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The influence of typological characteristics and imitation of technologies on competitive intensity in a cluster

The article studies the dependence of competitive intensity in a horizontal economic system on the specifics of this system. The analysis was carried out using agent-based modeling in the case of a conventional cluster. It has been shown that systems with the maximal intensity of internal competition operate in highly profitable fields and are characterized by high market concentration. Two fundamental processes that are often opposed to each other in clusters, namely competition and cooperation between agents, are linked within one model. We have found out that cost-free imitation of technologies generally does not affect competitive intensity within the cluster while costly imitation decreases internal competition. In both cases, the profitability factor is more significant than the structure one (or market concentration). Competitive inten­sity within low-profitable clusters with the prevalence of small business dec­reases as imitation costs grow. The highest level of competition under the costly interaction of cluster's participants, characterized by a different ability to sustain contacts, could be achieved in companies systems with more con­nections. In the clusters of this type, competitive intensity increases with gro­wing imitation costs. We have demonstrated the possibility to achieve different combinations of competition and cooperation processes, which could be inde­pendent, contra- and co-directional under different conditions. These results confirm a necessity to consider the typological features of a managed object while developing regulatory mechanisms

Markov L. S. Lmarkov@ieie.nsc.ru

Kotelkin D. D. kdd92@mail.ru

Petukhova M. V. pm1986@mail.ru

Keywords: competition cluster agent-based modeling imitation of technologies evolutionary approach

Agent-Based Approach to Modeling Sectoral Evolution: Russian Coal Industry

The paper proves an urgency of applying an evolutionary approach to study how economic systems progress, and it presents the structure of the Russian steam coal facilities considered as a system of interacting agents and described by an agent-based model developed by the author. The model, in the authors’ opinion, could be regarded quite applicable to analyze the industry dynamics as well as an ‘alternative history’ of the industry in terms of competition between agents of the economic system

Markov L. S. Lmarkov@ieie.nsc.ru

Markova V. M. markova_vm@mail.ru

Kotelkin D. D. kdd92@mail.ru

Keywords: evolutionary economics agent-based modeling steam coal production

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