Journal of Geographical Sciences >
Combinatorial knowledge dynamics, innovative performance, and transition studies
Xue Shuaijun, PhD Candidate, specialized in knowledge base combination and innovation studies. E-mail: xue@geographie.uni-kiel.de |
Received date: 2022-05-16
Accepted date: 2023-01-23
Online published: 2023-05-11
Supported by
National Social Science Foundation of China(21ZDA011)
China Scholarship Council(202008080097)
Cross-domain research and development has prevailed in regional transformation and disruptive innovation in the last 15 years. Recently, a new concept, termed combinatorial knowledge bases (CKBs), offers insights into combining knowledge dynamics and is considered a good approach to explore recombinant innovative activities. Here, we review the literature on CKBs in Western economic geography, and we introduce a research agenda for CKBs in China’s economic geography. Concerning the latter, four aspects are elaborated: the co-evolution of the innovation chain and industrial chain, the geography of innovative activities, innovative entrepreneurship and new path development, and innovation system reconfiguration. This paper contributes to theoretical studies of China’s geography by linking CKBs to Chinese-specific phenomena.
XUE Shuaijun , LIU Chengliang . Combinatorial knowledge dynamics, innovative performance, and transition studies[J]. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2023 , 33(4) : 705 -718 . DOI: 10.1007/s11442-023-2102-1
Figure 1 Four topics and related questions against the background of China’s transformationSources: Liu et al., 2019; Xu and Hua, 2020; Cao et al., 2019; Duan et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2018; Liu and Yan, 2022; Fu, 2016; 2020; He et al., 2019; Zhang and Rigby, 2022; Howell, 2020a; Guo et al., 2016 and the authors |
Table 1 Research progress against the background of China’s transformation and a CKB perspective |
China’s transformation | Co-evolution of innovation chains and industrial chains | Geography of innovative activities | Entrepreneurs, innovative entrepreneurship and new path development | Innovation system reconfiguration | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Research progress in China | Have done | Local knowledge absorptive capacity, innovation input and innovation output, and innovation efficiency | Three methods for constructing an innovation network, the linkage between technology transfer and local capacities, a top-down approach and successful assignment | Geography of the growth path of entrepreneurs, measurements of entrepreneurship, spatial differences of entrepreneurship and influencing factors, entrepreneurship and economic development/corporate performance | An important indicator for evaluating regional innovation capacity, technology transfer between public institutes and firms |
Have not done | Relationship between basic and applied research, the complex interaction of diversified actors in the co-evolu- tion, and the process of innovation chain breakage and failed evolution | Attributes of knowledge/ technology and the bottom-up approach | Diversity of regional entrepreneurship and regional new path development | Interaction among diversified actors, spillover effects of knowledge and economic growth, and a comparative study of China and other countries. | |
CKB perspective | Focus on | The layout planning of innovation chains, analyzing the complex interaction of multiple actors | Complementarity or relatedness of knowledge flow between cities, regional economic complexity | Dynamic capabilities of entrepreneurs and diversified entrepreneurship | Innovation output, the interaction between multiple actors associated with the digital R&D platform, and a comparative study of different regions or countries |
[1] |
|
[2] |
|
[3] |
|
[4] |
|
[5] |
|
[6] |
|
[7] |
|
[8] |
|
[9] |
|
[10] |
|
[11] |
|
[12] |
|
[13] |
|
[14] |
|
[15] |
|
[16] |
|
[17] |
|
[18] |
|
[19] |
|
[20] |
|
[21] |
|
[22] |
|
[23] |
|
[24] |
|
[25] |
|
[26] |
|
[27] |
|
[28] |
|
[29] |
|
[30] |
|
[31] |
|
[32] |
|
[33] |
|
[34] |
|
[35] |
|
[36] |
|
[37] |
|
[38] |
|
[39] |
|
[40] |
|
[41] |
|
[42] |
|
[43] |
|
[44] |
|
[45] |
|
[46] |
|
[47] |
|
[48] |
|
[49] |
|
[50] |
|
[51] |
|
[52] |
|
[53] |
|
[54] |
|
[55] |
|
[56] |
|
[57] |
|
[58] |
|
[59] |
|
/
〈 | 〉 |