Evolutionary Analysis of Innovation Development in a Metropolitan Area from a Symbiosis Perspective: Empirical Research on the Shanghai Metropolitan Area

Table 1

Symbiotic relationships.

Symbiotic coefficients	Symbiotic relationships	Definition
	Reciprocal symbiosis	Population i and population j reinforce each other for mutual development
	Mutual inhibition symbiosis	Population i and population j inhibit each other and hinder each other’s development
	Independent symbiosis	Population i and population j are independent of each other and do not affect each other’s development
or	Parasitic symbiosis	Population i promotes the development of population j, while population j inhibits the development of population i