Industrial Technology Capability And Improve Research

The true nature of modern industry development is a process of technological revolution and technological progress. Industrial technology capability (ITC) is the foundation of industry innovation; it is also the basis and starting point of the pattern of technology development choice and industry policies. China's ITC is not high; with its technology capability and manufacturing capacity are asymmetrical. It is the fundamental way by upgrading ITC to upgrade industrial structure, improve the international competitiveness of industry, and transform to new-pattern industrialization.Although mainstream economic theory recognizes the importance of ITC, it can not shed light on the issue because of the limitation of its research hypotheses and methods. At the same time, current management science can not interpret the nature of technology capability clearly, because it mainly deals with practical operation problems. As to ITC, existing researches use representative firms to study ITC, so the nature of ITC needs more research efforts to reveal. It is not difficult to realize the importance of ITC, but the difficult is how to find its core issues and cultivate ITC.It is the logical starting point of this dissertation from the division of knowledge and complement of knowledge. It analyzes the nature of knowledge management which is considered as the fundamental way to construct technology capability. It argues that knowledge management is to deal with knowledge coordination which is considered to be the basic issue to cultivate technology capability. On the basis of study above, it has concluded that technology capability is the capability to coordinate knowledge in the conditions of division of knowledge in its essence, In the light of technological economic paradigm, it also distinguishes the accumulation of technology capability and the evolution of technology capability. The former is to achieve the accumulation of organizational knowledge and individual expertise knowledge, and the latter brings about the importance of R&D efforts as to cultivate technology capability under information technology paradigm. The study above is the micro-foundation of ITC.Then this dissertation expands the division of knowledge to industry level. It analyzes the division of industry chain in the background of technical specialization. Based on technology chain and industry chain, it analyzes the concept and features of ITC, and the differences between ITC and technological capabilities of enterprises. It considers the accumulation and coordination of knowledge as the basis of cultivating ITC. It also analyzes the knowledge coordination on industry chain according to different industries, production organizational mode and government mechanism.To analyze the factors which influence the process of ITC upgrading and the mechanism, this dissertation constructs a diamond model. The empirical analysis shows that technological regimes, market structure, external knowledge, and local market can influence the process of ITC catching-up. We should pay more attention to local market's significance as to ITC; policies of attracting FDI should be targeted; and government plays an important role in the process of ITC catching-up.Finally, according to the framework of coordination of technology chain and industry chain, this dissertation analyzes the way to upgrade China's ITC from the perspective of different levels, such as industry level, technology level and coordination level. At industry level, it is recommended of extending industry chain, remodeling industry chain under modularity circumstance and promoting industrial convergence. At technology level, it is recommended of optimizing technology structure, introducing technology rationally and taking advantage of technology convergence. At coordination level, it is recommended of improving the industrial innovation system, developing producer services and industrial clusters.The innovative contribution of this dissertation is reflected in three aspects. Firstly, as a research attempt, it considers the division and complement of knowledge as the entry point to study technology capability, and made a logical interpretation as to related issues. Secondly, it constructs a diamond model, and analyzes the effect mechanism systematically. Finally, it considers the factor of information technology paradigm, and constructs the way to upgrade China's ITC according to the framework of coordination of technology chain and industry chain.