区域创新研究的理论演进与研究进展

Theoretical progress and prospects of regional innovation research

创新是区域发展的重要动力。20世纪80年代以来,地理学和相关学科学者高度关注创新与区域发展的关系,开展了丰富的区域创新研究。在研究早期,区域创新研究以区域创新系统理论为主要研究方法,探索了创新活动的空间聚集机制及区域特性。进入21世纪后,随着经济全球化的深化,气候、环境和能源等方面的全球挑战的突显,区域创新研究在理论基础和研究对象上呈现多元化的趋势。尽管已有国内外学者对区域创新研究进行理论梳理,但未充分关注区域创新研究的社会经济背景变化及其对研究的影响。为此,论文全面梳理了20世纪80年代以来区域创新的研究范式变革的社会经济背景、研究主张及主要研究话题,揭示了区域创新研究逐渐由封闭转向开放及由静态转向动态转型演进的内在逻辑,指出了技术创新系统、演化经济地理学和转型研究等研究视角对区域创新研究的贡献,强调区域创新研究需要重视全球知识对区域创新活动的重要性并审视创新的价值和方向。在总结国内外区域创新研究新进展的基础上,论文最后提出未来区域创新研究需要更加关注创新的多尺度、差异性、负效应及国家的作用。

Innovation is an important driving force for regional development.Since the 1980s,scholars in geography and related disciplines have paid great attention to the relationship between innovation and regional development,and have carried out a wealth of research on regional innovation.In the early stage,regional innovation research took regional innovation system as the main research approach and explored the spatial aggregation mechanism and regional characteristics of innovation activities.In the 21st century,however,with the deepening of economic globalization and the prominence of global challenges in the fields of climate,environment,and energy,regional innovation research has shown a diversified trend in theory and research objects.Although scholars have theoretically reviewed regional innovation research,they have not paid sufficient attention to the changes in the socioeconomic background and theories of regional innovation research.To fill this gap,this article comprehensively comprehended the socioeconomic background,research propositions,and main research topics of regional innovation research paradigm change since the 1980s,revealing the evolution of regional innovation research that shifted from closed to open region precondition and from static to dynamic and transformative analysis,indicating the contribution of other perspectives such as technological innovation system,evolutionary economic geography,and transition studies,and suggesting the importance of global knowledge and the normative turn in regional innovation research.Moreover,after summarizing the current progress,this article proposed that future regional innovation research needs to pay more attention to multi-scalar and comparative regional innovation research and focus on the negative side and the role of the state in regional innovation activities.