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 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.
Given that the innovation network in the smart medical industry is rapidly forming, a comprehensive analysis of the formation mechanism is essential.
The authors found that among the main participants in the smart healthcare industry innovation network, similarities in organizational attributes, geographical proximity and more recent years of patent cooperation all promote the formation of network connections. Conversely, a pronounced core-periphery structure and lower network density can hinder the formation of diverse network connections to some extent, which is not conducive to the healthy development of the network.
Newswise/MJ
