Technical Study Of Ecological Adaptability And Co-evolution

Human society has entered the era of knowledge economy, in which competition amongnations, regions and enterprises is becoming increasingly fierce and the winners depend moreand more on the strengths of technological advantages. During our national economicdevelopment, especially during the important period of current economic transformation anddevelopment, technology innovation play so an important role that agencies at all levels such asindustry, research institution and government are paying growingly attention to the role oftechnological innovation.In recent years, technological innovation has constantly enhanced the accumulation ofmaterial wealth on quantity and quality greatly, but compared with developed countries ourcountry’s innovative power is definitely still very weak，besides, the localization technologicalinnovation theories used to guide innovation practice in reality are notably lack.If surveying carefully the living environment of technology and its carriers such as products,services etc, we indeed find that the world of technology has the similar living phenomenon tothat of nature. In the world of technologies, none of the technology exists isolatedly, but differenttechnologies and its living environment relate and restrict mutually. From the perspective oftechnological ecology and using the theories of ecology, technology evolutionism and systemscience and so on, the issues of technology’s ecological adaptation and the co-evolutionmechanisms are explored in depth, furthermore, an empirical test for factors that affecttechnology development is provided based on the research on of related enterprises in ShandongProvince. When solving the problems mentioned above, this study doesn’t only focus on thecross-use of the multi-disciplinary knowledge, but also roots in the national technologyinnovation practice, the research results in this paper is undoubtedly meaningful both in theoryand in practice.Beginning with the components of technology ecology and basic conceptions which haverelevance to it such as technology population, technology community, technological niche,technology ecological factors and technology ecology environment etc, technology’s ecologicalcharacteristics and function features like endogeneity, selectivity, stability and adaptability arefirstly discussed. Complex adaptation of technology, viewed from the adaptation of livingcreatures, is expounded and its two dimensions are defined that are the adaptation amongtechnologies and the adaptation among technologies and its environment. Then this thesisthoroughly analyzes the factors affecting technology’s ecological adaptation and constructs formulas to scale how much a certain technology adapt to other technologies and its environment.As follows, the conception and mechanism of technology co-evolution among differenttechnology elements and among theirs living environments in technology ecology are statedprofoundly. Next, this paper conducts a profound exposition about three co-evolution modeswhich include self-adaptive co-evolution, competitive co-evolution, complementary symbioticco-evolution. In technological ecosystem, co-evolution is the main form of technology’sevolution and an important force promoting the technological system to the more advanced andorderly state. The fifth chapter is mainly the empirical part of the thesis. In this part, throughsurveying a host of technology-intensive enterprises in chemical, electronic, mechanical,pharmaceutical and other industries, empirical analysis on of the effects which technology’secological factors, natural factors and ecological relationship among technologies have ontechnology development’s performance is conducted in order to explore the factors that affectenterprises’technology development. The results of the research show that: technologyecological factors, habitat factors and symbiotic relationship among technologies havesignificantly positive effects on enterprises’technology development performance, but the effectsof the competitive relationship among technologies on the enterprises’technology developmentperformance is not obvious.With all the aspects mentioned in the study, we can get an enlightenment at least, that is,in order to develop and manage technology more efficiently, both enterprises and researchinstitutions and governments at all levels should respect the law of development of technologyand also should take various factors of technology ecology into consideration.