新兴交叉领域技术会聚对技术价值的影响研究——以纳米生物制药领域为例

The Effect of Technological Convergence on Technological Value in Emerging Cross-fields——Taking Nano biopharmaceuticals as an Example

技术会聚是不同领域或来源技术知识的交叉与融合,产生兼具组合价值及协同价值的会聚技术。当前技术演变呈现会聚态势,尤其是新兴交叉领域,毋庸置疑创新主体的技术研发实践需要技术会聚。然而,技术知识会聚到何种程度及会聚何种类型的技术知识能产生高价值的技术成果?成为研发人员迫切关注和学者亟待解决的关键问题。本研究以纳米生物制药领域为例,收集该领域在美国专利商标局(USPTO)申请的专利数据,基于多个粗细粒度分别测度该领域技术会聚的程度,运用负二项模型检验理论假设。结果表明:技术会聚程度对技术价值产生显著的正向影响,被会聚的技术知识成熟度及重叠度均削弱此正向作用。研究结果有助于指导技术研发活动中研发人员的技术会聚实践。

The evolution of technologies show a converging trend,especially for the field of the emerging cross-fields.There is no doubt that R&D practice of innovators needs to converge different technological knowledge.However,few scholars have explored the effect of technological convergence.That is,in order to create high-valued technologies,what extent and type of technological knowledge should be converged? Solving this problem is helpful to innovation practice.This study took the field of nanobiopharmaceuticals as an example to collect patent data applied by the USPTO in the field,measured the degree of convergence of technology in this field based on multiple coarse and fine particle sizes,and used the negative binomial model to test the theoretical hypothesis.Empirical results show that the degree of convergence of technology has a significant positive impact on the value of technology,and the convergence of technical knowledge maturity and overlap weaken this positive effect,which will help guide the technical convergence of R&D personnel in technology R&D activities.