International Journal of Innovation Studies (“IJIS”) starts publication since March 2017 (ISSN: 2096-2487; CN: 10-1440/G3) in English, as sponsored by Science Press and undertaken by the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM) and the Research Center for Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University. IJIS is an international, interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed open access English journal, about which the first issue was published online this March, and it has been listed in the program for enhancing international influence of scientific and technological periodicals by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST). It seeks to advance the theoretical and managerial knowledge of innovation. It aims to provide a high-end platform for innovation researchers to generate new and exciting findings on the basics of innovation for human wellbeing.

International Journal of Innovation Studies

Professor CHEN Jin from the Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy of Tsinghua SEM, Director of the Research Center for Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University, acts as Editor-in-Chief for IJIS. Professor CHEN has long been dedicated to the research into technological innovation management and the studies on policies of science and technology, and has engaged in in-depth studies on independent innovation, open innovation, total innovation, collaborative innovation and other associated theoretical paradigms. A leading researcher in independent and collaborative innovation, he is also editor-in-chief or associate editor to a number of renowned international journals.   

The entire editorial board and the advisory group comprise top scholars and experts from China and overseas who all play an active role in the forefront of innovation studies, of which 31 come from Asian countries and regions including China, Hong Kong and Japan, 10 from the United States and Canada, and 18 from Europe including the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Denmark, etc.

This journal will be focusing on latest research findings that are innovative, high-level and of great scientific significance in terms of basic theory and applied research in innovation studies. It summarizes major research programs in the field of innovation studies, key scientific research projects, representative achievements of key research projects and research progresses in a systematic way, evaluates on situations of ongoing researches and studies, and proposes on the direction for current and future studies. Also concentrating on the innovation studies in a multidisciplinary context, IJIS will cover and publish multidisciplinary research findings involving economics, management, sociology, philosophy, natural science, engineering science, psychology, public policy etc., and call for unique observation for innovation and multidisciplinary research method, with the overall objective to discover the law of innovation for the human being.

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Volume 1, Issue 1, 2017