Chun-Hsien Wang

Exploring the Nanotechnology Alliances of Nanotechnology Firms: The Roles of Network Position and Technological Uncertainty:

Nanotechnology is now increasing attention to inter-firm collaboration and alliances for developing nanotechnology commercialisation opportunities. This study explores and examines nanotechnology alliance networking behaviour to determine fully what types of factors drive nanotechnology alliance activities. The proposed research frameworks attempt to fill the gap in knowledge regarding emerging nanotechnology alliance behaviour and to explore the alliance decisions driving inter-firm nanotechnology alliances that are grounded in deeper knowledge of nanotechnology alliances. The primary focus of nanotechnology alliance activity for nanotechnology-based firms confirms that nanotechnology alliances are influenced directly by inter-firm R&D ties and by joint interactions among inter-firm R&D ties, network positions and technological uncertainty. Specifically, we propose that a nanotechnology-based firm is highly likely to engage in alliances regarding decision-making activity. Using an original dataset of nanotechnology-based firms in the emerging nanotechnology alliance activity, we found that the joint effect of a position of high network centrality and a high level of technological uncertainty weakens inter-firm nanotechnology alliances.

Co-innovation network driven entrepreneurship in high-tech technology-evidences from China

The establishment of high-tech industrial development zones (HID) is employed as an innovation policy instruments for developing industrial technological upgrading in emerging China. The government sponsored HIDs have proven to be remarkably in university-industry-government (U-I-G) coalition in driving academic knowledge and commercialized applications to which we refer as co-innovation network. The firms embedded in HIDs for obtaining co-innovation assistance resources as a new innovation and commercialization paradigm for government innovation policies. We applied an analytic inductive case-based method and social network analysis to study one particular co-innovation network for creating academic entrepreneurship firms in emerging market. Drawing on fine-grained two HIDs and large-scale survey firm-level data between 2010 and 2013 on Pearl River Delta (PRD), government sponsored co-innovation provide evidence of the different model through which university-industry (U-I) co-evolve and respective measures of commercializing academic knowledge success. Furthermore, the empirical results suggest that the government sponsored innovation is crucial drive force to the level of academic knowledge commercialization in emerging China market.