ABSTRACT

Open innovation (OI) is a crucial strategy regardless of sector, public or private, or academic or practical. However, the concept itself is often considered abstract and broad. Therefore, this study explored the coauthorship network and its groups to empirically observe the phenomenon of an open innovation. It also examined the semantic network of subject fields in open innovation research. We used coauthorship data to observe collaboration among authors. To examine how an open innovation is conceptualised and explained in academia, we used the abstracts of papers and the classification data of the journals where the papers were published. The results of the analysis found a mainstream group, which is a small group-to-group connection. We observed that the small groups are connected by key authors. We found that a social network of authorship and a semantic network of abstracts are both closely related. Our results provide a deeper understanding of an open innovation.

摘要

开放式创新 (OI) 是一项至关重要的战略，无论是公共部门还是私人部门，学术还是实践领域。然而，这个概念本身通常被认为是抽象和广泛的。因此，本研究探索了合着网络及其团体，以实证观察开放式创新的现象。它还检查了开放式创新研究中学科领域的语义网络。我们使用共同作者数据来观察作者之间的合作。为了研究开放式创新在学术界是如何被概念化和解释的，我们使用了论文摘要和发表论文的期刊的分类数据。分析结果发现了一个主流群体，这是一个小群体与群体之间的联系。我们观察到这些小组是由主要作者联系在一起的。我们发现作者身份的社交网络和摘要的语义网络都密切相关。我们的结果提供了对开放式创新的更深入理解。