社会网络视角下的产业联盟技术创新——中国新能源汽车产业联盟的实证

Industry Alliance Technology Innovation from the Perspective of Social Network:An Empirical Study on China's NEV Industry Alliance

文章以网络收益划分为切入点,构建了社会网络视角下产业联盟技术创新的分析框架和收益模型;应用中国新能源汽车产业联盟的相关数据对模型进行了实证研究;对结构嵌入性和关系嵌入性、强关系和弱关系在联盟技术创新过程中的作用进行了进一步讨论。研究表明:在技术创新过程中关系嵌入性为新能源汽车产业联盟带来的收益更多,其中弱关系为联盟成员带来了更多的一般知识通路、新思想以及供销渠道,因而一直对联盟的技术创新产生正向影响;强关系在联盟技术创新初期提供了大量的冗余知识,浪费了大量的维系成本,因此这一阶段强关系带来的净收益是负的,然而随着技术创新的不断深入,合作变得越来越重要,强关系带来的净收益变为正向的,并呈现出逐年上升的趋势。

The paper constructs a framework and revenue model to study the technology innovation of industry alliance from the perspec- tive of Social Network. On this basis, this paper gives an empirical research with the data of China＇s NEV industry alliance. The results are as follows. In the process of China＇s NEV industry alliance technology innovation, the relationship embeddedness brings more reve- nues than the structural embeddedness. Weak ties bring more general knowledge accesses, new ideas and supply＆ market channels, which has positive effects on the technology innovation. In the early stage of technology innovation, strong relationships brings a lot of redundant knowledge, and maintain strong relationship costs a lot. So the net income is negative. With the development of technology in- novation, cooperation becomes more and more important, which leads to the rapid increase of the revenue from strong ties.