Corporate venturing and value creation: A review and proposed framework

Over the past decade, companies worldwide have used corporate venturing (CV) as a means of revitalizing their operations, building new capabilities, and achieving strategic renewal, creating value for shareholders. Business interest in CV has stimulated academic interest in the topic, resulting in a rapidly growing but fragmented body of literature. Despite the growing international scholarly interest in CV, researchers have devoted little effort to integrating prior findings in a cumulative fashion. As a result, studies do not build upon one another, making it difficult to gauge the progress being made in addressing the fundamental research questions related to CV. In this paper, we examine the literature on CV seeking to synthesize, integrate and link its key findings. To do so, we analyze this literature over the past decade to identify its major themes and research findings setting the stage for greater coherence in future research on CV. We give special attention to the challenges and rewards of theory building in future CV research. Our review clearly shows that CV is an area of scholarly inquiry that has important implications for managerial practice.     

技术的社会进化模式

本文运用控制理论与系统工程的思想和方法提出了一个基于负反馈复杂社会系统的技术进步的模式。通过对该模式的分析 ,揭示了技术进步的趋势与社会需求的大小无关而由复杂社会系统的结构所决定 ,指出社会因素对技术进步起到决定性的作用 ,这种决定性的作用是通过改变复杂社会系统的结构得以实现的。     

Absorptive capacity: a proposed operationalization

The concept of absorptive capacity has already been considerably studied from a theoretical perspective, but few, if any, attempts at operationalizing the concept have been studied in ways that would allow its full assessment. The more specific focus provided by the four dimensions identified in some recent literature – acquisition, assimilation, transformation and exploitation – opens up some promising avenues for operationalizing the concept. This exploratory research studies and describes case studies of ten innovative companies using a cross-sectional research design. In the first part of the article, we re-examine the concept of absorptive capacity in terms of dynamic capabilities and provide a review of the relevant literature. The second part describes the work accomplished to operationalize the concept of dynamic capability and analyses the possible relationship between the business strategies adopted by the companies studied and their particular strategic capacity.     

高科技企业战略联盟的生命周期

本文着重讨论高科技企业战略联盟的生命周期、生命周期各个阶段的特征 ,并对出现这些特点的原因进行分析     

技术系统演化与相应的知识演化理论综述 /FONT /P

本文以技术创新演化进程为切入点,沿技术系统的线性与非线性演化过程对知识管理的内在要求、知识管理领域的研究对促进技术演化的支持这一路径,按各研究内在的机理一致性对技术系统演化与相应的知识演化理论进行了梳理。结合各个子领域自身的文献综述,可以使技术创新和知识管理领域研究者和管理者对整个技术创新管理及相应知识管理的研究脉络有清明地认识,从而就具体的研究对理论体系及企业R&D实践的支持作用等达成全局性的了解。     

A new mechanism for carbon nanotube evolution

Key discoveries on the growth mechanism of carbon nanotubes(CNTs) have recently been achieved by CAS researcher ZHU Zhenping and his research group at the State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion,the Institute of Coal Chemistry of CAS, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the CAS Bairen Program.