A collaboration-driven mode for improving sustainable cooperation in smart industrial parks

Abstract

With the rapid development of intelligent means, sustainable cooperation has become a major obstacle for smart industrial parks due to insufficient information sharing between stakeholders. Currently, despite progress in information sharing, not every stakeholder has enough knowledge or enthusiasm about information sharing. Therefore, a reasonable collaboration-driven mode focused on information sharing can support the sustainable development of smart industrial parks. Based on the results of the specific cooperation needs of Chinese smart industrial parks, which were studied by Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats analysis (SWOT), a collaboration-driven mode is proposed in this study. It consists of four parts, i.e., cooperation promoters, contents of information sharing, diffusing professional knowledge, and incentive strategies of information sharing, and is supported by two layers, i.e., decision layers and implementation layers. Promoters were determined by Social Network Analysis (SNA) and include park management committees, enterprises, research institutions, and local governments. Based on the SNA, contents of information sharing and diffusing professional knowledge paths have been designed. Incentive strategies of information sharing were explored by Rough Set. The collaboration-driven mode was verified using an empirical case-study, which showed that the collaboration-driven mode is feasible. These findings offer a good reference for the sustainable cooperation of Chinese smart industrial parks.