Research Article

An Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Innovation Network Structure on Crossover Innovation Performance of Emerging Technologies

Table 1

Indicators of network topology analysis.

IndicatorDefinition

Number of the nodesTotal number of nodes in the network
Number of connecting linesTotal number of links in the network
Network densityRatio of actual links to all possible links in the network
Average degreeThe degree is the sum of the connectivity of a node and the nodes adjacent to it, and the average degree is calculated by dividing the sum of the degrees of all nodes by the total number of nodes in the network
Average path lengthAverage of the path length between any node pair in the network
Clustering coefficientThe clustering coefficient of a node is the ratio of the actual number of links between neighboring nodes to the maximum possible number of links between them. The clustering coefficient of the network is the average of the clustering coefficients of all nodes