Enterprise clusters are “industrial clusters”. It refers to a spatial economic collective that is closely connected through criss-crossing network relationships among numerous enterprises of different sizes with division of labor and collaboration that are concentrated in specific industries in a certain area, as well as various institutions and organizations related to their development.
The industrial chain is often used as a link to vertically link upstream R&D, midstream production and processing, downstream sales and other related enterprises and institutions. It is an efficient production organization form with obvious correlation and agglomeration effects.
It is conducive to gathering factors of production, optimizing resource allocation, accelerating institutional innovation, significantly reducing production and transaction costs of enterprises, and thereby enhancing the overall competitiveness of enterprises and regions. It is an important way to promote regional economic growth.
Business population:
Refers to the geographical concentration of companies and institutions in the same industry or products with substitute functions. A business population is those that rely on the same physical and social environment, dependence ***A collection of companies with the same resources.
Under normal circumstances, enterprise development can always form enterprise populations, which are born, reproduced and expanded in the form of enterprise populations. Therefore, enterprise populations belong to a basic unit that exists in the overall enterprise concept. The enterprise population is not only a collection of individual enterprises, it also has higher-level characteristics, and has various relationships with the environment as a whole. Therefore, the enterprise population is the basic unit of the enterprise ecosystem.
From an evolutionary point of view, the evolutionary process is the process of changes in individual genes in the enterprise population from one generation to another, so the population is an evolutionary unit.