Geographical research on knowledge-intensive business services:Advances and prospects
Knowledge-intensive business services(KIBS)is considered a key driver of innovation and economic development in the knowledge economy era as an industry that provides knowledge and technology services.With the rise of the knowledge economy and the advanced industrial structure in the 1990s,scholars in China and internationally began to focus on the spatial distribution of KIBS and the process of knowledge diffusion,as well as its significant role in promoting industrial integration,regional innovation,and economic transformation.Since the twenty-first century,rapid economic globalization has propelled the application research of KIBS in geographical fields such as national and regional innovation,industrial clusters,and innovation networks.Under the new situation of globalization and the new research paradigms of economic geography,research on the integration of KIBS and various research paradigms of economic geography,the mechanism of impact of KIBS on the new information technology revolution and new quality productivity,the mechanism of impact of KIBS on industrial upgrading and regional transformation from the perspective of global-local interaction,global-local production network,and multiscale innovation space reconstruction are relatively insufficient.Based on the current research progress,the authors reviewed the key publications on KIBS in the field of geography in China and internationally,summarized the spatial and temporal distribution characteristics of KIBS publications,and used the bibliometric analysis software CiteSpace 6.2.R6 to make a visual analysis of research hotspots in this field.We systematically summarized the research hotspot content and research trend of KIBS.Combined with the new situation of globalization and the major strategic issues of China's economic geography research,we put forward the prospect of KIBS geographical research focusing on KIBS and regional development transformation under the new trend of globalization,KIBS and new quality productivity,global-local innovation centers,KIBS and global-local innovation networks from the perspective of global-local interaction,and KIBS and multiscale innovation spatial coupling.
knowledge-intensive business services(KIBS)location choiceregional innovationglobal production network(GPN)innovation space
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