构建生态创新网络是全球化和绿色化持续推进背景下企业保持全球竞争力、走向高质量发展之路的有效途径。本文从创新协作网络和创新生态系统两种理论观点出发,以生态创新网络为研究对象,分析其内涵、特征并基于创新三螺旋理论构建生态创新网络模型。同时,结合超循环理论探讨生态创新网络的进化逻辑,为制造业企业生态创新网络的构建和绿色高效发展提供有价值的借鉴。研究发现:生态创新网络包括政府、大学和企业三类主体,三类主体在生态创新领域的螺旋交互形成正向的生态创新格局;创新协作网络和创新生态系统两大模块分别侧重绿色技术知识共享和可持续发展综合商业模式构建;内部网络(政治网络、科学网络、产业网络等)和外部网络(金融网络、中介网络、专业网络等)共同维持生态创新网络的平稳运行。同时生态创新网络具有开放性、生态化、高效率、动态性的特征。生态创新网络遵循从反应循环到催化循环再到超循环的进化逻辑。创新协作网络和创新生态系统作为重要的催化循环在网络中的联合演化、共生耦合推动形成生态创新网络的超循环,而相关管理机制催化生态创新网络从反应循环、催化循环到超循环的进化,并持续推进生态创新网络的优化升级,形成更大范围、更高效率的网络结构。研究结论丰富了制造业生态创新网络的理论体系,并为新形势下制造业企业创新发展路径提供有益借鉴。

Under the new background of institutional opening up, the proposition of China's goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality and its high-quality development goals determine that the construction of the eco-innovation network is imperative. The eco-innovation network is conducive to the cooperation between different enterprises to carry out green R&D activities and is crucial for manufacturing enterprises to integrate and use the complex ecosystem of environmental protection technologies. From the two theoretical perspectives of innovation collaboration network and innovation ecosystem, this paper took the eco-innovation network as the research object, analyzed its connotation and characteristics, and constructed an ecological innovation network model based on the triple helix theory of innovation. Then, the evolutionary logic of the eco-innovation network was discussed based on the hyper-cycle theory, which provides a valuable reference for the construction of the ecological innovation network of manufacturing enterprises and for the green and efficient development.

The main conclusions of this research include the following aspects:

First, the eco-innovation network is an informal organization based on open innovation, with green ecology as the core, which aims to tap the advantages of all parties to achieve efficient ecological innovation and improve the organization's environmental benefits and sustainable development capabilities.

Second, the eco-innovation network includes three types of subjects: government, university, and enterprise. The three types of subjects are the key components of the eco-innovation network, and their spiral interaction in the field of eco-innovation forms a positive ecological innovation pattern; The innovation collaboration network and innovation ecosystem jointly form two supporting modules of the eco-innovation network, which are controlled by universities and core enterprises respectively. The innovation collaboration network is committed to the creation of clean and green production technologies and knowledge sharing; The innovation ecosystem focuses on building a comprehensive business model and management model for sustainable development. The eco-innovation network includes internal network (political network, scientific network, industrial network, etc.) and external network (financial network, intermediary network, professional network, etc.). The internal network is a strong relationship network formed by the three core subjects, leading the operation of the ecological innovation network; The external network is a kind of auxiliary weak relationship network, which mainly serves the smooth operation of the internal network.

Third, the eco-innovation network is open, ecological, efficient and dynamic. The open feature reflects the fuzzy boundary characteristics of the eco-innovation network, which is conducive to the environmental adaptation and extension of the eco-innovation network; the ecological feature reflects that the core objective of the eco-innovation network is to increase the value of eco-innovation, aiming to promote the research, development, production, and application of eco-innovation products; the efficient feature reflects the high-efficiency use of eco-innovation resources and more output of eco-innovation products by the eco-innovation network; the dynamic feature reflects the organizational flexibility of the eco-innovation network, which is conducive to the adjustment of its organizational structure and the relationship between its members.

Fourth, the eco-innovation network follows the evolutionary logic from the reaction cycle to the catalytic cycle and then to the hypercycle. The joint evolution and symbiotic coupling of innovation collaboration networks and innovation ecosystems, as important catalytic cycles in the network, promote the formation of the hypercycle of the eco-innovation network, while the relevant management mechanisms catalyze the evolution of the eco-innovation network from the reaction cycle, the catalytic cycle to the hypercycle, and continue to promote the optimization and upgrading of the eco-innovation network, forming a wider and more efficient network structure.

Finally, the paper put forward relevant policy recommendations. For example, we should correctly understand the triple helix development pattern of government, university, and enterprise in the eco-innovation network, and pay attention to the formation of an eco-innovation consortium guided by governments, supported by universities and driven by enterprises; we should focus on building two modules of innovation collaboration network and innovation ecosystem in advance; we should pay attention to the relationship between the internal network and the external network in the eco-innovation network, and cultivate good conditions for the construction of the eco-innovation network through the selection and arrangement of the system and the cultivation of organizational practices and culture; and we should also focus on the creation and optimization of the management mechanism within the organization, and promote the evolution of the eco-innovation network.