A novel modelling study on innovation Co-Evolution mechanisms of automobile industrial clusters

The aggregated behaviour of technology innovation in automobile enterprises has similar characteristics to biotic population. Based on industrial ecology and biological co-evolution, this paper proposes an innovation ecosystem for automobile industrial clusters. With the logistic equation describing the growth law of biotic population, the mathematical models of innovation co-evolution mechanisms are formulated, solved and analysed under 3 relationships: i) non-predation competition, ii) commensalism (where one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm), and iii) original collaboration. These 3 models are applied to describe the enterprises’ relationships in the innovation system of automobile industrial clusters. With the analysis results, this paper proposes some thoughts and suggestions on building and developing innovation ecosystems for these clusters. © 2016, UK Simulation Society. All rights reserved.