It is important to clarify how to improve the urban status of green technology innovation networks to bridge the development gap of green technology innovation between cities and realize the national “double carbon” goal. Based on the big data of firm-level green technology patents from 2015 to 2021, the study depicts China’s green technology innovation urban network, constructs a theoretical model to enhance the urban status of the green technology innovation network from three aspects: “supply and demand side” business environment, urban administrative level, and economic development level, and uses dynamic QCA method to conduct empirical research. The study found that: first, the green technology innovation urban network has the structure of “interaction inside and outside the circle” with the characteristics of mobility and stability, but the network status of city nodes is unbalanced, and the edge cities are still facing the dilemma of insufficient network embeddedness. Second, the “supply and demand side” business environment, urban administrative level, and economic development level are the multiple concurrent factors that enhance the urban status of the green technology innovation network. The “administrative level” dominance and the “economic level - business environment” synergy are the two equivalent logics to achieve high urban network status. The “supply pull” and “supply-demand linkage” of the “supply and demand side” business environment are their marginal and core conditions, respectively. Third, for the network entities in different positions, the feasible paths to improve the urban status of green technology innovation networks with the business environment are different. The core cities are dominated by the “factor supply side” business environment, while the edge cities rely on the balanced linkage of the “supply and demand side” business environment or the strong driving of the “factor supply side” business environment. On the one hand, under the network-based urban spatial structure, the study provides policy references for the country to build a new development pattern of inter-city green technology innovation cooperation and integration. On the other hand, the findings put forward multiple feasible paths for cities to enhance the green technology innovation network status, and provide empirical evidence for network edge cities to utilize the business environment to mitigate their difficulties in improving urban network status due to their low administrative level and economic level.