Identification of R&D partners based on SAO analysis

Abstract

Abstract: With increasing complexity of technological innovation and decreasing of product lifecycle, enterprises should broaden their basic knowledge in order to deal with the quick changes of the environment. Also, the enterprises need to seek opportunities for cooperation from outside to improve the process of the enterprises' innovation or to promote existing R&D capability. Therefore, how to identify and select the right partners becomes the main point for enterprises. This paper aims at showing how to identify R&D cooperation partners for open innovation based on SAO analysis. This approach mainly consists in exacting SAO structures from the title and abstract of the literatures, building SAO structure map including these three dimensions: materials, technologies & components and goals, searching the organizations with similar goals and finally, analyzing the possibility of the cooperation among these organizations and also the potential cooperating directions. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) research is used as the empirical study to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the method.

Key words: SAO (Subject-Action-Object) analysis, SAO structure map, partner identification, open innovation, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs)

CLC Number:

C93.03

Wang Xuefeng, Fu Yun, Qiu Pengjun, Liu Yuqin. Identification of R&D partners based on SAO analysis[J]. Science Research Management, 2015, 36(10): 19-27.

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