Knowledge-based Network Research Team Knowledge And Task Management

The team had already become the important organization pattern of research activities at present, on the grounds of statistics data, in the beginning 25 years of Nobel Prize setted up, the cooperative study projects being rewarded accounted for 41% of all. In the second 25 years, the data rose to 65%; in the third 25, the data had already reached 75% of all. So we can say that the research activities had already been individual behavior no longer, and become collective behavior of research teams.Research teams are the main organizations undertaking the important national research projects, so that it is very urgent for us to study how to reinforce the knowledge and task management of research teams for making the most use of the knowledge resource of it, which will help the research teams to get good achievement. Therefore, this paper will study on the knowledge and task management of research teams from the aspect of knowledge resource supply and demand, which the research teams as the supplyers will be how to match the need of research task.Undoutedly the research activities of the individuals in the teams will effect the process of matching between the knowledge supplying and need heavily.Obviously, the mission of a research team is not only completing tasks, but also training skilled personnel and accumulating knowledge. That the skilled training and knowledge accumulation is throughout the whole research prosesses of the research tasks, so we need to study the knowledge innovation activities of researchers in the condition of research teams. To be specific, we study the knowledge cooperation activities between the members in a team based on the knowledge communication and discussion in the operations of the projects. As the research tasks had become difficult more and more, knowledge cooperation activities through discussion and communication would become very common. Therefore, in this paper, we have deeply investigated some important factors impacting the efficiency of knowledge cooperation activities within a research team. Then we have done relatively quantitative research based on knowledge network through building the models that analysis the allocation of team tasks based on knowledge cooperation activities between the members in research teams, and finally resolved the solutions to this model. The main conclusions of this paper are as follows:Firstly, if the incentive of task k for the research member I to cooperate with the research member j is high enough to compensate the opportunity cost of the knowledge cooperation extra time, in the other word if the research member I can gain a lot of knowledges and skills when he cooperated with the research member j in the task K, the research member i will prefer to work together to complete the task K with the research member j, vice versa.Secondly, if the total marginal utility of the marginal contribution made by the research members I and j during the cooperations with each other in the task K is equal to the total opportunity cost of the research members I and j, then the research members I and j will incline to cooperation with each other towards the completing the task k.Thirdly,for the task k, when the difference of opportunity costs of the knowledge cooperation extra times between research members I and j equals the difference of task incentives of cooperation with each other between the research members j and i, the reserch members I and j will incline to cooperation with each other towards the completing the task k. in the other word, the research member who have the more opportunity cost, will have the higher marginal utility and the lower task incentive.Because the research member with the less opportunity cost have the less knowledge materials,so he will be encourage higher in the cooperation with the other member in the task K.In addition, if two cooperators with the task K would be sharing the prestige equally, the research member with lower marginal utility must contribute more time in the cooperation, so that compensate his or her achievement incentive in the task K.Fourthly,Only when the marginal utility of knowledge cooperation between the research members I and j, that is synergetic incentive, is strong enough and greater than the individual working on his or her own,the research member I and j will be willing to cooperate with each other in the task K. If the synergetic incentive between the research member I and j is not enough, then the research members I and j will give up cooperating with each other in the task K. In the case of no cooperations, the research members working independently will always select the task with higher marginal utility to oneself. In other words, when the task incentive (sum of the achievement incentive and the material reward with the task) is extremely low, there will be not only no person being willing to participate in the cooperations activities of the task, but also no person being ready to bear the task on one's own. This will lead to no person bearing the task at last, and then influence the accomplishment of the whole research project.Finally,To a selected task with consumption of more synergetic time, it must be able to produce a big enough marginal utility to compensate the extra time and energy paid by the research members who participate in the cooperation with the task,and then this task will be selected by cooperators. Otherwise, no one will be ready to participate in the cooperation of this task.The thesis makes several contributions on the basis of the theoretical and empirical research.First of all, from the perspective of knowledge supply and demand matching, we have investigated how to manage the dynamic process of the task assignment of research teams based on the analysis of task incentives and knowledge cooperation activities between the research members in research teams.Secondly, this paper research the knowledge cooperation between the research members in research teams.we argued that the willings and possibilities of knowledge cooperation between the research members in research teams based on the knowledge diversity of the research members owned in research teams.Thirdly, we have studied how to assign the tasks during the research members in research teams by using the relatively quantitative modeling method.In this model, knowledge have been introducing to study the task management of research teams as a important parameter.Finally, we have extended the existed model of knowledge network. In this thesis, we have built the model of knowledge super-network about the task, knowledge and personnel of research teams, and then we have introduced some new methods to analyse the knowledge network of research teams. In the paper, we have analyzed the knowledge similarity degree between the research members, innovation efficiencies of the research members and the influence of the lossing of the key knowledges in a research team by using the method proposed by the shcolars in the past to analyze the degree about knowledge nework nodes. Regarding the healthy or growth of a network, the former scholar often carried on the analysis through the introduction of exterior resources and took hypothetical analysis as an exogenous strength. However, in our study of knowledge super-network about task, knowledge and personnel of resaerch teams, the demand for new knowledge of the task has become a. inherent strength that push the knowledge network becoming large more and more.