地方政府创新中政策企业家知识创造的一个分析模型——以K市公益基金招投标改革为例

政策企业家在推动政府创新中,有无知识创造活动?若有,过程是怎样的?这是政府创新研究中的基本问题之一。论文以知识生产理论为视角,以K市公益基金招投标改革为例,对这一问题进行了研究。主要发现是:政策企业家将其新想法转化为创新方案的认知活动中,运用了其专门知识,创新方案设计活动是新想法、组织外部知识与内部知识的结合;知识创造本质是命题性知识与能力之知间相互作用而转换;知识创造方式包括原理化、操作化、合法化、边界化等;生产过程最后产出了因果知识、工具知识、流程知识、目标知识、预测知识、协调知识等。基于创造方式,论文将政策企业家的知识创造模型命名为ROLD。这一研究的意义在于:尝试从知识创造视角去揭示政府创新微观活动的“黑箱”。

An Analysis Model of the Knowledge Creation of Policy Entrepreneurs in Local Government Innovation—An Example of the Bidding Reform for the Public Welfare Fund in K City

Do policy entrepreneurs use knowledge creation activities when promoting government innovation?If so,what is their process?As this is a basic issue in government innovation research,this studyexamined this subject from the perspective of knowledge production theory,taking the bidding reform of K City's public welfare fund as a case.The main findings are:policy entrepreneurs used their expertise in cognitive activities to transform their new ideas into innovative solutions.These innovative solutions were the combination of new ideas and the external and internal knowledge of organizations.The essence of knowledge creation in this casewas the interaction and transformation of knowing what and knowing how.The approaches to knowledge creation included rationalization,operationalization,legalization and delimitation,and so on.Finally,the production process created causal knowledge,tool knowledge,procedure knowledge,target knowledge,prediction knowledge,coordination knowledge,and so on.Using the approaches of knowledge creation,this article identifies the knowledge creation model of policy entrepreneurs by the term ROLD.The significance of this research lies in revealing the“black box”of micro-activities in government innovation from the perspective of knowledge creation.