Abstract: Under the new normal, our economy needs to promote industrial upgrading and economic restructuring through innovation. This paper conducts an exploratory theoretical construction analysis based on the case of the Jinji Lake Corridor for Startups, which is considered as the maker space cluster in Suzhou Industrial Park, to explain the internal logical structure of the “path selection”, “mechanism of the chain” and “ecological system”. The findings are that the activity of maker space assisting starting a business is merely the starting point of the whole mechanism chain, and that in the favoring innovatively entrepreneurial environment, the interaction mechanism of innovation net, entrepreneurship resource and technological industry will bring unique competitive advantages to the regional economy. It will also become the continuous driving force of the transformation and upgrading of regional industry.

Key words: maker space cluster, transformation of regional industry, innovation net, technological industry