ABSTRACT

Technological competition between firms has changed from ordinary to generic technology (hereinafter, GT) innovation with the increasing complementarity and shareability of technology in the field of emerging technologies. While facing the R&D dilemmas and market failure of GT and its R&D process, here comes the question: who are contributing to the GT R&D in the process of building emerging technology knowledge systems? Using social network analysis and a patent panel dataset of 380 strategic emerging firms, our study empirically examines how patent cooperation networks influence the R&D performance of GT, and the moderating effect of alliance heterogeneity. We found that: (1) The network scale and network centrality of patent cooperation networks have a positive and significant impact on the R&D performance of GT, and the latter one shows a greater impact, while the network density of patent cooperation networks shows a negative and significant impact on the R&D performance of GT. (2) Alliance heterogeneity plays a positive moderating role between the network scale and R&D performance of GT, while the moderating effect turns to be negative between the network density/network centrality of patent cooperation networks and R&D performance of GT. Our study contributes lay a foundation for strategic decision-making and government promotion of GT R&D.

摘要

随着新兴技术领域技术互补性和共享性的增强，企业间的技术竞争已经从普通技术创新转变为通用技术（以下简称GT）创新。面对GT及其研发过程的研发困境和市场失灵，问题来了：在构建新兴技术知识体系的过程中，谁在为GT研发做出贡献？利用社交网络分析和 380 家战略性新兴企业的专利面板数据集，我们的研究实证检验了专利合作网络如何影响 GT 的研发绩效，以及联盟异质性的调节作用。我们发现：（1）专利合作网络的网络规模和网络中心性对 GT 的研发绩效具有正向且显着的影响，后者的影响更大，而专利合作网络的网络密度对GT的研发绩效有显着的负面影响。(2)联盟异质性在网络规模与GT研发绩效之间起正向调节作用，而在专利合作网络的网络密度/网络中心性与GT研发绩效之间起负调节作用。我们的研究有助于为GT研发的战略决策和政府推动奠定基础。而专利合作网络的网络密度/网络中心性与 GT 的研发绩效之间的调节作用变为负向。我们的研究有助于为GT研发的战略决策和政府推动奠定基础。而专利合作网络的网络密度/网络中心性与 GT 的研发绩效之间的调节作用变为负向。我们的研究有助于为GT研发的战略决策和政府推动奠定基础。