Abstract
Based on the statistics analysis of cooperation innovation articles, the paper analyses the distributing characteristics of cooperation innovation research papers. The distribution, structure and evolution of cooperation innovation research are studied through the social network and co-word method, combined with the information visualization technology. This study is based on the papers in the SSCI database during 2000-2014. The analysis and statistics of papers reveal distribution characteristics of the subject, time, institutions, countries and areas. The statistics shows that the research perspective of cooperation innovation from business and economics. The time distribution presents that research of cooperation innovation attracts enormous attention and the research achievement is increasing. From the distribution of organizations, countries and areas, North America and Europe countries maintain the leading position in this research field. But institutions and universities of China and other Asian countries or areas are witnessed their outstanding achievements in cooperation innovation research. Combining the co-word network analysis method, the paper studies the structure and content of cooperation innovation knowledge network in five stages and makes the net spectrum, visually showing the hot spots at various periods. The top highly cited papers in all five stages are reviewed simultaneously; their research hot spots and evolution process are concluded. The study shows 11 subjects including strategic alliances, social networks, R&D cooperation, R&D, technology transfer, alliances, knowledge management, social capital, entrepreneurship, trust, biotechnology are always the central issues in last 15 years. The focus of research is from the relationship between alliance and technology innovation to networking and knowledge innovation and then to open innovation.
Highlights
There are some articles that applies the diachronous methods of bibliometrics to analyze the innovation papers, but those articles are based on the domestic data base or just study one particular branch of cooperation innovation as some papers only abstract the technology coalition or open-end innovation, or they jest pay attention the alternation during short term
37.3% is about management, 18.6% about business and 11.1% about economics with other categories like engineering industry and information science library science, etc. cooperation innovation research is obviously found an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary one and mainly from the aspects of management, business and economics
The division can make the change of co-word network obvious, which facilitates the research of cooperation innovation hot spot evolution
Summary
The cooperation is usual way by corporations, research institutions, university and public sectors to implement innovation. Nooteboom (1999) [12] believes that learning the cooperation skills, the enterprises can get more understanding and trust among cooperation parties, reduce the cost of coordination and business and increase the accumulated and fundamental innovation performance. Hagedoorn et al (2000) [17] concludes ten effects of cooperation on innovation: decrease the transaction cost of research and development; extend the effective range of innovation activity; make networks to increase the efficiency, strengthen the coordination and boost the market interest; gain the external and complementary source and ability to take advantage of existing resource and develop sustainable, competitive advantage; prompt organizing to learn, to internalize the core-competitiveness; create the new investment opportunity in innovation of high opportunity and risk. The experiences from previous cooperative projects are considered be possible to improve the R&D ones in progress [25]; for example, Dyer et al (1998) [26] and Barajas et al (2010) [27] discuss that the cooperation experience can lead to development of relationship capital and effective cooperation practice, which can promote the knowledge transforming and reduce the costs of transaction and coordination in an R&D cooperation [28]
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