Study On Organization Evolution Of Creative Industry Clustering Under The Ecological Constraint Mechanism

Achieving the transformation from "Made in China" to "Created in China" is one of the Twelfth Five-Years Plan’s strategic objectives. To achieve this strategic plan, the Chinese local governments are actively exploring the feasible path to optimize the economic structure and promote industrial upgrade. The development of creative industries seems to be an inevitable choice to accommodate the new circumstance. Many cities established a large number of creative industry parks years ago, however, after several years of development, many of those have not achieved the expected objectives. Thus, the underlying causes and the law of development of china’s creative industries, become the key issues which Chinese scholars must answer under the background of economic transformation.However, the existing research results can’t fully satisfy the practical needs. This paper, on the basis of previous research, put forward a theory which consists of four sets of issues, that is, creative industry clustering’s causes, its shape and selection, scale and relationships, and fluctuations, following the problem-oriented thought, to study the organizational evolution of the creative industry clustering. Moreover, the creative industry clustering is regarded as a relatively independent ecosystem under the analyze framework of the ecological constraint mechanism. By utilizing the theories of natural selection, community analysis and virus, the law of the development of creative industry clustering is observed and analyzed in this paper.This paper mainly consists of the following five aspects:Firstly, the paper studies the conditions of the limitations of creative industries. Taking the objective phenomenon that creative industries clustering in the city as a starting point, the paper compares the inherent requirements of creativity generation mechanisms and the basis of industrialized economy with the nature and the development of urban economy in a two-way aspects of endogenous causes and factors and external environment, summarizes the inner running trend of creative industries, argues from the perspective of historical evolution that the production of phenomenon of creative industries has ecological basis. Furthermore, a two-way matching theory (the matching of creative properties and urban property) of the creative industry clustering is established based on its internal requirement.Secondly, the paper studies the morphological characteristics of creative industries, describes the evolution characteristics of creative industry clustering under the endogenous selection based on the spontaneous choice behavior of creative enterprises and explains the theoretical reason that creative industry clustering has different development models. The creative industries endogenous morphology theory is then established.Thirdly, the ecological communities of creative industry clustering scale are analyzed in this paper. Based on the endogenous morphology theory, by applying theory of ecological communities, the scale of the creative industry clustering form changes and the objective phenomena such as the diversity of gathering, coexistence and symbiosis are inspected in this research. The equilibrium condition of scale is then obtained.Fourthly, this paper makes an origin analysis on the loss of creative property of the creative industry clustering. Aiming at the extrusion phenomenon of creative enterprises, the paper introduces virus model to study the important reasons for creative industry clustering scale changes and explore the results brought about by these changes.Lastly, combined with the research conclusion, theoretical proposals of policy intervention and future research directions are proposed.The main conclusions of this paper are:Firstly, the formation of creative industry clustering is a process of bilateral matching of both the creative attribute and city attribute. The creative industry clustering is essentially the internal requirement of creative generative mechanism and also a result of bilateral matching of both the foundation of industrialization economy and the nature along with the development of urban economy. In additional, the modern factor is the key element of promoting the formation of the creative industry clustering. Creative industries have the internal gathering trend to the city.Secondly, the style of creative industry clustering is a result of the natural selection of the creative enterprises, being expressed as learning and imitating from each other. In addition, the constraint condition of the realization of the natural selection for creative enterprises is the fluent information communication in clustering areas.Thirdly, under the ecological niche constraints, the creative industry clustering ultimately forms optimum scale.Fourthly, moderate government intervention can stimulate the energy of creative enterprises while the excessive intervention may deteriorate the ecosystem of the creative industry clustering areas, bringing about that some of the creative enterprises will be squeezed out from the creative park or become uncreative enterprises.The most important innovation of this paper lies in the connotation excavation and idea finishing of the four core issues. Meanwhile, based on the prospective of ecology, by theoretical researching through interdisciplinary perspective, this paper proposes some theoretical references and practice inspiration for resolving focus contradictions in the development of current creative industry clustering. Mainly for the following four points:Firstly, the paper establishes the theory of implementation mechanism for creative industries under the ecological constraints and expands the causes theory of creative industries clustering; proposes that property of creativity is the reason why creative industries cannot be achieved in the history, and that time requirement, strong information flow and non-prescriptivity (Pan-operation) etc. are the inherent requirement of creativity generation, and also the basic conditions of creativity industrialization and economization; points out that the formation of creative industries needs to have some sort of a modern factors. While market is the economic foundation of creativity and its scale drives the industrialization process of creative industries. The industrial hollowing-out in modern city, whose nature is a market polymer, provides space for creative industries. Moreover, creative industry clustering is essentially a result of bilateral matching of the inherent requirements of idea generation mechanisms and the basis of industrialized economy with the nature and the development of urban economy; creative industries have internal aggregating trend to the city. This conclusion can be applied to measure whether a city suits for the development of creative industries and which region of the city is appropriate for creative industries.Secondly, through the analysis of a unique ecological communities characteristics and the endogenous important mechanism of creative industry clustering, this study reveals the creative industry clustering’s operating rules; proposes that various patterns of creative industry clustering is essentially not an independent inevitable phenomena but the result of natural selection of creative enterprises under the specific ecological environment; different creative enterprises in the same clustering area tend to adopt extremely similar mode, while in different clustering areas, they do not necessarily have a consistent pattern. Therefore, when using successful cases as reference to establish a creative park, the limited conditions behind should also be alerted, for its changes may well lead to that certain models are difficult to copy.Thirdly, the paper proposes that the creative enterprises will form a stable ecological niche, which decides the number of creative enterprises in the clustering area; in addition to creative enterprises, there exist large amounts of intermediary organizations and other types of enterprise. They together form complex ecological community relations and finally determine on what scale creative enterprises can obtain balance. This conclusion proves that according to some scale, investment attraction of creative industries park is feasible, but its scale must meet certain equilibrium conditions.Lastly, this paper puts forward that the equilibrium condition of creative industry clustering stability is not static, and the scale of the creative industry clustering is a dynamic process, which manifests ecological environment improvement or deterioration of creative enterprises. Research shows that policy is the key factor causing ecological deterioration in the clustering area. Thus policymakers can use conclusions of this research for reference to adjust policy measures.What need to be noted is that, this paper only does limited research on several issues such as the realization mechanism of creative industry clustering, endogenous shape, equilibrium condition of scale, ecological environment improvement and deterioration mechanism etc.; due to that this is just a preliminary study, this paper offers limited theoretical explanatory capability and provides more for future exploration direction. So it is better to pay attention to the questions proposed by this paper rather than its conclusions. The real intention of this paper is to describe the connotation of the four core issues together with its complete train of thought, thinking its conclusions just process byproducts. In this sense, this problem is more important than the answer. The problem is eternal, while conclusion is always specific.