Innovation Network Structure of Industrial Cluster of New Energy Vehicles in the Northeast China

Abstract

The new energy vehicles industry is the strategic development direction of China’s vehicles industry when there is an important need for this industry to realize the goal of energy conservation and environment protection, and of industry transformation and upgrading. It is an important approach that cooperatively innovating in the innovation network of industrial cluster to improve the industry’s innovation level and core competitiveness. Based on the empirical investigation of the innovation network of industrial cluster of new energy vehicles in the northeast China, this paper uses complex network theory to study the network structure from the perspectives of whole network, community and ego network of Hub. Moreover, this paper further discusses the matching problem of Hubs’ influence in the network. In addition, the relative suggestions about network governance on the innovation network of industrial cluster of new energy vehicles in the northeast China are proposed.