本研究探討廠商在探索知識的數量及年代遠近程度對其創新之影響。首先本研究將廠商探索的來源分為兩個領域探索自己公司內部之知識探索競爭者的知識。接著進一步於這兩個領域中探討兩種幾乎呈現對立的論點：（1）年代較久遠的知識會傷害創新，因為其使得創新活動顯得淘汰過時而傷害創；（2）年代較久遠的知識會促進創新，因為這些舊知識歷經千錘百鍊而較具可靠性。分析結果則建立於目前大型TFT-LCD面板製造產業中前十六家公司的縱斷面資料。實證結果顯示探索組織內與競爭者之知識對創新研發有負向影響，但探索競爭者知識年代遠近程度會對創新呈倒U型的關係。

This paper investigates how the quantity and age of the knowledge that firms search affects how innovative they are. First, I make a distinction between two areas of the firm’s search resources: the search of its own knowledge-base and the search of its competitors’ knowledge. Then two seemingly contradictory propositions are examined at the two firm’s search resources: (1) old knowledge hurts by making innovation activities obsolete, and, (2) old knowledge helps because it is more reliable, thereby promoting innovation. Results based on longitudinal data on 16 large-size TFT-LCD panel manufactories. We find intra-firm and intra-industry knowledge hurt innovation, and searching intra-industry knowledge age is taking an inverted U-shape related to innovation.

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