Titled “The Impact Mechanism of Future Industry Emergence: A Perspective Based on Ecosystem Co-evolution”, a co-authored paper by Professor Yu Miaojie, President of Liaoning University (LNU), and Xu Jin, Associate Professor at Business School of LNU, has recently been accepted for publication in Social Sciences of Beijing.
Paper Summary
The emergence of future industries unfolds within an ever-changing process of co-evolution, and future industry ecosystems exhibit pronounced multi-level structure and complexity. However, the co-evolutionary mechanisms by which interdependent actors across different organizational levels of future industry ecosystems influence one another remain unclear; the impact of inter-organizational collaboration on future industry emergence remains underexplored; and the dynamic evolution of future industry ecosystems still leaves considerable room for research. There is an urgent need for a research framework that can effectively capture the elements of complex systems and cross-organizational co-evolution. To this end, this paper adopts an ecosystem co-evolution perspective to analyze how symbiosis shapes industry emergence and how diversity shapes ecosystems. It also outlines the research framework for ecosystem co-evolution and summarizes the mechanisms underlying the emergence of future industries. It then outlines an analytical framework for the emergence of future industries. This framework draws on systemic innovation ecosystem effects, the impact of government and policy systems on industry emergence, and the advantages and application potential of patch dynamics theory. The paper emphasizes that the patch-dynamics framework simultaneously captures the co-evolutionary dynamics of the ecosystem across multiple organizational levels, thereby facilitating analysis of the mechanisms shaping future industry emergence and providing insights for research on future industry ecosystems and complex systems management. On this basis, the paper outlines future research directions, including exploring future industry emergence from the perspectives of ecosystem co-evolution and interdisciplinary approaches; examining how industrial symbiosis and industrial diversity shape inter-organizational co-evolution; investigating how inter-organizational co-evolution drives future industry emergence; and discussing the design of collaborative governance strategies and effective governance frameworks for enabling the future industry emergence.
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Launched in March 1986, Social Sciences of Beijing is a comprehensive academic journal in philosophy and social sciences, administered and sponsored by the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences. It covers a broad range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including literature, philosophy, history, economics, management, sociology, political science, law, education, and psychology. The journal tracks the latest developments in research across basic disciplines, focuses on theoretical and practical issues in the new era, and publishes multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research findings.
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Author Biographies
Yu Miaojie is President of LNU. He is a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society (FREcon), an IEA Fellow, a Distinguished Professor of under the National Talent Program, a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, a Beijing Outstanding Young Scientist, and a Boya Chair Professor at Peking University. He serves as a deputy to the 14th National People’s Congress, a Special Supervisor of the National Commission of Supervision, and an Associate Editor of The Economic Journal, a leading international journal in economics. He is among the top 1% of the most highly cited economists worldwide in economics and management. He remains the only Chinese scholar to have won the Royal Economic Society Prize. He is editor-in-chief of Chinese Open Economy, a key textbook on original philosophy and social sciences in China. He enjoys special government allowances from the State Council.
Xu Jin is a Young Talent under the Liaoning Provincial Talent Program, Associate Professor at Business School of LNU, and a master’s supervisor. Her research interests include industrial ecosystems, population ecology, innovation management, and the platform economy. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Technovation, Nature portfolio journals, International Review of Economics & Finance, and Science Research Management. She is a member of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), the European Academy of Management (EURAM), and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and serves as a reviewer for the EURAM Annual Conference and for journals including Technovation and Nature portfolio journals. She has been invited to present her research multiple times at academic conferences, such as the EGOS Colloquium, the EURAM Annual Conference, and the INFORMS Annual Meeting. She is currently the principal investigator of four ongoing projects, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Science and Technology Innovation Team Project (Young and Middle-aged Talent Team Cultivation Project) of the Educational Department of Liaoning Province, the Natural Science Foundation of the Joint Program of the Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Plan, and the Liaoning Provincial Social Science Planning Fund.
Translated by: Zeng Xi
Edited by: Mark Moore
Proofread by: Li Zhibin
Reviewed by: Jin Jinghua
