Study On The Knowledge Creation Process Of University-Industry Collaboration

Knowledge has become the most strategic importance resources for the enter -prises in the new century, the businesses. The report of 17th National Congress of the CPC announced that: "It will be the very crucial way to accelerate the establishment of technical innovation system which is University-Industry collaboration (U-I collaboration) based, market-oriented, relying on enterprise as the mainstay in order to strengthen national capacity for independent innovation." But the current low performance of U-I collaboration affected the improvement of the ability of independent innovation of enterprises and the motivation of the enterprises to actively participate in U-I collaboration. In this context, the research questions identified in this study focused on the process of U-I collaboration innovation: 1) the tendency of knowledge transform; 2) knowledge creation mechanisms; 3) the influence factors in the various stages of Knowledge creation process.In this study, a new theoretical framework: K-space (It is short for Knowledge Space) is developed based on three exploratory case studies. The framework is used to describe the tendency of knowledge transform and then four stages during the process of knowledge co-creation in U-I collaboration is identified: Knowledge Gain, Knowledge Digestion, Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Propagation. It is the GDSP knowledge creation theory in the process of U-I collaboration. And in view of the theory of thermodynamic analysis, the GDSP knowledge creation cycle with seven stages in the process of U-I collaboration is present: Demand Codification, Knowledge Gain, Knowledge Digestion, Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Propagation, knowledge spillover and knowledge degeneration. It is proved that the systematic knowledge (abstract explicit knowledge) in K-space would bring the greatest potential value for the enterprises based on the dissipation theory .While systematic knowledge also faces the risk of overflow, thus this study raised the value of knowledge paradox: companies the more deeper the enterprises try to make knowledge move into the region of the best value, the more risk of knowledge spillover will be taken. Based on a large sample of corporate research and statistical analysis, the results showed that: the ability of knowledge gain, knowledge digestion, knowledge-sharing, knowledge propagation were all positive effects on knowledge creation performance of the U-I collaboration. The key influence factors affecting the knowledge gain stage are: the enterprise features, inter-organizational cooperation context, inter-organizational communication context, knowledge output capability of University; The key influence factors affecting the knowledge digestion stage are: knowledge output capability of University, inter-organizational communication context; The key influence factors affecting the knowledge Sharing stage are: inter-organizational cooperation context, the enterprise features; The key influence factors affecting the knowledge propagation stage are: the enterprise features, organizational distance (negative).This dissertation conducts some theoretical innovations as follows:1. Develop the K-space framework to reveals the tendency of knowledge transformed in the process of knowledge creation in the U-I collaboration process ,and put forward a new dynamic model : the GDSP knowledge creation and knowledge creation cycle2. Enrich and develop the typical SECI knowledge creation theory in four aspect:1) Develop the 'abstract' dimension in K-space analysis framework, that will the K-space framework explain the SECI knowledge creation process more convincingly.2) Give a better explanation of knowledge creation process in the contexts of cross- heterogeneity organization.3) Demonstrate that the systematic knowledge (abstract and codified knowledge) rather than tacit knowledge is possible to bring the greatest benefits for the enterprise based on the entropy theory.4) Give the principle of dynamics of the GDSP knowledge creation theory according to the entropy theory.3. Proposed knowledge value paradox...