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Key Resource Sharing and Sustainable Innovation in Innovation Consortium: A Multiagent Collaboration and Multihelix Perspective

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  • Yijiang Zhou
  • Jiayi Jia
  • Yongzeng Lai
  • Lin Li

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Faced with the intensification of international competition, the innovation consortium, as an important open innovation paradigm to promote the deep integration of industrial chain and innovation chain, has become a key path for the breakthrough of industrial core technology. However, there are some practical challenges in forming an innovation consortium, such as prominent sharing barriers of key resources and insufficient collaborative efficiency, which make it challenging to meet the needs of sustainable innovation. Based on this, this paper breaks through the traditional linear collaboration analysis framework. It constructs a game model of “leading enterprise‐cooperative organization‐government” to describe the interaction mechanism of multiagent key resource sharing decision‐making in an information asymmetric environment from the perspective of multiagent collaboration and multihelix. Vensim‐PLE simulation software is used to simulate and analyze the influencing factors of multihelix of key resource sharing. The results show that the degree of participation of various agents in sharing key resources is closely related to the sharing ability, cost, benefit, and coordination mechanism. In addition, improving the effectiveness of sharing key resources, enhancing the willingness and scope of sharing, and optimizing resource potential differentials can significantly promote the effect of multihelix of key resources. Therefore, this paper puts forward relevant management suggestions on improving innovation consortium's incentive and constraint mechanism, dynamic selection of partners, and construction of pricing and compensation mechanisms to enhance the innovation consortium's sustainable innovation. To sum up, this study not only expands the research paradigm of open innovation and enriches the connotation dimension of collaborative innovation theory but also provides new ideas for innovation consortiums under competitive environment to solve the dilemma of “resource island” and achieve sustainable collaborative innovation, which has significant practical value for guiding the breakthrough of industrial core technologies.

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  • Yijiang Zhou & Jiayi Jia & Yongzeng Lai & Lin Li, 2025. "Key Resource Sharing and Sustainable Innovation in Innovation Consortium: A Multiagent Collaboration and Multihelix Perspective," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 46(7), pages 3935-3947, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:mgtdec:v:46:y:2025:i:7:p:3935-3947
    DOI: 10.1002/mde.4563
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