Innovation and Evolution of Digital Industry Clusters
As emphasized in the report to the 20th CPC National Congress,"we will accelerate the development of the digital economy,further integrate it with the real economy,and build internationally competitive digital industry clusters",which has become a significant driving force in economic development.Although existing research has provided crucial theoretical underpinnings for understanding digital industrial clusters,digital industrial clusters have not been fully explored in the academic domain,and the differences in evolution paths and competitive advantage formation mechanisms of various types of digital industrial clusters need to be studied.This paper conducts a systematic review of literature on industrial cluster upgrading and digital industrial clusters and divides digital industrial clusters into industrial digitalization clusters and digital industrialization clusters.Industrial digitalization clusters refer to the industrial cooperation model formed by leveraging digital technology to comprehensively and fully empower traditional clusters in all aspects,angles,and links.The traditional enterprises in the cluster follow the industrial logic and take traditional factors and data factors as the basis,forming a digital mirror image of physical aggregation in digital platforms and establishing an economic community based on the industrial chain.Digital industrialization clusters are new industries and business models generated by one or several digital native enterprises based on their digital innovation,developing new digital application scenarios,setting partner roles,and further expanding by leveraging platform resources.Such clusters are centered on digital native enterprises that follow the logic of digital innovation,take traditional factors and data factors as the basis,and reference the virtual aggregation organization of digital entities as a mirror image of the physical entity,forming an inseparable multi-sided collaborative innovation alliance.From the perspective of the innovation process,it tries to construct the evolution path of different types of digital industry clusters.The evolution of industrial digital cluster is mainly based on progressive digital empowerment,which has experienced from the supply chain optimization in the basic digital stage,to the cross-industry collaboration in the stage of multiple innovation,and then to the full chain integration in the stage of ecosystem construction,showing the characteristics of the steady improvement in traditional industries under the drive of technologies.The digital industrialization clusters are more dynamic and non-linear,and the evolution path is from the construction of a digital platform to dynamic innovation and then to the optimization of the ecosystem,which fully reflects the leading role of platform economy and network effect.Further,it puts forward some measures to promote the development of digital industrial clusters,such as developing digital infrastructure,cultivating leader enterprises of digital industrial clusters and formulating differentiated support policies for digital industrial clusters,which has enlightenment significance for clarifying the connotation of digital industrial clusters,promoting high-quality development of digital industrial clusters,and optimizing relevant support policies.
digital industry clusterscluster innovationcluster evolutionintegration of digital and real economy
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