不同于以往首先在发达国家创新后再向发展中国家传递的传统模式，反向创新特指专门为新兴市场开发的创新产品和服务在引入发达市场后也能获得采纳的创新形式与扩散路径，反映出新兴市场地位变迁、全球研发资源分布与创新成果跨国界流动的新趋势。本文在梳理创新全球化进程基础上，对反向创新与其他新兴市场创新的专有概念进行了辨析，描述了反向创新的主要实现路径，初步构建出该领域的研究框架，最后指出未来研究方向。

Contrary to the traditional pattern in which innovations are first initiated in advanced countries and then diffused to developing ones, reverse innovation is the kind of innovation first developed or adopted in emerging markets and then accepted by advanced markets, reflecting the new tendency of change of emerging market status, distribution of global R&D resources and cross-border transferring of innovations. Based on the summary of the evolutionary process of innovation globalization, the paper discriminates the reverse innovation from the other innovation concepts which are specifically created for emerging market and then describes the different realization paths of the innovation. Finally, after developing the comprehensive theoretical framework in the research field, some research directions are suggested for future reference.