Constructing Models of Knowledge Management in Research Teams

Continually extended scientific research needs more cooperation among different disciplines. An outstanding research team needs to develop a set of management models to support effective management. Knowledge management, as a completely new management model and management theory, has been successfully applied to knowledge organizations in enterprises and has formed a set of relatively perfect theoretical methods. This paper firstly sets up a model of dynamic harmonious cooperation among research teams according to their characteristics and a frame model of knowledge management based on the analysis of similarities and differences between knowledge organizations in enterprises and research teams. Then it presents the application of knowledge management into the process of research projects in detail. Finally, it discusses the learning mechanisms of individuals in a research team as well as of the whole team to improve the team´s abilities of learning, applying, researching and developing