Knowledge Creation and Cooperation between Cross-nation R&D Institutes

The advantage of a cross-nation R&D cooperative project for businesses is that such a project can integrate and combine the technological capabilities of different countries through global linking, so that they can exchange, learn, and transform knowledge, thus enhancing the quality of innovative products or technologies as well as speeding up their adoption. This study explores the impact of different patterns of knowledge combination on cross-nation R&D cooperation. We focus on four cross-nation cooperative projects. A total of eight observational cases were the subjects of our research. We propose that knowledge combination can be classified into two patterns: knowledge fusion and knowledge reconfiguration. Cross-nation R&D cooperation tends to be the pattern of knowledge diffusion in the initial stage. With the increase of mutual interaction, the degree of knowledge fusion will increase gradually. Finally, cross-nation R&D cooperation will generate a significant influence on the subsequent research projects by increasing the depth of the research.

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