| Summary: | 博士 === 雲林科技大學 === 企業管理博士班 === 99 === One of the major issues for technology companies pursuing operating performance is their collaborator for the new products development (NPD) of core technologies, an integral component to promoting technology development and production effectiveness. Concerning networks in technology market structures, Stuart (1998) used data on semiconductor industry patents and their citations to introduce an outside-in examination of organizational technology niches and alliance formation tendencies. This study focuses on core organizational technology capabilities to construct an egocentric technology network from the inside-out, introducing an assessment process for selecting the suitable cooperation firm of NPD, and thereby resolving a flaw in Stuart’s outside-in analysis.
First, based on the egocentric technology network of a focal company, this paper constructs assessment indicators for company technological knowledge status (TKS) in order to differentiate hidden candidates for technological cooperation. Secondly, to identify the appropriate cooperative firm, this paper introduces a technological knowledge reliability (TKR) indicator. Finally, a technology network formed using specific technologies from a core company is used to perform empirical testing. This study found that the suitable firms of NPD for a focal company to cooperate are those technology follower companies with relatively high TKS and TKR. Also, during the participation with focal core technology development, they possess two characteristics: (1) joining the technology development during the emerging stage; (2) the technology development trend was co-evolved with the focal company.
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