Theoretical progress and prospects of regional innovation research
Innovation is an important driving force for regional development.Since the 1980s,scholars in geography and related disciplines have paid great attention to the relationship between innovation and regional development,and have carried out a wealth of research on regional innovation.In the early stage,regional innovation research took regional innovation system as the main research approach and explored the spatial aggregation mechanism and regional characteristics of innovation activities.In the 21st century,however,with the deepening of economic globalization and the prominence of global challenges in the fields of climate,environment,and energy,regional innovation research has shown a diversified trend in theory and research objects.Although scholars have theoretically reviewed regional innovation research,they have not paid sufficient attention to the changes in the socioeconomic background and theories of regional innovation research.To fill this gap,this article comprehensively comprehended the socioeconomic background,research propositions,and main research topics of regional innovation research paradigm change since the 1980s,revealing the evolution of regional innovation research that shifted from closed to open region precondition and from static to dynamic and transformative analysis,indicating the contribution of other perspectives such as technological innovation system,evolutionary economic geography,and transition studies,and suggesting the importance of global knowledge and the normative turn in regional innovation research.Moreover,after summarizing the current progress,this article proposed that future regional innovation research needs to pay more attention to multi-scalar and comparative regional innovation research and focus on the negative side and the role of the state in regional innovation activities.
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