Abstract: Knowledge collaboration is a new stage of knowledge management and collaborative management. The existing literature shows that there is the diversity in cognition of concept, connotation, key elements and the operation systems of knowledge collaboration. Based on the literatures related knowledge collaboration, and from three dimensions of concept connotation, key elements and the operation systems, this paper summarizes the typical points of view, and puts forward the basic ideas and theoretical framework of knowledge collaboration, in order to depict the basic essential views of knowledge collaboration and to outline its developing situation. Finally, paper points out that it need strengthen the study on basic theory and ideological system of knowledge collaboration in the further research activity.

摘要： 知识协同是知识管理和协同管理融合发展的新阶段。现有文献对知识协同概念内涵、关键要素和运行机制等方面尚存在认知差异。本文以知识协同相关文献为调研对象，针对知识协同内涵、要素和机制的研究现状进行归纳和论述，并围绕机制体系提出了知识协同理论的基本框架，以期得到关于知识协同的本质认识和发展轮廓，最后指出需要进一步加强知识协同的基础理论和思想体系的研究。

关键词: 知识协同, 内涵, 要素, 机制, knowledge collaboration, connotation, elements, system