On Coordinating Knowledge Investment in the Cooperative Product Development in the Emerging Industryrs Platform Innovation Ecosystem

Abstract

This essay studies the knowledge investment coordinating mechanism of the core enterprise, which plays both the role of the platform innovation ecosystem manager and the role of knowledge investment in the cooperative product development in the platform innovation ecosystem. The study shows that the profit distributed to the core enterprise and the agent enterprises of the platform innovation ecosystem is positively correlated with the impact weight of their knowledge investment on the knowledge production value, i.e. the higher the impact weight is, the more profit they may gain, that the larger the number of the agent enterprises in the platform innovation ecosystem is, the higher level of knowledge investment effort the core enterprise will make, the larger the core enterprise's total gain will be, and that the higher the higher the knowledge coordination degree between the core enterprise and the agent enterprises is, the larger the core enterprise's total gain will be.