Abstract
Interactive learning is an important source of competitive advantage. Consisting of innovative enterprises, universities, research institutes, etc., innovation network has become an important carrier of interactive learning. As a binder of relationships among innovation organizations, the level of trust determines the operational performance of the innovation network. This paper discusses the interactive learning and evolution of mutual trust within the innovation network, as well as the “symbiotic” interaction between them, which has important influence on the knowledge transfer efficiency and operational performance of the innovation network. Moreover, game theory is applied to analyze the building process of mutual trust under different conditions, and then the conditional inequalities needed to be met are deduced in this paper. Finally, this paper proposes three managerial enlightenments.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71571126), Western Project of National Social Sciences Fund (12XGL003), Innovation Team Project “Knowledge Chain Management” (13TD0040) and General Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (12SB342) of Education Department of Sichuan Province.
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Luo, L., Gu, X., Wei, Q., Li, H. (2017). On Interactive Learning and Mutual Trust Within the Innovation Network. In: Xu, J., Hajiyev, A., Nickel, S., Gen, M. (eds) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 502. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1837-4_3
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