Decentralized multi-agent collaborative innovation platform for new energy vehicle core technology breakthrough with digital empowerment: From the perspective of prospect theory

• Published in: Heliyon Vol. 9; no. 3; p. e14553
• Main Authors: Wang, Shujie, Liu, Qin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2023; Elsevier
• Subjects: China; Core technology of new energy vehicles; Decentralized platform; Digital empowerment; energy; evolution; income; Multi-agent collaborative innovation; Prospect theory; China; Prospect theory; Digital empowerment; Decentralized platform; Multi-agent collaborative innovation; Core technology of new energy vehicles
• ISSN: 2405-8440; 2405-8440
• DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14553

Under the background of digital economy and energy crisis, based on the theory of digital empowerment and prospect theory, aiming at the problems of inefficient collaborative innovation mode, long principal-agent chain, imperfect collaborative innovation mechanism and insufficient digital collaborative innovation degree of the core technology of new energy vehicles, this study constructs a decentralized multi-agent collaborative tripartite evolutionary game model with the participation of government building platform, new energy enterprises and academic research institutions, analyzes the evolution law and key factors, and finally compares the examples of the United States, China and European countries. Results show that: (1) Government subsidies should meet the sum of the strategic income difference and the credibility income is greater than the subsidies to enterprises and research institutions; (2) The subsidy structure and innovation performance show an inverted U-shaped structure. The management mechanism of platform should be optimized; (3) Government should improve the threshold for innovators to enter the decentralized new energy vehicle core technology breakthrough platform, and the contract maintenance strength is conducive; (4) The innovation subject has a dynamic income cost distribution coefficient, and reasonable control of the income and cost sharing coefficient is important; (5) Digital empowerment can make the above four mechanisms achieve dynamic optimization iteration and achieve better equilibrium solutions. Finally, practical countermeasures for the government are put forward, which improves the theoretical research and practical exploration. •The operation mechanism of decentralized platform is deeply explored from four aspects : incentive and supervision mechanism, threshold setting intensity, contract maintenance intensity of innovation subject, and distribution of income and cost.•The prospect theory is used to improve the above mechanism, and the perceived benefit of the subject is measured, so as to improve the deviation of the traditional benefit matrix.•Explore how to achieve a better equilibrium solution of the above four mechanisms through digital empowerment.•Combined with the actual cases of the United States, China and European countries, complete the differential assignment analysis and discussion.