知識の蓄積と多様性が「探索(exploration)」的イノベーションに及ぼす影響の実証分析
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Determinants of forward citations for exploratory (March, 1991) patents granted in United States are statistically studied. When each organization is studied as a unit of analysis, characteristics of backward citations, including diversity of technological fields and frequency of self-citations, are found to be positively correlated with forward citations of exploratory patents. When each patent is chosen as a unit of analysis, self-citations and forward citations are estimated to be negatively correlated. Successful generation of exploratory knowledge depends not only on types of knowledge combined, but also on the characteristics of organization that accumulates and sporadically diversifies its technological fields. Although analysis on patent citations has provided us unique and indispensable opportunity to quantify knowledge creation, the study of exploratory patents still needs further development. Determinants for qualitative results of exploratory patents are not fully studied yet. Also, we have mutually contradicting view upon effects of self-citations on exploratory patents. By statistically analyzing patents granted during 1963-1999 in United States for various technological fields, including semi-conductor, biotechnology, photography, paint, and optical disk, this paper tries to show the determinants of forward citations for exploratory patents, and to emphasize the importance of frequent self-citations. Knowledge accumulation in exploitive manner has conventionally been criticized as a source of organizational inertia, thus as constrains for new knowledge creation. The analysis reported here shows incrementally accumulated in-house knowledge also enables organizations to create new value by combining knowledge with heterogeneous sources. The study on explorative knowledge creation seems to require more attention on organizational capability or characteristics, in addition to conventional focus on types of combined knowledge.
- 日本経営学会の論文
- 2008-10-10
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