Research On The Mechanism Of Radical Technological Innovation On The Basis Of Tacit Knowledge Creation

Since 90 years of the 20th century, the external environment enterprises face with has been showing an increasing technology interrupt or discontinuity, and highlighs.the characteristics of global competition, knowledge-based economy. In this complex dynamic environment, sustaining technological innovation has become an key path of the company for gainng a competitive advantage, seeking survival and development.In accordance with the different intensity of innovation, technological innovation is divided into incremental innovation and radical innovation. The 90 years ago of 20th century, the technological innovation of enterprises is mainly incremental; the 90 years later of 20th century, the uncontinuous change of the technology make technological innovation of enterprises from incremental innovation to radical innovation. Radical technological innovation in companies to achieve sustained competitive advantage has played a pivotal role. However, many studies have shown that, although mature companies have the resources, experience and other important factors of the advantages, but mature companies competing with emerging business enterprises in the technology competition often fail, and lose the industrial leadership position, while new enterprises through the development of new technology into the market dominant, the phenomenon mature companies have difficulties to cross radical technology that change industry competition pattern has become one of the themes.of academic literature for a long time. Despite the innovative research successfully explains why mature companies face more difficulty in uncontinuous innovation, while new enterprises are facing difficulties to a lesser degree, but few people realize that some mature companies already know how to obtain such a innovation model. To be sure, some mature companies have adapted to uncontinuous innovation and get successfully response, but little literature on this research. Therefore, the breakthrough technological innovation researches of entewrprise, specially,the mechanism of radical technological innovation have an important theoretical and practical significance. How about mature firm to successfully deal with the discontinuity, or a breakthrough technological innovation, growing research began to focus their attention on knowledge creation and management process of the technical innovation process. The nature of technological, innovation depends on from the data, information, turn to the knowledge, technical innovation really achieves through the identification of knowledge within and outside the enterprise. The breakthrough innovation need new engineering principles and science-based knowledge, but mature companies are unfamiliar such knowledge.And while breakthrough innovations opened up new markets, but it also requires enterprises have new and different technical and business capabilities, as well as the new path to solve the problem, mature enterprises do not have these capabilities and path, it is difficult to obtain. Thus, mature companies in order to maintain and build their own sustainable competitive advantage, and must continue to create new knowledge.According to their properties and ease of acquisition and transmission, knowledge affecting the technological innovation can be divided into explicit knowledge and-tacit knowledge. The explicit knowledge can be encoded conveniently, easy to communicate and easily rivals have learned, is difficult for enterprise to form sustainable competitive advantage; while the tacit knowledge is implicit and difficult to imitate,and therefore can not easily be copied or stolen, thus is basis and source of core competence of enterprise. Really to play a leading role in technological innovation is the tacit knowledge. It is believed that hidden value to the process of innovation.The Consensus of current theories are that breakthrough innovations are often the product of deep and highly personal forms of knowledge, or breakthrough technology innovation and tacit knowledge are closely related. In any industry, if the enterprises has capacity to create a series of revolutionary products, it will have a sustainable competitive advantage. However, the improvement of products, often rely on predictable technological trajectory, but the breakthrough innovation is based on a leap of creativity and insights. On the basis of induction and analysis of the theoretical research, the questions proposed in this paper is:in a rapidly changing environment, in order to achieve sustainable competitive advantage, mature firm must move toward a breakthrough innovation from the incremental innovation, and, the tacit knowledge how to effect on the process of. breakthrough technological innovation.The previous research for relationship between knowledge and innovation and the relationship between the compentence and innovation of enterprise are an isolated study. However, the combination based on resources (tacit knowledge) theory, compentence theory and innovation theory, through the creation of tacit knowledge (transfer and conversion), dynamic capabilities of company (core compentence) as well as breakthrough technologies into a unified analytical framework for a study, this paper examine breakthrough technological innovation mechanism based on the creation of tacit knowledge. Thus, it provide a new vision for explaining the source of sustainable competitive advantage of enterprise. The innovative work can be summarized as follows:First, the definition of operation dimension about tacit knowledge content in four level:personal, group, organization, outside organization. The existing literature shows that tacit knowledge and breakthrough technological innovation are closely related to, but did not explan the content and other issues of tacit knowledge about breakthrough technological innovation in-depth. Based on the reading of literature, this paper explore the operation dimensions of the tacit knowledge content.Second, the knowledge transfer and transformation dimensions distinction of the breakthrough technology innovation. The creation of tacit knowledge of breakthrough technological innovation will be divided into tacit knowledge transfer dimension and tacit knowledge conversion dimension, that clarify concepts and relations between the current knowledge transfer, knowledge conversion, as well as knowledge creation, them are often in the confusion.Third, research about the process and model of radical(breakthrough) technological innovation based on the perspective of tacit knowledge creation. While a lot of theoretical research on technological innovations, the research about how to happens technological innovation process is still a black box. For knowledge's effection on technical innovation, the previous research emphasize their promotion effection on breakthrough technological innovation. However, how to effect is not very clear. This article combine the creation of tacit knowledge with process of breakthrough technological innovation, at same time, with knowledge creation capacity and absorbing capacity for promoting variables, and study the mechanism of breakthrough technological innovation process, and on basis of above research, the paper suggest an breakthrough technological innovation process model.