About the Authors

Ying Huang

Affiliation School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

Yi Zhang

Affiliations School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China, Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia

Jan Youtie

Affiliation Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, United States of America

Alan L. Porter

Affiliation School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, United States of America

Xuefeng Wang

wxf5122@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH AP. Performed the experiments: YH YZ. Analyzed the data: YH XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH YZ JY AP XW. Wrote the paper: YH YZ JY.