Research on an Enterprise Green Innovation Ecosystem From the Vulnerability Perspective: Evolutionary Game and Simulation

Abstract

Peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality have become one of the main goals of most countries globally. Important in this context is the coordinated green development of core enterprises and upstream and downstream enterprises. Effective solutions lie in developing an enterprise green innovation ecosystem. From the perspective of the vulnerability enterprises face as they build a green innovation ecosystem, this paper uses evolutionary game theory to study the three-party evolutionary game model in which core enterprises take the lead and upstream and downstream enterprises are the participants. It then analyzes the impact of four measurement types core enterprises take and the initial willingness of the three parties on the system evolution. The conclusions are as follows: (1) The vulnerability of the enterprise green innovation ecosystem is quite different in different development stages. (2) The impact is gradually weaker of the four synergies between core enterprises and upstream and downstream enterprises on the healthy operation of the system. (3) The initial willingness of the three parties has a significant impact on the system vulnerability, and the difference is large. When core enterprises actively promote green innovation and upstream and downstream enterprises have a high initial willingness to adopt it, system vulnerability is at its lowest. Finally, combined with the findings from the numerical simulation analysis, some suggestions are made to guide the effective reduction of vulnerability and the healthy operation of the enterprise’s green innovation ecosystem.

Keywords

• Evolutionary game
• green innovation ecosystem
• sustainable development
• vulnerability