niekun@mail.zjgsu.edu.cn Kun Nie is an associate professor at School of Business Administration in Zhejiang Gongshang University, China. In 2001, he received his Bachelor degree in Management Science from Chang'an University, China. In 2005, he received his Master degree in Management Science from Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. In 2008, he received his Doctor degree in Knowledge Management from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His research interests include social network, knowledge management, and entrepreneurship. lucyslin@gmail.comShufang Lin is an assistant professor at the Department of Business Administration in Yuanpei University, Taiwan. She obtained her Doctor degree in Human Resource Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff, UK. Her major research interests include knowledge management, organizational behaviors and innovation. She has received several prizes for her teaching, including the Best Teacher of the Year in 2008 and the Teaching Improvement Excellence in 2009 at Yuanpei University. She is a member of the Project Management Institute, USA and a member of the OR society, UK. She also joins the Asia Pacific Industrial Analysis Association, Taiwan. tjma@ecust.edu.cn Tieju Ma is a professor at the School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology, China, and a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria. He received his B.S. in industrial engineering in 1998 from Dalian University of Technology, China. Then from the same university he received his M.S. in systems engineering in 2000. In October 2003, he received his PhD in Knowledge Science from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His research interests include agent-based modeling, technology dynamics,and knowledge management. nakamori@jaist.ac.jp Yoshiteru Nakamori is a professor at the Graduate School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Scienee and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan. He received his B.S., M.S., and PhD deg