Over the last few decades, the aviation industry has produced several innovative solutions that have benefited the air travel industry and many other industrial and service organisations. However, few attempts have been made to map out these innovations and, more importantly, assess how they add value to aviation businesses. This paper aims to address this gap by providing a Systematic Literature Review to analyse themes, content relationships, approaches, and how innovations create value in this sector. We achieve this aim by analysing 57 peer-reviewed academic publications from 1999 to 2018. The thematic and content analysis made it possible to consolidate the findings by developing an overview of the themes and how innovation has supported them. The results identified ten main themes, i.e. airports, services, management, technology, airlines, system, development, market, customers, and processes. Through the content analysis, 114 value-creating innovations were identified, primarily towards ‘efficiency’, ‘convenience, new features and portfolio differentiation’, and ‘sustainable growth and environment'.

在过去的几十年中，航空业产生了一些创新的解决方案，这些解决方案使航空旅行业以及许多其他工业和服务组织受益。但是，几乎没有人尝试绘制这些创新，更重要的是评估它们如何为航空业务增加价值。本文旨在通过提供系统的文献综述来分析这一差距，以分析主题，内容关系，方法以及创新如何在该领域创造价值。我们通过分析1999年至2018年间57篇经过同行评审的学术出版物来实现此目标。主题和内容分析使得可以通过对主题以及创新如何支持主题进行概述来合并发现。结果确定了十个主要主题，即机场，服务，管理，技术，航空公司，系统，开发，市场，客户和流程。通过内容分析，确定了114个创造价值的创新，主要朝着“效率”，“便利性，新功能和投资组合差异”以及“可持续增长和环境”方向发展。