Abstract: In the Internet age, the involvement of professional suppliers plays a vital role in enterprise innovation. Based on the shortage of existing researches on the mode of suppliers’ involvement in enterprise technology innovation and the evaluation mechanism, this paper firstly discusses the collaborative innovation mode that module suppliers get involved in the end-to-end business process under internet circumstances. Then a fuzzy collaborative evaluation methodology is taken to deal with the evaluation and selection of strategic module supplier. In this methodology, the whole process evaluation indices are defined; a fuzzy number concept is utilized to describe corresponding evaluation value, and then comes to the evaluation from key department representatives of enterprise. Additionally, in order to ensure qualified strategic module supplier in and un-qualified resources out, this paper presents a management mechanism framework featuring “abiding by contract, win-win, profit-sharing, etc.” to promote the sustainable operation of strategic module supplier. Finally, a Qingdao Haier refrigerator case is used to illustrate and verify the feasibility and adaptability of the theory proposed in this paper.

Key words: collaborative innovation, modularity, strategic module supplier, fuzzy collaborative evaluation