The Evolutionary Game Mechanism of Enterprises Collaborative Innovation in Innovation Ecosystem

Abstract

Innovation ecosystem is a technological innovation system based on knowledge spillover and resource sharing with typical characteristics of the natural ecosystem, which establishes a symbiotic and co-evolutionary competition-corporation relationship among enterprises. Economic globalization has been changing the competition pattern. The strategic choices on collaborative innovation of the core enterprises (leaders) species and the small and medium-sized enterprises (followers) species proved that, the increase of cost in independent innovation can promote the innovation cooperation among enterprises, and the continuing increase of input on collaborative innovation will affect the stability of collaborative innovation among enterprises. Therefore, developing institutional environment of funding, resource sharing and industrial policy support are beneficial to collaborative innovation and significant in the development of innovation ecosystem.