form a cooperative network structure, its essence is a social network, so can use of social network analysis, analysis the knowledge alliance. According to the analysis result find the problem of the knowledge coordination in alliance.This paper analyzes the knowledge alliance incentive synergy formation reason, on this basis, according to knowledge alliance theory, incentive theory, the general system theory and collaborative theory and its related theory, regard the participants of knowledge alliance as behavior subject, research the connotation and denotation of knowledge alliance incentive synergy, define the basic concepts, give the conceptual model, integrate its basic characteristics. Meanwhile, based on the knowledge of different subjects, divided the knowledge alliance into enterprises-enterprises, enterprises-research institutions, research institutions-research institution, according to the life cycle theory into brewing, compose, operation and disintegration for stages, research various types and each stage of the cooperation behaviors, integrate incentive features, give the conceptual model of knowledge alliance incentive synergy. And with the knowledge alliance between research institutions as an example for empirical research. |
