Strategy of Cluster Innovation in the Economic Transformation of Resource Cities

The economic transformation of resource cities is one common worldwide problem. The resource cities in China are confronted with double difficulties at the same time-resource exhaustion and economic system transformation. The economic transformation and social stableness of such cities are the important issues in the development and harmony of China. Industrial clusters are the network organizations of cooperative innovation and the effective polices to improve the regional development. It is very necessary for Chinese cities to improve the innovation and cooperation among organizations by industrial clusters and formulate industrial policies in relevant industries to promote the improvement of regional innovation capability and economic transformation. The resource cities will be transformed from old industrial regions on the core of natural resources and capital into modern industrial cluster on the core of regional innovation capability and competence edge of the industry. This paper analyzes the conception of cluster innovation and introduces some experiences of Britain and Germany, then researches how the Chinese resource cities apply industrial clusters to strengthen the regional innovation capability.