科研管理 ›› 2023, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (9): 1-9.

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颠覆性技术创新:理论源起、整合框架与发展前瞻

曲冠楠1,3,陈凯华1,陈劲2,3   

  1. 1.中国科学院大学公共政策与管理学院,北京100049;
    2.清华大学经济管理学院,北京100084;
    3.清华大学技术创新研究中心,北京100084

  • 收稿日期:2022-09-07 修回日期:2023-06-27 出版日期:2023-09-20 发布日期:2023-09-09
  • 通讯作者: 陈凯华
  • 基金资助:
    中国博士后科学基金第71批面上资助项目:“意义导向的创新:概念框架、过程机制与组态效应”(2022M713098,2022—2024)。

Disruptive technovation: Origins, integrated framework, and prospects

Qu Guannan1,3, Chen Kaihua1, Chen Jin2,3   

  1. 1. School of Public Policy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
    2. School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; 
    3. Research Center of Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • Received:2022-09-07 Revised:2023-06-27 Online:2023-09-20 Published:2023-09-09
  • Contact: Kai-Hua Chen

摘要: 新时代,以颠覆性技术为核心的大国竞争与企业创新战略引发重要关注,系统性探究“颠覆性技术创新”(Disruptive Technovation, DT)的理论基础、核心概念内涵与整合框架对于助力“高水平科技自立自强”等国家战略的实现具有相当的重要性与紧迫性。然而,现有关于颠覆性技术创新的研究存在概念模糊、边界不清、框架缺乏整合性等亟待解决的问题。研究首先以技术导向下的创新理论范式演化为视角,系统回顾颠覆性技术创新的理论源起与边界,构建分析颠覆性技术创新的理论基础;进而,基于文献归纳与理论推演,研究提出涵盖技术新颖性(Technological Novelty)、技术优越性(Technological Superiority)与技术外部性(Technological Externality)的颠覆性技术概念内涵体系,并以之为核心梳理涉及颠覆性技术获得(涌现与搜索)、识别、采纳与扩散的颠覆性技术创新研究议题整合框架;最后,研究分析当前形势下我国颠覆性技术创新的机遇、约束与挑战,展望在复杂国际环境与新发展格局下颠覆性技术创新实践与研究发展的未来大趋势。

关键词: 颠覆性技术创新, 颠覆性技术, 整合框架, 创新范式

Abstract:   In the new era, disruptive technology-centered competitions between major powers and their enterprise innovation strategies have aroused great concern. It is of great importance and urgency to systematically explore the theoretical basis and core conceptual framework of disruptive technovation to help the realization of national strategies such as "high-level self-reliance of science and technology".Nevertheless, the existing research on disruptive technovation is faced with significant challenges, such as the vagueness of concepts, fuzziness of theoretical boundaries, and lack of integration of framework. To fill this gap, we conducted our research in three main phases:Firstly, from the perspective of the evolution of the technology-oriented innovation paradigms, this paper systematically reviewed the theoretical origins and boundaries of disruptive technovation. In this way, we identified the core of disruptive technovation research as the exploration of the nature and pattern of the emergence and diffusion of disruptive technologies. Furthermore, we pointed out the similarities and differences between disruptive technovation and related paradigms by highlighting the technology-centered characteristics and rules. Thus, we built the theoretical basis for analyzing disruptive technovation in this section.Secondly, based on the methods of literature induction and theoretical deduction, an integrated conceptual framework of disruptive technovation covering was proposed. In this framework, a new technology’s disruptiveness could be captured by three main dimensions. The first is Technological Novelty. This phase depicts the technological change of the focal technology compared to the mainstream ones. The second phase is Technological Superiority which represents to what extent a focal technology is functionally competitive rather than the mainstream ones. The final phase is named Technological Externality. We use this phase of characteristics to link disruptive technovation to social demands and national development. Furthermore, we developed a system of the research issues of disruptive technovation. Specifically, we divided disruptive technovation research into four streams: first, the Acquisition stream focus on the emergence patterns and search modes of disruptive technologies; Second, the Identification stream takes the screening and prediction of disruptive technologies into consideration; Third, the stream of Adoption and Diffusion mainly explore the process of disruptive technovation by which an enterprise uses disruptive technologies to enter an existing market or develop a new market.Finally, the paper analyzed the opportunities, constraints, and challenges of disruptive technovation in China under the situation of “competition between major powers” and looked forward to the future trends of disruptive technovation practice and studies under the complex international environment and new development pattern.

Key words: disruptive technovation, disruptive technology, integrated framework, innovation paradigm