Research on the Structural Characteristics and Evolution of China’s Medical and Health Innovation Cooperation Network Based on the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Awards

Abstract Cooperative innovation is an important means to promote the development of medical and health undertakings. Based on the award data of the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award from 2003 to 2022, this paper constructs an innovation cooperation network and uses social network analysis to explore the structure and evolution characteristics of China’s medical and health innovation cooperation network. The research shows that China’s medical and health innovation cooperation continues to increase, but the development of regional cooperation is not balanced; the scale of the network is expanding, and the small world effect is obvious, but the network density is relatively low, and there is still a large space for development of institutional innovation cooperation; Hospitals and universities play an important role in the network; The medical and health innovation cooperation network has the characteristics of community. Finally, policy suggestions are put forward from the aspects of strengthening regional balanced development, giving play to the radiation role of core institutions in the innovation cooperative network, and promoting diversified innovation cooperation, to form a balanced development innovation cooperation system, a robust innovation cooperation network ecology, and a stable innovation cooperation network structure.