Impacts of Knowledge Integration on New Product Development

Abstract

Although the previous studies of knowledge and new product development are quite quickly spreading in the past few years. In an effort to explore the research gap between knowledge integration (KI) and new product development (NPD), this research takes knowledge-based view to start the literature review, and then carry out an exploratory case study so as to shed light the nature of the KI that really impact continuous NPD at the firm in order to unravel the roots of product development sequencing. The analytical results show that the post-intervention process of KI and NPD was built, such as capturing knowledge, building classification of R&D knowledge, establishing knowledge structure, establishing R&D knowledge base, creating new product‘s R&D knowledge management and project management, and establishing maintenance mechanisms (i.e. knowledge integration of R&D and project), company can overcome dilemmas of KI and NPD. Based implications of the research findings, several recommendations are discussed