Collaborative innovation network is considered as a series of complicated dynamic open innovation activities involved in multi-organizations, multi-levels, multi-stages and diverse factors of creation, which emphasizes the connection, communication and cooperation among innovation individuals under the interaction of technology, information, organization, knowledge, management and so on. This paper tries to comb and make a forecast in the related areas in light of the researches home and abroad starting from the origins and developments of collaborative innovation network researches and concerning the following four aspects: attributes and classification of collaborative innovation network, network governance mechanics, network operation mechanics, and network models.