The BRICS countries are important emerging force in the world of technological innovation. Although affected by the international situation, the scale of their patent cooperation network has been declining and the cooperation among the five countries is not close, their statuses have been steadily increasing. China has been increasing its activity and influence in both patent and paper cooperation network, China has great advantages in information and resource control; Russia and India have similar status, Russia's international patent and paper cooperation status has been improved, while India's status is weakening; Brazil has performance better in paper cooperation network than patent cooperation network, Brazil is in the core area of paper network; but in the patent network, it is located in the periphery area with South Africa.