Evolutionary Dynamics of Interfirm Cooperative System for Radical Innovation from Knowledge Collaboration Perspective

Table 1

Parameters in the simulation experiment.

Parameters	Value range	Meaning	Experiment conditions
		Index of periphery firms’ knowledge input stock
		Index of periphery firms’ knowledge integration capability
		Index of periphery firms’ capital investment
		Proportion of periphery firms’ knowledge input to capital investment
		Dimensionless parameter	means low knowledge potential difference; means critical knowledge potential difference; means high knowledge potential difference.
		Initial short-term expected return change rate of periphery firms, indicating the initial contribution to the system	means initial short-term profit of periphery firms; means periphery firms make no different contribution to the initial short-term of the system; means initial short-term losses of periphery firms.
		Yield rate of the cooperation system
		Changes in the frequency of the system’s expected return
		Frequency of the system’s expected return
		Changes in the frequency of incentives to periphery firms by core manufacture	Periphery firms have rent-seeking behaviour and the system is stable.
		Ratio of change in the frequency of incentives of core manufacturer to the frequency of change in the total expected return of the system	means that core manufacturer takes preincentives; means that core manufacturer takes ex-postincentives; means that core manufacturer takes the in-process incentives.