The Impact of Specialized Knowledge Search on Enterprise Innovation.

ABSTRACT: Against the backdrop of the fierce competition in the market nowadays, a closed innovation model based on internal knowledge is no longer sufficient to support enterprises in search of high-performance innovation. Instead, corporations are desperately required to search for resources of external knowledge to meet their innovation goals. Existing studies on open innovation in corporate management failed to fully elaborate on the mechanism of how the external knowledge search could impose an impact on sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation. In this study, the external knowledge search was divided into three categories according to the knowledge-based theory, namely, the scientific knowledge search, the market knowledge search, and the supply-chain knowledge search. While taking into

SUBMITTER: Liu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8529040 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature