Evolutionary Game Analysis of Cooperative Innovation in Industrial Clusters

Innovation capability is a critical factor of the survival and continuous development of industrial clusters. The research of innovation mechanism not only plays a guiding role for the competitive advantages and development of industrial clusters, but also has important meaning for sustainable development of regional and even social economy. Cooperative innovation is a major operation form of cluster innovation. Considering the condition of the equality of innovation initiators and cooperators, an evolutionary game model was built based on Replicator Dynamic and the evolutionary process and results of cooperative innovation were analyzed. It was concluded that the deepness of cooperative innovation can be promoted by increasing the sharing private resources paid by initiators and cooperators. Finally the suggestions were indicated for promoting the cooperative innovation of industrial clusters.