Relationship Between Industrial Competition Network and Innovation Performance of Specialized Towns in Guangdong Province

The specialized town is one of the characteristic industrial organization forms, the representative form of China’s industrial clusters and the main component of the regional economy in Guangdong province. They are all in traditional manufacturing industries, which causes the significant competition among the specialized towns. This paper adopts the complex network method and adds the geographical distance into the general market model, aiming to optimize the measure of competition. It analyzes the network structures and the influence on the innovation performance of specialized towns. The research results show that the competition network of specialized towns in Guangdong has a small world effect; whether it is alone or in combination with the intensity of inward points, there is a significant inverted U-shaped relationship between the intensity of the outward point and the innovation performance.