Abstract:     The Chinese-style innovation is currently going through a crucial phase of transition from “low-quality and low-efficiency” to “high-quality and high-efficiency”. The rapid development of digital technology has brought disruptive changes to Chinese-style innovations, becoming a significant driving force in accelerating it. Based on the innovation ecosystem driven by digital technology, this paper followed the evolutionary approach of “technology empowerment---resource constraints---path realization” to reveal the mechanisms and implementation paths of the Chinese-style innovations empowered by digital technology. The main findings of this paper are as follows: Firstly, it defined the significant characteristics of Chinese-style innovation and extracted the mechanism of digital technology empowered Chinese-style innovation, which is based on the pattern that local market serves as the application scenario, institutional innovation as the driving force, a complete industrial foundation as the support, regional element connectivity as the breakthrough, user value as the orientation, and rapid decision-making as the approach. Secondly, it analyzed the constraints faced by Chinese-style innovations, including a shortage of basic research talents, difficulties in commercializing technological achievements, and the unsustainability of the industrial chain and value chain. Thirdly, it proposed an implementation path for enhancing the quality and upgrading of the Chinese-style innovations by focusing on heterogeneous and multi-level demands, leveraging industrial digitization and digital industrialization, and fostering collaborative efforts among various stakeholders such as the government, industries, and enterprises. This paper also has some significant implications and references for the theory and practice of Chinese-style innovation as well as the high-quality development of the digital economy in China.

Key words: digital technology, Chinese-style innovation, implementation path