Network Properties of a Typical Self-employment Agglomeration

Abstract

China's mass entrepreneurship and innovation policy have inspired many individuals to join incumbent agglomerations to supplement their resource insufficiency. Based on the ties of kinship and township relations among a typical agglomeration, this paper explored the individuals' preferential attachment rules and analyzes the network properties. The main findings included: self-employment agglomeration with given preferential attachment rules has a large average degree; this kind of network is scalefree, and it follows power-law degree distribution; clustering coefficient is very large; the average path length is short and it follows a power-law distribution. Our findings demonstrated that this typical self-employment agglomeration is a kind of complex network. We also discussed the mechanism of complex network's advantages on selfemployment activities.