| Summary: | 碩士 === 長庚大學 === 工業設計研究所 === 93 === “Design Chain” collaborates R&D among companies via the internet, this measure has been applied in technical integration of automobile and IT industries which would reach the effectiveness of product innovation and resource integration. Through to generalize related documents, this paper compares design chain with other cooperative measures, finding design chain is a kind of advanced research consortium including strategies, processes and techniques.
Mobile aids industry is the most thriving business in health equipment industry. The powered mobile aids industry (including powered wheelchair, scooter and manual wheelchair) is small scale and emphasize its requirement of cooperative R&D measures. This paper will probe into the decision of design chain strategy in mobile aids industry, including the character of mobile aids industry, the intension of constructing design chain, possible operation mode of collaborated R&D and the factors of design chain strategy.
In order to realize inter-company R&D collaboration of mobile aids industry, this paper applies “Upper Echelons” to design the research structure and questionnaires, also through interview of top management. To acquire approach general survey results and ideas of top management in representative companies about the utility of design chain in mobile aids industry.
Through the statistics and analysis of questionnaires, this paper infers the model of design chain decision in mobile aids industry. This model would find the character of industry is the most effective factor in the design chain strategy of mobile aids industry. The other way, this paper through statistics data and results of interviews, concluding the character and intention of R&D collaboration in mobile aids industry. These researches will make useful suggestion to industry, government and the academic to think over their R&D collaboration strategy.
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