Research on Upgrade Path from Industrial Cluster to Innovative Cluster

Innovative cluster is a new model of economic development with innovation as the impetus. It is a senior stage of industrial cluster development, and a frontier field of international academic research. This article firstly reviews the transition procedure of economic patterns, indicating the inevitability of the mutual permeability between the study of "innovation" and that of "cluster". It further discusses the differences and relationship between industrial clusters and innovative clusters. Besides, based on a comparison between biological population and industrial cluster, the thesis analyzes the self evolution of the industrial cluster by means of population ecology theory and divides its life cycle of development. What\´s more, it has pointed out that the evolution process from industrial cluster to innovative cluster is one that ascends constantly along the global value chain. Finally, it analyzes the impetus of the industrial cluster evolution and portrays the evolution path of the industrial cluster.