Parasitism or Symbiosis? A Selection of R&D Strategy From the Perspective of Responsibility Paradox

The innovation ecosystem advocates both enterprise value and social value. How to make the most beneficial decisions to promote the development of enterprise and system while fulfilling social responsibilities? From the perspective of the paradox of social responsibility, a differential game model of innovation research and development among enterprises in the innovation ecosystem is constructed. The paper analyses the impact of multiple factors on innovation ability and revenue. Including: the subsidy from government, the cost of enterprise and additional benefits from social effect. The conclusions are as follows:(1) Moderate implementation of social responsibility can improve the technical level, social effect and income of innovation system. To achieve the goal of symbiotic evolution of innovation ecosystem, it is recommended that the proportion of core corporate earnings should be higher than one third. (2)For the government, moderate subsidies are very helpful to improve the enthusiasm of technological innovation and social responsibility practice of enterprises. Moreover, the influence on the supporting enterprises (which is in the weak position) is more significant. But the rate needs to be kept within the range of (0, 2/3). Otherwise it will encourage “free rider” behavior and cause the system to evolve into a parasitic imbalance; (3) The social effect is a positive circular effect. It will increase overall revenue with R&D level of core technology. The interaction between them can promote the symbiotic evolution of the innovation ecosystem;(4) In the symbiotic innovation ecosystem, the profit ratio of core enterprises decreases, but the overall profit value increases.