Motivation mechanism: a study of behavioral competence diversity toward exploitative and exploratory innovation in open interdisciplinary teams

This research is constituted by interview and quantitative research and it intends to explore the connections among behavioral competence diversity, motivation mechanism, exploitative innovation, and exploratory innovation. It puts great efforts on how to gain the capabilities on exploitative and exploratory innovation in interdisciplinary teams via motivation mechanism, which comprises reward, commitment, and self-efficacy. A total of 400 questionnaires were filled out to the people who participate Cross-field innovation value-added promotion plan in green technology and 159 vali responses. First, we found out that behavioral competence diversity has positive relationship with reward and commitment. Second, Commitment has significantly influence on self-efficacy. Third, self-efficacy positively affects exploitative innovation. However, there are no significant influence among reward, self-efficacy, and exploratory innovation.