Creating Innovative Products: The Role of Existing Knowledge

创造创新产品：现有知识的作用

• 批准号: 0423646
• 负责人: Riitta Katila
• 金额: $ 26.74万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-01-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0423646&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Innovative; Products; Role; Existing

This research studies organizations' exploitation of existing knowledge to promote innovation, with a long-term research goal to understand how existing knowledge can improve the survival and success of firms and industries. Theories on organizational evolution are used as a basis for the study. Three sequential methods-case study, longitudinal archival study and a multi-industry survey-will be used to examine the research questions. The organizational partners are firms in the robotics and computer hardware industries. The partners have provided access to information and people involved in both successful and unsuccessful R&D projects.The proposed research is novel in several ways. First, the study is unique theoretically, because it brings together previously disjoint literatures of product development and organizational evolution. The second distinctive contribution of this project is that it provides evidence for the value of exploiting existing knowledge. Much innovation research underestimates or neglects the potential of such knowledge, yet its impact on product innovation can be significant. Third, the project is important nationally. It promotes a better understanding of innovation and technological change, two main forces driving national growth and competitiveness.

这项研究研究组织利用现有知识来促进创新，其长期研究目标是了解现有知识如何改善企业和行业的生存和成功。组织演化理论被用作该研究的基础。将使用三种连续方法——案例研究、纵向档案研究和多行业调查——来检验研究问题。组织合作伙伴是机器人和计算机硬件行业的公司。合作伙伴提供了参与成功和不成功研发项目的信息和人员。拟议的研究在几个方面都是新颖的。首先，这项研究在理论上是独一无二的，因为它汇集了以前互不相干的产品开发和组织演化文献。该项目的第二个独特贡献是它为利用现有知识的价值提供了证据。许多创新研究低估或忽视了此类知识的潜力，但它对产品创新的影响可能是巨大的。三是该项目具有国家重大意义。它促进了对创新和技术变革的更好理解，这是推动国家增长和竞争力的两大主要力量。