Newswise — Smart medical is the product of the deep integration of the healthcare service industry and information technology. With the advent of new-generation information technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing, along with the support of government policies, the application scope of smart healthcare continues to expand. In an article (doi: 10.
1016/j.jdec.2023.
06.001) published in the Journal of Digital Economy , a duo of scholars from the School of Management at Shanghai University used cooperative patent data from the smart medical industry to study the factors and mechanisms of innovation network formation, supplementing the research on the endogenous factors driving network innovation in this field. "Innovation networks are interactive organizational relationships constructed through mutual cooperation among innovation participants," explains Professor Chao Lu, the first author of the study.
"Besides external factors such as the geographical distance between nodes and the organizational attributes of nodes, the structural characteristics of the network itself, such as geometrically weighted edge sharing and degree centrality, also influence network formation.” Given that the innovation network in the smart medical industry is rapidly forming, a comprehensive analysis of the formation mechanism is essential. “Most existing studies in the field of smart medical are qualitative in nature, and few have focused on using quantitative me.
