摘要
本研究探討廠商知識探索行為對創新績效的影響。以全球重視研發的績優廠商為樣本，將廠商知識探索行為的知識來源分為組織內部知識來源及組織外部知識來源，並針對探索知識的年代遠近程度進行實證研究，以瞭解不同之知識探索行為與知識之新舊程度對組織創新績效之影響。本研究收集1976年到2006年的美國專利資料庫資料，整理資料之後建立「專利創新資料庫」以利研究使用。實證結果證實持續投入研發的績優廠商應該重視外部知識來源，並且探索較新的內部知識，如此將有助於創新績效。

Abstract
This paper investigates firms knowledge search behavior affects innovation performance.
Take the global superior heavy R&D Intensity firms as the sample. We make a distinction between two areas of the firm's search resources : the search of its own knowledge-base and the search of others knowledge , and the age of the knowledge affects innovation performance. This research collects 1976-2006's USPTO Web Patent Databases, and build up " Patent & Innovation Database" to use for the convenience of the research after tidying up the data.
In our paper of patenting activity in superior heavy R&D Intensity firms, we find that the firms should explores the exterior knowledge , and explores the new internal knowledge, will conducive to the innovation performance.

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