Abstract:

Innovation is the first driving force to lead economic development, the research on firm innovation networks has recently received great attention from economic geographers, the research has gone through the process of changing from qualitative to quantitative, especially, the structural characteristics of innovation networks based on patent or paper data has become the current research focus. However, the internal formation mechanism of firm innovation networks is still not deep enough. Many scholars have introduced a multi-dimensional proximity framework to analyze the important perspective of the formation of enterprise innovation network. This paper sorts out the research hotspots from three aspects: the influencing factors of firm innovation networks, evolutionary dynamics and mechanism, and typical cases of firm innovation networks, and focuses on the operation mechanism of firm innovation networks from the perspective of multi-dimensional proximity. The results show that geography, cognitive and organizational proximity play a more important role in promoting innovation cooperation among firms. In the future, it is necessary to strengthen the related research on optimal proximity scale, substitution or complementarity of different proximity and ranking of importance.

Key words: innovation networks, innovative firms, multi-dimensional proximity, economic geography

摘要：

创新是引领经济发展的第一动力，企业创新网络相关研究近来受到经济地理学者的高度关注，纵观当前国内外企业创新网络相关研究文献，企业创新网络研究经历了从定性研究向定量研究转变的过程，尤其是基于专利或论文数据刻画创新网络结构特征成为当前研究的热点，然而企业创新网络结构形成的内在机制仍不够深入，不少学者引入多维邻近性框架用于解析企业创新网络形成的重要视角。本文正是基于这一背景，从企业创新网络的影响因素、演化动力及机理、典型案例企业创新网络三个方面梳理了当前经济地理学者的研究热点，并重点基于多维邻近性视角评述了企业创新网络运行机理。研究发现，众多邻近性中，地理、认知和组织邻近对企业创新合作具有较为重要的促进作用，在未来研究中还需加强最佳邻近尺度、不同邻近性替代或互补作用和重要性排序等问题的相关研究。

关键词: 创新网络, 创新型企业, 多维邻近性, 经济地理