• 中国科学学与科技政策研究会
  • 中国科学院科技政策与管理科学研究所
  • 清华大学科学技术与社会研究中心
ISSN 1003-2053 CN 11-1805/G3

科学学研究 ›› 2023, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (7): 1270-1281.

• 科技管理与知识管理 • 上一篇    下一篇

技术多元化战略对新产品开发优势的影响研究

王丽平1,高倩2,3   

  1. 1. 天津理工大学管理学院
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    3. 天津理工大学
  • 收稿日期:2022-04-20 修回日期:2022-06-05 出版日期:2023-07-15 发布日期:2023-07-15
  • 通讯作者: 王丽平

Research on the Influence of Technology Diversification Strategy on New Product Development Advantages

  • Received:2022-04-20 Revised:2022-06-05 Online:2023-07-15 Published:2023-07-15

摘要: 不断开发出具有市场优势的新产品是企业长期发展的关键支撑,但关于企业如何获取新产品开发优势的研究较少。研究基于战略管理理论和知识基础理论,构建了一个被调节的中介效应模型,集中探讨技术多元化战略对新产品开发优势的影响机制,重点分析专利组合的中介作用和知识势差的调节作用。通过对来自高新技术企业的417份有效问卷的数据分析发现:技术多元化战略的两个维度,即技术挖掘和技术探索均正向影响新产品创新性和新产品开发速度,专利组合在其中起中介作用;知识势差不仅负向调节专利组合与新产品开发优势之间的关系,而且负向调节专利组合的中介作用。研究从新的视角为企业获取新产品开发优势提供了具体思路,有助于企业更加深刻地理解和开展新产品开发优势的实现过程。

Abstract: New product development is a key link related to the survival and development of enterprises. The rapid development of digital technology makes product research and development face more uncertain challenges. Only by continuously developing new products with market advantages can enterprises win and maintain the market competitive position and promote the sustainable development of enterprises. The new product development advantages emphasizes that enterprises should not only develop innovative new products to lead the development of the industry, but also speed up the research and development of new products to lead the competitors. How to obtain the new product development advantages is a practical problem for enterprises to form sustainable development competitiveness, but there is less research on it. This study combines strategic management theory and knowledge-based theory. And on the basis of previous studies, it is found that under the background that the scientific and technological revolution has brought a variety of uncertain challenges to product research and development of enterprise, the long-term layout based on the technology diversification strategy can greatly enrich enterprise technical knowledge, and more effectively promote the process of obtaining the new product development advantages. In addition, patent portfolio as an important means of efficiently integrating internal and external resources of enterprises, as well as knowledge potential difference as an important knowledge feature affecting enterprises to obtain external innovation resources, have a profound impact on the acquisition process of new product development advantages. Therefore, two variables, patent portfolio and knowledge potential difference, are introduced to construct a moderated mediation model to explore the mediation mechanism and boundary conditions of technology diversification strategy affecting enterprises to obtain the new product development advantages. In this study, the data were collected in the form of questionnaire, and the conditions were set in advance to ensure the representativeness of the samples. Finally, 417 valid samples were obtained. The collected data are tested by hierarchical regression method and bootstrap method. The results show that firstly, technology diversification strategy has a positive impact on new product development advantages. Through technology mining and technology exploration, enterprises deepen and expand the technical field, optimize the research and development process and capture emerging opportunities, which is conducive to improving the new product creativity and the new product development speed. Secondly, patent portfolio plays an intermediary role between technology diversification strategy and new product development advantages. Enterprises need patent portfolio to integrate internal and external resources to generate new knowledge or ideas and enrich the resource pool of new product development in order to promote the process of obtaining the new product development advantages. In addition, knowledge potential difference not only negatively regulates the relationship between patent portfolio and new product development advantages, but also negatively regulates the intermediary role of patent portfolio. Excessive knowledge potential difference will form a barrier among enterprises, affect the efficiency of obtaining innovative resources and hinder the acquisition of new product development advantages. The research provides specific ideas for enterprises to obtain the new product development advantages from a new perspective, which helps enterprises to more deeply understand and carry out the realization process of new product development advantages.