Implications from Swarm Simulation on Industrial Clusters’ Evolution

This paper argues that the phenomenon of industrial clusters is a kind of complex and dynamic process. With the heterogeneity of firms involved in clusters and their open connections with external environment being reasonably justified, the paper thinks that the evolution of industrial clusters should be observed and studied by the approach of computer simulation. Some factors from inside or outside, local or global, work together to drive the growth and decline of industrial clusters. Some implications are drawn through the analysis of the results by simulations designed on java-swarm platform. Suggestions are proposed accordingly.