With the increasing demand for digital innovation scenarios, it is important to complement and improve the policy system for the governance of digital innovation activities. Combining the previous research results on the analysis of antecedent variables, basic effects and potential mechanisms of digital innovation, and based on the citation analysis of digital innovation topics based on the Citespace method, we find that in the past two decades, the topic of digital innovation policy research has gradually shifted from focusing on “constraining policies to control negative impacts” to focusing on “constructive policies to expand positive impacts”. The digital transformation has brought about multidimensional and profound impacts on the governance of innovation activities, and it is necessary to accelerate the theoretical research on policy frameworks for the new areas of technology socialization effects. Summarizing some of the important progresses, we propose a policy framework covering three aspects: policy needs for sustainable transformation of digital innovation, policy orientation and policy dimensions for sustainable transformation of digital innovation, creating R&D opportunities, optimizing R&D organization, building ecological advantages, improving R&D governance, knowledge creation, enabling applications, collaborative promotion, standardizing management, national digital innovation system, digital innovation foundation, data governance capacity, digital security and other aspects of the conceptual framework of the basic policies for sustainable transformation of digital innovation. The research viewpoints and conclusions are of theoretical reference value for further research on key policy conditions for digital innovation, major policy impact effects and digital innovation governance mechanisms.

Digital technology is subverting the traditional corporate R&D paradigm, and China has embarked on a characteristic path in exploring digital R&D. Firstly, we sort out the connotation of digital R&D and digital R&D system, and then focus on the fields of new energy vehicles, banking sector, rare and precious metal material genetic engineering, we summarize the governance experience of China's R&D digital transformation from the aspects of organization reshaping, data governance, data empowerment, efficiency evaluation, and multi-agent collaboration, a governance framework is proposed based on these. Finally, management inspirations are given from four aspects: user value-driven agile organization reengineering, system support of data governance, digital empowerment of R&D management activities, and giving play to the leading role of the government. The research conclusions are expected to provide references for digital R&D activity managers and policymakers.