Abstract:Basing on the correlation between knowledge innovation and knowledge integration in the university scientific research team, it is presented that knowledge integration is a key procedure to carry out knowledge innovations, and the connotation is revealed that knowledge integration embodies the collective rationality in the university scientific research team’s knowledge innovations. In addition, the features of the university scientific research team are analyzed, which include features of team members’ knowledge structure, team’s organization structure, and the team’s knowledge innovation conducting models. Then the features of knowledge integration in the university scientific research team towards knowledge innovation are explored, which are comprised of knowledge integration tasks, the knowledge needed in the knowledge integration process, the knowledge integration players’ roles and knowledge integration models. According to the above analysis, the connotations of knowledge integration in the university scientific research team towards knowledge innovation are presented, consisting of knowledge integration goals, knowledge integration process, the relations among the knowledge integration players and their participating intentions.