Research Progress on Synergic Innovation Theory - A Literature Review

Abstract

Synergic innovation is a new paradigm, is the new progress of innovation system theory. Reviewed the evolution of innovation theory, analyzed the background of synergic innovation theory. The study has been expanded from inside to outside, covered three fields, which was synergic innovation within enterprise, vertical synergic innovation inter-enterprise, horizontal synergic innovation within multi-agents. Horizontal synergic innovation is the main form of synergic innovation. Factors of synergic innovation have been expanded from the "University-industry-government" which advocated by the "Theory of Triple Helix". Different methods have been developed to measure the synergic innovation effect and synergic degree. Furthermore the influential factors and the decision mechanism of synergic innovation behavior has been studied.