西方创新地理研究评述

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Innovation rather than land, capital and other factors becomes the new driver of economic development. In recent 35 years, researchers have made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the innovation process by exploring the location of R&D centers, the geography of high-technology industries, the diffusion of knowledge, etc. This paper systematically examines the history of the Western research on innovation geography, by summarizing the main researchers and their analyzing spatial scale, methodology and main findings every 5 years from 1991 to 2015. From 1991 to 1995, researchers mainly illustrated the geographical features of innovation activities as concentration in places. From 1996 to 2000, researchers explored the dynamics of innovation agglomeration, by focusing on the role of institutions. The period of 2001 to 2005 witnessed the booming of innovation geography research, especially the role of distant knowledge and global pipeline. From 2006 on, the evolutionary turn took the innovation geography research into the study of innovation network description and exploration. In summary, the Western innovation geography research has endured a dynamical development in the last 35 years; however, it has three shortcomings: neglecting the relationship between individuals and the organization, under-development of methodology, and thinking little of innovation policies and practices in developing economies. Therefore, we propose three fields to be studied to develop a new theoretical framework based on the developing economies: (1) the role of individual and organization as innovators; (2) the combination of quantitative and qualitative research; and (3) the innovation characters of developing economies.

Key words: geography of innovation, institutional turn, relational turn, evolutionary turn, research progress

Yu DENG, Yuefang SI. The progress and prospect of innovation geographyresearch in the West[J].GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 2016, 35(11): 2041-2052.

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排序	期刊名称	篇数	比例(%)
1	Regional Studies	141	8.65
2	European Planning Studies	107	6.56
3	Journal of Economic Geography	88	5.40
4	Environment and Planning A	68	4.17
5	Research Policy	53	3.25
6	Economic Geography	48	2.95
7	Urban Studies	38	2.33
8	Geoforum	37	2.27
9	Annals of Regional Science	37	2.27
10	Tijdschrift voor Econimishe En Sociale Geografie	32	1.94

时间	代表人物	空间尺度	研究内容	主要观点	研究方法
1991-1995	Audretsch D B, Feldman M P	国家、区域	创新的空间分布特征	创新存在着地理差异	Gini系数等传统定量方法
1996-2000	Morgan K, Storper M, Markusen A	地方、城市—区域	学习区域、产业集群等制度厚度与区域创新	缄默知识的本地传播是区域创新集聚的原因	企业访谈
2001-2005	Gertler M S, Bathelt H, Storper M	地方、全球	全球通道与本地蜂鸣	全球通道可向地方输入远方知识,促进创新	企业访谈
2006-2015	Boschma R A, Frenken K, Ter Wal A	地方、区域和全球	创新网络的演化	路径依赖和多样性影响创新演化	社会网络分析

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