Abstract:In recent years,consumers,who gather through online communities,have exhibited strong innovation potential and thus caught wide attention of practitioners and researchers.At present,consumer innovation research,which is relatively scarce in China,has gradually become an important research field.Based on a review of related empirical research literature,the paper thoroughly analyses the present situation of the research from three perspectives of subject,process and integration of innovation,finally discusses the defective fields and looks forward to the future directions of the research.