Abstract:This paper takes the literatures about innovation chain from 1995 to 2018 in the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database as samples, and makes a visualization study of innovation chain based on the bibliometric analysis method by using CiteSpace. The results show that: (1)The domestic researches of innovation chain can be divided into 11 clusters: global innovation chain, manufacturing innovation chain, scientific and technological service, technological innovation, and innovation-driven and so on. (2)Scholars’ focus changes from innovation chain to industry chain and then to innovation, which basically follows the law from theory construction to theory application. (3)The frontier and hot topics include strategic emerging industries as research objects, and collaborative innovation and technological innovation as research issues. Finally, the paper puts forward the prospect of future innovation chain research.