Technology Alliances Based On Inter-organizational Learning And Innovation Performance Relationship Research

With the expand of the market scope,diversification of customers demand predilection and indistinct of industry boundary,the competition among enterprises has a great change,the importance of innovators' horizontal and vertical communication increases quickly,isolated innovator and enterprise can no longer follow the step of technology innovation.Traditional individual competition was already replaced by collective allianced competition,co-competition occurred as a new competition pattern.As a new technology cooperation model,technology alliance has become a new mode of technology innovation,especially in technology intense industries,cooperation research and new product development etc.not only become the necessary way of industry development,but also brings high level knowledge exchange,technology transfer and innovation improvement.With the development of science and technology,biotechnology industry as a representative of technology intensive industry,technology cooperation and dependent has replaced technology self-support.Taking advantage of product development facilities or counterpart's market channels is the main factor of biotechnology enterprises actively looking for partners to build technology alliance.Though alliance has much more advantages over individual enterprise,high failure rate is the most serious problem,one of the fundamental reason is the scarce of learning and communication between alliance partners.Therefore,solve the problem of how to improve innovation performance through inter-organizational learning has strategic actual meaning.After definite research background and aims,the author puts forwards the following problems:how is the development status of biotechnology alliance;what's the effects between inter-organizational learning and innovation performance;which factors in the technology alliance affect the inter-organizational learning,how can these factors influence innovation performance of enterprise in technology alliance, etc..In order to solve these problems,based on literature research,the author implements research through field investigations and interviews more than twenty enterprises located in Zhejiang,Jiangsu and Shanghai,and a big-sample questionnaire investigation.With typical case study,mathematic statistic and SEM model,the main contents and results of this research are listed as follows: Firstly,utilizing existing theory of technology alliance,organizational learning and innovation,together with case study of Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Co.Ltd, the author analyzed the mechanism of inter-organizational learning in technology alliance and enterprise's innovation performance,based on such analysis,the author put forward the theory concept model of inter-organizational learning in technology alliance and enterprise's innovation performance.Secondly,through the questionnaire investigation on random sampling of biotechnology enterprises,this thesis makes empirical study on acquired sampling data,analyzes the nowadays status of biotechnology technology alliances.We find that:nowadays most of the biotechnology enterprises have alliances with other enterprises,universities and research institutes.Though biotechnology industry is technology intensive,their R&D input is rather low,that's why so many biotechnology enterprises want to establish alliances with other units,they wish to take advantage of partners' resources to get win-win result.Thirdly,Structural Equation Modeling(SEM) and classical statistic analysis are used to discuss the mechanism of inter-organizational learning in technology alliance and enterprise's innovation performance.The results show that:knowledge share, knowledge transfer and absorption,knowledge integration and application can facilitate innovation performance significantly;meanwhile,the three phases of inter-organizational learning are affected by the characteristics of the enterprise in technology alliance,the characteristics of the allianced partner and the closeness level between them,and the management level of the alliance.Therefore,when enterprises want to build alliances with others,they should in one hand set up their own images, on the other hand,they should choose good cooperation partners.Fourthly,through variance analysis,the thesis expounds several factors' influence on innovation performance,such as different alliance partner and different alliance mode.The results show that:different firm-scale,different alliance status, different alliance duration time,different closeness relationship all have prominent discrepancy to enterprise innovation performance.But different alliance partner, different governance structure,different property right all have no prominent discrepancy to enterprise innovation performance.That means when choosing alliance partners,enterprises should pay more attention to the cooperation details,such as duration time,alliance position and dose relationship,only when favorable communication system is built,consistent understanding is achieved,can allianced partners solve the problems occurred and acquire win-win result.This research enriches and perfects the theory of inter-organizational learning and makes the theory of technology alliance more systematic.And it also gives scientific and exercisable directions for enterprises to take good use of technology alliance to improve its innovation performance.