著者

洞口 治夫

出版者

日本経営学会

雑誌

日本経営学会誌 (ISSN:18820271)

巻号頁・発行日

no.21, pp.15-26, 2008-04-20

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Combining Collective Knowledge with Collective Strategy gives new foundations for the theory of knowledge management. Theories of Collective Knowledge/Intelligence and Collective Strategy can be linked together and Symbiotic Knowledge emerges as a new type of knowledge created from one of Collective Strategy, Conjugate Strategy. Conjugate Strategy is to create direct collaborative work among people or organizations belonging to a different type of industry. Collective Knowledge is defined as knowledge created jointly by independent interacting groups or individuals. The new dimension is given as a result of inter-disciplinary collaboration to create a new discovery or devices. Symbiotic Knowledge thus brings about the possibility of establishing Genetic Theory of Innovation. Symbiotic Knowledge embodies a new dimension for problem solving by collaboration between different fields of expertise. The applicability of Symbiotic Knowledge is wider in product development, and collaborative research by business-university alliance is a typical example. In this paper, University-industry collaboration in Toyama Prefecture is exemplified from this perspective. Under the Intellectual Cluster Creation Project organized by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, the Toyama Medical Bio-cluster was launched under the direction of the governor of Toyama Prefecture. A university-launched venture was established through cooperation by the University of Toyama Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Science, Toyama Industrial Technology Center, and local companies. They jointly developed cell chips to conduct research on lymphocyte and antibody gene analysis. The use of cell chips made it possible to obtain data from 250,000 micro-wells whereas the use of microscopy gave a single observable data. This new apparatuses were made out of Symbiotic Knowledge and they contributed to set forward a new dimension on the analytical method of lymphocyte.