Innovation Communities For Business Research

This article focuses on a review of innovation communities for business from science citation index expanded (SCI-EXPANED) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) database on web of science, concerning the rapid growth of interest in understanding innovation communities. Research results indicate that (1) the average number of published items is 1 in each year from 2011 to present; accordingly citations mainly distributes in recent 4 years, reaching climax of 27 in 2015; (2) the main research area is ENGINEERING, accounting for 50.000%, then followed by COMPUTER SCIENCE and INOFRMATION SCIENCE LIBRARY SCIENCE of 33.3337% respectively; (3) in the view of document types, 83.333% document is article; (4) Categories of COMPUTER SCIENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL, and INFORMATION SCIENCE LIBRARY SCIENCE rank in the top 3, accounting for 33.333% respectively. Overall, the related research topics can be classified into five aspects: business value of online innovation communities, value co-creation and co-Innovation, selective openness on value Creation, social innovation process and idea launchers for creating value.