While innovation has increasingly become a collaborative effort, there is little consensus in research about what types of team configurations might be the most useful for creating breakthrough innovations. Do teams need to include inventors with knowledge breadth for recombination or do they need inventors with knowledge depth for identifying anomalies? Do teams need overlapping knowledge to integrate insights from diverse areas or does this redundancy hamper innovation by creating inefficiencies? In this article, we offer evidence that the answers to these questions may depend on the characteristics of the technologies. Focusing on the degree of modularity and the breadth of application in patent data, we identify empirical patterns suggesting that differing team configurations are associated with different technological domains.

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组织创新：对创新团队配置的权变观点

尽管创新已越来越成为一种协作性的工作，但是对于哪种类型的团队配置对于创建突破性创新可能最有用的研究却几乎没有共识。团队是否需要包括知识广度的发明人进行重组，还是需要知识渊博的发明人来识别异常？团队是否需要重叠的知识来整合来自不同领域的见解，或者这种冗余是否会因效率低下而阻碍创新？在本文中，我们提供了证据，这些问题的答案可能取决于技术的特征。着眼于模块化程度和专利数据中应用的广度，我们确定了经验模式，表明不同的团队配置与不同的技术领域相关联。