A Systematic Review of Enterprise Innovation Ecosystems

Lijie Feng, Jiarui Lu and Jinfeng Wang
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Lijie Feng: School of Management Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Jiarui Lu: School of Management Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Jinfeng Wang: School of Economic & Management, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 10, 1-26

Abstract: With rapid changes and increasing uncertainty in the market environment, enterprise innovation ecosystems (EIEs) have increasingly been promoted in the past decade. Nevertheless, research on EIEs has fallen into a fuzzy state. Scholars have scattered views on the subject and have not systematically classified it, leading to a discussion regarding its conceptual rigor and comprehensive analysis. The purpose of this article is to conduct integrative research on EIEs and to examine all the relevant issues of existing views. This study screened all relevant topics in the past decade through the WOS database and identified significant journal articles. By reviewing and sorting out the relevant thematic literature from 2011 to 2020 and performing keyword cluster analysis, the research focus and hot spots of EIEs are determined. The entity structure, main types, dynamic mechanism, and evolution mechanism of EIEs were elaborated, and the definition of an EIE is finally determined. Through an analysis of the emerging viewpoints of EIEs, the hot spots of this topic are discussed. These streams provide opportunities for further research to consolidate the concepts of EIEs.

Keywords: innovation ecosystems; cluster analysis; perspective analysis; theory evolution; systematic review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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