【主讲】安德鲁·戴维斯教授和拉斯·傅德森教授，帝国理工商学院

【主题】知识创造与转移

【时间】2010-5-17（星期一）13:30-15:30

【地点】清华经管学院伟伦楼336房间

【语言】英文

【主办】技术经济与管理系

【讲座简介】

Building on the literature on“dynamic capabilities”(e.g. Teece et al, 1997; Helfat and Peteraf, 2003), we present a conceptual model consisting of three overlapping phases of capability development when an organisation attempts to position itself in a market: renewal, replication and reinforcement. Empirically, we explore how a UK-based global engineering consultancy firm developed and grew into a new market for designing‘ecocities’. 55 interviews in the UK and China and observations from three site visits to consultancy’s Shanghai office enabled us to identify three distinct phases of the capability development process: (1) a renewal phase as the consultancy created the knowledge (including the technologies and organisational approaches) to design the Dongtan ecocity; (2) a replication phase as the consultancy transferred the knowledge gained on the first breakthrough project to subsequent projects in China and elsewhere in the world; and (3) a reinforcement phase as the consultancy became an“institutional entrepreneur”in marketing the concept of ecocities around the world, providing legitimacy for its leading role in this nascent market for sustainable integrated urban design.