| It is a core strategy of our country in the next ten years to establish an innovative country, in line with which to improve the efficiency and benefit of knowledge innovation is a must. Industry-University-Institute (IUI) cooperation project is one of the effective ways to achieve these goals. In China, as such projects are cross organizational, it is of great difficulty to establish a coordination mechanism of high efficiency among organizations involved, without which it is impossible to effectively coordinate and utilize resources. As a result, IUI cooperation projects are of high failure rate, and the speed and effect of knowledge innovation will inevitably be influenced. These problems are beyond the research range of project management. On this occasion, IUI cooperation project management is a more effective approach to solve the problem. Therefore, this thesis will figure out the risk factors of IUI cooperation project management through empirical analysis, disclose the evolution law of the social network structure of the project against management risk factors using simulation technique, and put forward the management strategy and advice accordingly, which is of great significance in reducing the management risk of a IUI cooperation project and ensuring its success.This thesis conducts the research on the management risk of IUI cooperation project through the angle of the evolution of social network structure with its main part divided into three parts:Part one, namely Chapter1and Chapter2, gives a retrospect of relevant researches on IUI cooperation project, analyses the limitations and shortcomings of current researches, and finds out that relevant researches on the management risk of IUI cooperation project at present have ignored the management risk caused by structure evolution after the project has been embedded in social network structure. Based on these viewpoints, this thesis regards IUI cooperation project as a social network formed by numerous participants with enterprises, institutions of higher learning or scientific research institutions and their intermediary organs as its core based on trust relationship, whose management risk mainly comes from the network structural risk caused by the change of the social network structure of the project. Therefore, the thesis defines the research problem as how to analyze the social network structural risk of IUI cooperation project. This part also gives an overview of relevant researches on IUI cooperation project, project management, social network analysis and etc. to lay a theoretical support for the research in the main body of the thesis.Part2, namely Chapter3, gives an empirical analysis of the risk factors of IUI cooperation project management. On the basis of having a retrospect of relevant research literature, this part gives an overview of the risk factors of IUI cooperation project management in three aspects, namely participants, cooperative process and cooperative environment of the project, extracts and defines the success indicators of the project management on the basis of the concept and research achievements of IUI cooperation project management, and makes the design of experiment in accordance with all the result. This part extracts the risk factors of IUI cooperation project management through questionnaire survey and factor analysis, and tests the relevance between risk factors of IUI cooperation project management and success of project management adopting the analysis method of multiple regressions. The research conclusions of this part, functioning as a connecting link between the preceding and the following, give a deep analysis and scientific verification of the research questions put forward in the first part, and clarify and define the research contents of Part3.Part3, namely Chapter4, Chapter5and Chapter6, analyzes the evolution law of social network structural risk of the IUI cooperation project. On the basis of a theoretical analysis of the risk factors of IUI cooperation project management, this part emulates and analyzes the influence process and mechanism of action of the evolution of social network structure against the risk factors of IUI cooperation project management with MATLAB. By analyzing the result, this part demonstrates the evolution law of the risk factors of IUI cooperation project management when the social network structure of the project changes, and put forward the IUI cooperation project management strategy and advice based on the evolution law, laying down theoretical support and practice guidelines for reducing the management risk of the IUI cooperation project and ensuring its success.This thesis mainly researches on the management risk of IUI cooperation project focusing on the influence of the evolution of the social network structure of the project on the risk factors of IUI cooperation project management. This thesis analyzes the influence process utilizing empirical analysis and simulation technique. The main research conclusions are as follows:1. The management risk of IUI cooperation project mainly comes from four key factors, namely trust mechanism, knowledge diffusion process, project cooperation relationship and cooperation strategy.This thesis has analyzed the risk factors of IUI cooperation project. The research demonstrates that the risk factors mainly focus on four key factors, namely trust mechanism, knowledge diffusion process, project cooperation relationship and cooperation strategy. At the same time, the thesis has tested the relevance between these four factors and the success of project management through multiple regression analysis. The test result show that the four factors, except for knowledge diffusion process, have a positive influence on the success of micro management, macro management and project management, while the knowledge diffusion process also has a positive influence on the success of both micro management and project management but its influence on the success of macro management is weak. The above research results indicate that to ensure the success of IUI cooperation project management, more stress should be put on the construction of the environment of IUI cooperation project management besides the scope of project management.2. Among the risk factors of IUI cooperation project management, the trust mechanism tend to conform with the non-linear evolution law with the change of the properties of personal relationship in the social network structure of IUI cooperation project.The simulation result indicates that the trust state among the participants of IUI cooperation project get improved when the direct administrative intervention of the government on the enterprises, institutions of higher learning, scientific research institutions and their intermediary organs is reduced and the relatively independent operation mode of the project participants is maintained, and that with the influence of institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions enhanced, trust on the government of the project participants in the IUI cooperation project can rapidly arrive at a stable state. In particular, even though institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions have great influence, their own trust state has not changed much. This shows that the trust on research in IUI cooperation project mainly comes from institutional trust and process trust while well-known experts or scientific research institutions cannot help strengthen trust among the participants of IUI cooperation project nor ensure that the goal of the project is achieved; rather, the only guarantee that the value of the project is realized lies in a good project management environment. As enterprises and institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions hold different goals, the trust state of other participants of IUI cooperation project on them differ, which suggests that in a IUI cooperation project, once the participants hold different views towards the goal or value of the project on cognition and judgment, several groups may emerge in the project, which boast high trust state internally while the trust state between different groups is comparatively low, and with differences on goal gradually increase, groups with same values may retreat from the project.3. Trust, intention of diffusion and influence of the participants of IUI cooperation project and the status of the diffuser have a great influence on the knowledge diffusion process in the management risk of IUI cooperation project.The simulation result indicates that in the knowledge diffusion process, trust, intention of diffusion and influence of the participants of IUI cooperation project are in positive correlation with the mean velocity of knowledge diffusion. That is to say, when the trust among the participants of IUI cooperation project, and the intention and influence of knowledge diffusers increase, implicit knowledge diffuses more rapidly among the project participants. The status of the diffuser of initial knowledge has a great impact on the quantity and velocity of knowledge diffusion. In the knowledge diffusion process of IUI cooperation project, when the possibility for knowledge diffusers to become core members of the project is greater, the amount of implicit knowledge received by project participants is greater. At the same time, knowledge diffusion velocity of the project increases. When the knowledge level of IUI cooperation project reaches a certain scale, there exists a maximum value for the instantaneous velocity of knowledge diffusion in the project, namely an optimal knowledge diffusion scale. With the instantaneous velocity of knowledge diffusion in the project reaching the maximum value, the instantaneous velocity of knowledge diffusion begins to decline in downtrend, which indicates that only with collaboration, training and other approaches can the knowledge level of IUI cooperation project reach a certain threshold value to realize high speed diffusion of implicit knowledge, and that the periphery of IUI cooperation project is to the disadvantage of the absorption and utilization of implicit knowledge outside the project.4. The variation of the cooperative relationship factor in the management risk of IUI cooperation project with the change of the cooperative strategy under the complex features of the social network structure of different projects conforms with different dynamic evolution laws.In the social network structure of IUI cooperation project featured WS small world, with the increasingly enlargement of degree of average network node and decrease of network'average path length, the clustering coefficient is continuously increasing. This shows that with an increasing number of cooperation among the participants of IUI cooperation project, internal cliques tend to form the participants. At the same time, the decrease of network'average path length contribute to proceeding of internal communication and knowledge diffusion, especially the spread and diffusion of tacit knowledge. The cooperation relationship of IUI cooperation project will show different changing regulations under different game strategies. If take WSLS strategy, the efficiency is high and the cooperation number of participants can be increased constantly, which could increase the proportion of cooperation relationship. Though taking TFT strategy can also achieve relevant high efficiency, it leads to opposite effects comparing with WSLS strategy.In the social network of IUI cooperation project with BA scale-free characteristic, WSLS has a relevant bad effect on promoting the IUI cooperation project to achieve a stable cooperative relationship quickly. At the same time, the cooperation relationship of IUI cooperation project gets different degrees of improvement with the implement of the project. However, affected by the original cooperation proportion, the ratio difference of final stable project cooperation relationship is bigger. The higher original cooperation proportion leads to higher cooperation relationship ratio, while the lower causes lower ratio. Under TFT strategy, the ratio shows a rapidly decline trend. With the increase of the original cooperation proportion, the ratio of declines faster and faster, but the relative increase rate does not enhance obviously. The above results show that during the initialing phrase of IUI cooperation project, if the cooperation relationship of project stakeholders of core interests is weaker, taking active punishments can realize the establishment of cooperation relationship quickly. Later, with the gradual expanding of the project' scale, the management strategy that is encouraging and stimulating cooperation should be carried out actively in order to accelerate the building of cooperation relationship to guarantee the realization of the project'cooperative effects and goal.This thesis mainly researches on the management risk of IUI cooperation project and regards that relevant researches on the management risk of IUI cooperation project at present have ignored the management risk caused by structure evolution after the project has been embedded in social network structure. Therefore, this thesis imitates the above influence process using emulation technique and puts forward the management strategy and advice accordingly on the basis of evolution law. The main research creativity is the following three aspects.1. Extending the research angle of the management risk of IUI cooperation project.According to embedding theory of Mark Granovetter, IUI cooperation project can realize its function and value only when it is embedded in social network structure. Therefore, the management risk of the project lies not only in attribute risk. This thesis regards that research should be conducted from the relationship risk perspective. IUI cooperation project is a social network consisted of project stakeholders. The management risk results from the social network structural risk which comes from the project'social network structural changes. Researching on the influence and effect laws of social network evolution of the project on the management risk is this thesis' key point and new exploration from the relationship risk perspective.2. Identifying the management risk of IUI cooperation project.Analysis of the risk factors of IUI cooperation project management is one of core research elements and also a hot point. But this kind of research is relatively few and still remains at the exploratory stage. The minority research achievements show that the management research has formed an approach making unifying analysis process iterative model the main line. According to above thinking, utilizing empirical analysis, this thesis analyzes the management risk elements which need to be cleared nowadays, and refines and summarizes four critical management risk factors, namely trust mechanism, knowledge diffusion process, project cooperation relationship and cooperation strategy. These provide research statistics and basis for exploring management risk' mechanism of action and are also this thesis main achievement in the management risk research of the project.3. Probing into the dynamic evolution laws of the social network structural risk of IUI cooperation project.Mechanism of action of IUI cooperation project's management risk has always been the main research content for scholars. As most of present researches concentrate on personal property risk, present research thinking assumes that university industry cooperation is always in a relatively stable state. This thesis regards that the IUI cooperation project's management risk is result from social network structural changes of the project. Therefore, this thesis builds and imitates the dynamic evolution process of the project's social network structure using emulation technique. From this observe and measure the changing regularity of management risk and reveal the project's mechanism of action. Imitation results show that emulation technique has adaptability and feasibility in the research on dynamic evolution of social network structure. Research results reveal the dynamic changing regularity and mechanism of action of the project' management risk under the social network structural evolution. This makes up the weakness of present static research on action mechanism of management risk, providing important research thinking and approach for later relative research.This thesis just conducts a study on relationship risk of IUI cooperation project' management risk. As one of the management risk, property risk has some relevance with relationship risk to some extent. In the successive research, these two kinds of risk will be analyzed as a whole systematically, which will play a positive role in comprehensive understanding and lower management risk of IUI cooperation project. Meanwhile, the diversity of management risk in different scales, industries and types of IUI cooperation project should be noticed. In the following studies, the research should be directed at the diversity mentioned above to further improve the efficiency and benefit of knowledge innovation on the whole by perfecting IUI cooperation project...
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