The centrality and innovation performance of the quantum high-level innovation team: the moderating effect of structural holes

Yang, Yue; She, Yi; Jiang, Hong; Gan, QingQiu

doi:10.1080/09537325.2021.1950676

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“…They increasingly serve as intermediary bridges, conducive to technology cooperation and knowledge flow transfer. Our study extends the previous literature, and is consistent with the view that richer structural holes improve firm innovation performance [61]. However, previous literature has not examined the linear relationship between structural PLOS ONE holes and technology convergence, and we argue that a moderate but not excessive number of structural holes in collaborative networks, would help organizations to better integrate technology.…”

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“…This indicates that the closer the patent cooperation, the tighter the ties between organizations in the network, and the more beneficial for organizations to acquire new technologies and promote technology convergence. This is consistent with the findings of previous studies [21,60,61]. Meanwhile, the shorter the cooperation distance, the more favorable the flow of technology, which accelerates the frequency of cooperation and helps organizations accelerate technical uptake.…”

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China’s non-ferrous metal recycling technology convergence and driving factors: A quadratic assignment procedure analysis based on patent collaboration-based network structural hole

Luo

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2022

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Technological convergence is an important organizational innovation capability, essential for improving the core competitiveness of green and sustainable industries. However, studies have mainly focused on measuring technological convergence and have ignored the factors that affect the capabilities of such convergence capabilities. Thus, this study attempts to bridge this gap by providing an in-depth analysis of the impact of structural holes in inter-organizational technical cooperation networks. This technological convergence is studied from the perspective of a patent. It also considers the moderating effects of the degree of patent cooperation and the cooperation distance. It employs the social network theory to construct inter-organizational patent cooperation, and technological convergence networks, to facilitate the analysis of the effect of structural holes on such a convergence. It empirically examines 52 non-ferrous metal recycling organizations, with close patent cooperation. Accordingly, the structural hole constraint index by the inter-organizational patent cooperation network, shows a positive U-shaped curve relationship with technology convergence. Moreover, the degree of inter-organizational patent cooperation strengthens the positive U-shaped relationship, and the distance of cooperation weakens the influence of the structural hole constraint index on technology convergence. Therefore, managers and policymakers should encourage more industry-academia-research or patent alliances and designate policies to promote such cooperation.

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China’s non-ferrous metal recycling technology convergence and driving factors: A quadratic assignment procedure analysis based on patent collaboration-based network structural hole

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Zor

2022

PLoS ONE

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“…The study found that degree centrality, closeness centrality, and betweenness centrality of high-level quantum innovation team networks have a positive impact on team innovation performance. Structural holes do not directly affect innovation but positively moderate the impact of the three centralities on innovation performance [11].…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Moreover, studies have found that structural holes can positively moderate the impact on innovation performance. For instance, Yang et al treated structural holes as both a predictor and a moderator, finding that while structural holes do not directly affect innovation, they positively modulate the impact of degree centrality, closeness centrality, and betweenness centrality on innovation performance [11]. Structural holes have also been found to affect absorptive capacity and network knowledge diversity, thereby impacting innovation performance.…”

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A Review of Research on Structural Holes and Innovation Performance

2024

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With the development of globalization, firms are facing increasingly fierce competition. In such an environment, innovation has become an inevitable choice for companies to survive and develop, and is a hot topic studied by management scholars. Especially in high-tech industries, innovation has a particularly prominent impact on a company’s survival and prosperity. Technical innovation involves high levels of uncertainty and requires significant amounts of time and resources, so firms typically engage in strategic alliances to conduct joint research and exchange knowledge and information. In this process, innovation networks become an important source of innovation for companies, and the transfer, sharing, integration, and absorption of technical knowledge are all accomplished through innovation networks. As an important structure in innovation networks, structural holes can provide novel and heterogeneous information and knowledge. firms occupying positions in structural holes have information and control advantages, and by integrating different information, firms are more likely to create new knowledge. Therefore, the study of structural holes has become a focus of management research, and can play a significant role in promoting the development of social network and social capital theory. This paper systematically studies structural holes and innovation performance by reviewing existing research and defining the basic concepts and classifications of structural holes. In addition, relevant studies on the relationship between structural holes and innovation performance are summarized from the organizational, team, and individual levels, with a focus on the relationship between structural holes and firm innovation performance. Finally, based on the shortcomings of current research on structural holes and innovation performance, future research prospects are proposed to further promote the development of research in this area.

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“…A large number of studies have been conducted to examine these characteristics. In terms of science parks, existing studies have explored a series of moderating factors related to parks, including age, scale [21], degree of specialization [13], management characteristics [6], regional characteristics [20], and the relationship with local knowledge institutions [13]. Taking the age of the park as an example, scholars found that science parks established earlier had a positive impact on the innovation of firms in the parks [22].…”

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Do Science Parks Promote Companies’ Innovative Performance? Micro Evidence from Shanghai Zhangjiang National Innovation Independent Demonstration Zone

2023

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Science parks are considered to be key drivers of innovative economic activities and are important tools for countries and regions to achieve sustainable development. However, there still exists controversy about the positive effect of the science parks on the companies’ innovative performance. In this study, we constructed six hypotheses according to previous studies and tested them in the Shanghai Zhangjiang National Innovation Independent Demonstration Zone to answer two major research questions, i.e., (1) “Do science parks promote companies’ innovative performance?” and (2) “What factors in science parks affect the likelihood and intensity of companies’ innovative performance?”. Specifically, we selected 911 companies within the park and 861 companies outside the park using the coarsened exact matching method and applied the zero-inflated negative binomial model to identify the relationship between the company’s presence within the science park and the company’s innovative performance. Then, we applied the Heckman two-step model to further explore the key impact factors affecting the intensity of the innovation activities of the companies in the park. The results confirmed our first hypothesis that science parks can promote companies’ innovative performance. Moreover, we obtained two other findings. First, if a company is located within a science park, it can greatly improve the probability of innovation of that company, but it does not have any significant impact on the intensity. In other words, science parks promote more innovation among companies lacking innovation experience than those with innovation experience. Secondly, the reason why science parks can promote innovation is the knowledge spillover of innovation supporting institutions and high-tech enterprises in the parks, which is limited to a small geographical range. Our study provided new evidence on the positive role of science parks on companies’ innovative performance and offered a valuable sample for the research of science parks in developing countries. In addition, the policy suggestions we raised have reference value for developing countries to take full advantage of science parks to achieve sustainable development of their innovative economy.

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The centrality and innovation performance of the quantum high-level innovation team: the moderating effect of structural holes

Cited by 5 publications

References 52 publications

China’s non-ferrous metal recycling technology convergence and driving factors: A quadratic assignment procedure analysis based on patent collaboration-based network structural hole

China’s non-ferrous metal recycling technology convergence and driving factors: A quadratic assignment procedure analysis based on patent collaboration-based network structural hole

A Review of Research on Structural Holes and Innovation Performance

Do Science Parks Promote Companies’ Innovative Performance? Micro Evidence from Shanghai Zhangjiang National Innovation Independent Demonstration Zone

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