Influence of Interdisciplinary Collaboration of Technical Teams on Breakthrough Innovation
This study investigates the impact of interdisciplinary collaboration within technical teams on breakthrough in-novation.Utilizing biomedicine patent data from the PATSTAT global patent database,we assess the interdisciplinary na-ture of technical teams across three dimensions:variety,balance,and disparity.The degree(measured by the D index)and the quantity of breakthrough innovation are employed to qualify the achievements of these teams.Using multiple linear re-gression analysis,we analyze the influence of interdisciplinary collaboration within technical teams on breakthrough inno-vation.The results show that,in the field of biomedicine,interdisciplinary technical teams significantly impact break-through innovation.The higher the variety within these teams,the more likely they are to produce breakthrough innova-tions of high caliber and the more the breakthrough innovation achievements of the team conform to the characteristics of"small but beautiful."Conversely,the greater the disparity within the technical team,the more likely they are to produce breakthrough innovations with low impact.Moreover,the higher the balance of the technical team,the more favorable the outcomes.We also find that the technical teams in the field of biomedicine are mainly small-scale teams with under ten people,among which young,non-transnational small-scale teams are more likely than others to produce high breakthrough innovation results.
interdisciplinarybreakthrough innovationD indextechnical team
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