Personality, Team Goals, Motivation, and Tacit Knowledge Sharing Performance Within a University Research Team

Abstract

As important bases to cultivate high-level innovative talents and as also two of the main forces of original innovation in basic research and high-technology field, colleges and universities continually supply fresh troops to address the issue of the national economy and to accomplish the successful transfer of technology and achievements. The research team is a group made up of researchers having complementary skills and being responsible for each other under a common research objective, research goal, and working method. In colleges and universities, the cultivation of discipline leaders, the integration of research direction, the nurturing of characteristic discipline, the promotion of overlapping discipline, the solution to important scientific problems, the acceleration of major scientific research achievements, etc. can all be achieved by forming a research team. Research teams in universities are the main conduit of knowledge dissemination and innovation in the national innovation system, as intellectual activity runs throughout the whole process. For research teams in universities with an academic organization form having the purpose of studying, tacit knowledge sharing plays a decisive role for the completion of team tasks.