Resource integration is essential for supply chain innovation ecosystems to achieve value co-creation and ensure efficient operations. However, these ecosystems often face challenges such as underutilization of internal and external resources and fragmented resource-sharing networks. Establishing effective mechanisms for resource integration has become a critical priority. Given the complexity of decision-making among various participants—shaped by dynamic interactions and multiple uncertainties—this study employs evolutionary game theory to model the integration management of innovative resources among a supply chain’s core enterprise, cooperative enterprise A, and cooperative enterprise B. The model analyzes the behavioral dynamics of these entities and conducts stability assessments. Through numerical simulations, the study explores the system’s evolutionary trajectory and equilibrium states. Our findings indicate that resource integration is the realization process and catalytic mechanism of value co-creation, the synergistic benefit parameters constitute the potential space and distribution rules for value co-creation, and the incentive and punishment mechanisms are the strategic levers that guide the evolution of the system. Finally, from a mechanism design perspective, this study examines the role of core enterprises in fostering value co-creation within the innovation ecosystem and proposes policy recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of resource integration.
Zhu et al. (Thu,) studied this question.