Abstract
In the open innovation era, knowledge searching promotes product innovation and competitive advantages of firms. After systematic review of some literature, this paper divides market/technology knowledge search into four types, and then discusses how firms accomplish product innovation. The research focuses on how technology knowledge and market knowledge are transformed to serve for the providing of new products and services. Finally, this research uncovers the mechanism of how knowledge search influences firms’ competitive advantages building, and investigates the effect mechanism based on open innovation perspective.
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The paper is one of the outcomes of the national natural science foundation project and ministry of education project of China, the number is 71002092 and 11YJA630158. It also supported by three province project, the number is 12JCGL14YB, 2010YBB306 and XJK011BJG004. The Hangzhou key research base of philosophy and social science project: research on the recovery mechanism of customer’s trust on the internet enterprise after service failure which is supported by the research center of e-commerce and internet economy of Hangzhou normal university funds the paper.
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Lu, Ph. (2013). Research on the Effect of Knowledge Search on Product Innovation. In: Qi, E., Shen, J., Dou, R. (eds) The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38427-1_25
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