以Web of Science核心合集为数据来源,借助可视化软件VOSviewer分析创新网络研究的基本特征、热点演化和研究主题.研究发现:①经过30余年的探索,创新网络研究呈现出跨学科融合的特征,研究者全球合作网络已经成型,且节点日益多样化,美国、英国和中国成为网络的重要节点;②研究热点经历了 3个阶段的变化,从缓慢波动增长阶段的视角单一、热点分化到稳定增长阶段的多核分散、热点密集,再到剧烈增长阶段的融合发展、热点集中;③理论研究表现出四方面的转变,从概念解析到多学科关联的研究主题转变、从封闭式创新到开放式创新的理念转变、从系统理论到网络理论的认识论转变、从区域到地方—区域—国家—全球多尺度嵌套耦合的尺度转变.创新网络的本质并非是形成核心—边缘的空间结构体系,而是营建不断提高人类福祉的创新链接关系和创新环境.
Progress and Insights of Innovation Network Research from a Multidisciplinary Perspective
Innovative activities'sustained development depends on innovation networks.Using data from the Web of Science Core Collection and VOSviewer,this paper comprehensively analyzed the basic characteristics,hotspot evolution,and themes of innovation network research.It is found as follows.① After more than 30 years of exploration,innovation network research has been characterised by interdisciplinary integration.The global cooperation network of researchers has been formed,and the nodes are increasingly diversified.The United States,the United Kingdom and China are important nodes of the global innova-tion networks.② Research hotspots have gone through 3 stages:from a single perspective and divergent hotspots in the slow fluctuating growth stage,to multiple dispersed nuclei and dense hotspots in the stable growth stage,to convergent development and concentration of hotspots in the dramatic growth stage.③ Theoretical research has shifted in four major ways:from concept analysis to multidisciplinary linkages,from closed innovation to open innovation,from system theory to network theory,from re-gion to local-regional-national-global multiscale nested coupling.Accordingly,the essence of innovation networks is not to form a core-periphery spatial structure,but to build innovation connections and environment that continuously improve human well-being.