Interaction Preference of Firms in Industrial Cluster and Evolution of Knowledge Networks: A Model and Simulation

Evolution of microcosmic knowledge network (KN) is precondition and important part of evolution procedure of industrial cluster network. In this paper, firms in industrial cluster are classified as task-lead and knowledge-lead according their preference of interaction among them. A Multi-agent-based model is constructed and simulated using the software Blanche which is a popular tool for research of multi-agent networks. The characteristics and the effect to KN evolution of task-lead KN and knowledge-lead KN are analyzed based on the simulation of the model. Finally, the limitation of the research is concluded.