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ABSTRACT
The high fragility and failure rate of technological innovation networks prevent firms and industries from successfully developing innovation capacity and competitiveness. This study offers a network perspective on how technology cluster coupling reinforces innovation network invulnerability. By using 142 patent citation networks from the renewable energy industry, we conduct patent citation network and regression analyses of a mediating model. The results show that network centralisation plays a partly negative mediating role in the positive relationship between technology cluster coupling and innovation network invulnerability. This study enriches the antecedent study of innovation network invulnerability by expanding interactions from the individual-level to the community-level and contributes to the internal mechanisms of technology cluster coupling and network invulnerability by emphasising the critical role of network centralisation. Our findings offer implications for policy makers who seek to govern technology clusters aimed at strengthening the steady development of innovation networks.
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Li Li
Li Li is a lecturer at the College of Economics and Management, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry. Her research interests include technology clusters and innovation networks. She has published 6 papers in Ivey Case, and domestic peer-reviewed journals in China.
Haifen Lin
Haifen Lin is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology. Her research focuses on management innovation. She has published more than 40 papers in Journal of Business Research (SSCI) and domestic peer-reviewed journals in China.
Yibo Lyu
Yibo Lyu is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology. His research focuses on open innovation ecosystems. He has published more than 40 papers in Technological Forecasting & Social Change (SSCI), Scientometrics (SSCI), Ivey Case, and domestic peer-reviewed journals in China.
Lu Cheng
Lu Cheng is a lecturer at the School of Maritime Economics and Management, Dalian Maritime University. Her research interests include open innovation and applications of computer simulation. She has published more than 8 papers in R&D Management (SSCI) and domestic peer-reviewed journals in China.